Example sentences of "is associated [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Evasion of Voluntary Agreement : Sports sponsorship blatantly circumvents the Voluntary Agreement 's provision that ‘ advertisements should not imply that smoking is associated with success in sport ’ .
2 Service industries predominate for employment in the island offices , shops , banks , garages etc , as well as the whole infrastructure which is associated with tourism .
3 Treatment with the immunosuppressive agent cyclosporin A is associated with pancreatotoxicity , nephrotoxicity , and hepatotoxicity .
4 Metaphorically sameness is associated with perversion in an almost Augustinian sense : ‘ the artifice of sameness ’ involves a process of ‘ turning away , of deviation , and of reduction ’ .
5 Rarely , though , has it been demonstrated that only one species is associated with dispersal , in contrast to several examples known of one-to-one pollinator-pollinated relationships .
6 Order is associated with regularity and uniformity , that is with repetitions of the same or similar elements .
7 As we have seen , femininity is associated with darkness , infinity , the body , emotion or unreason and so on .
8 The pathogenesis of infection with adult Strongylus spp. is associated with damage to the large intestinal mucosa due to the feeding habits of the worms ( P1.III ) and , to some extent , to the disruption caused by emergence of young adults into the intestine following completion of their parasitic larval development .
9 It does show that even a 26-week gestation baby has , at least within its spinal cord , a mechanism which is associated with tenderness in adults .
10 Induction of remission is associated with inhibition or a decrease in the formation of the inflammatory mediators or , alternatively , may be achieved by blocking their specific receptors .
11 The first wave of aggregation induced by adrenaline is associated with uptake of calcium by platelets , and it has been suggested that a localised flux of calcium into the platelet plasma membrane enables the platelets to stick together ( Gerrard et al , 1981 ) .
12 If the biochemical change is the consequence simply of the experience of tasting the bead , then the level of fucose incorporation in E should be the same as that in D and F , and higher than in all the water groups A — C. If , however , the increased incorporation is associated with memory , then E should be equivalent to B and lower than either D or F. We needed , of course , to repeat the experiment with enough birds — eventually , a dozen in each group — to be sure of the results — but when we analysed the data , they were unequivocal , and I ca n't resist showing them in Figure 10.8 .
13 In contrast , differentiation and cessation of proliferation in some human colon cancer cell lines is associated with down-regulation of Na + /H + exchange .
14 Mean labelling indices for upper crypt compartments 3 and 45 in the 22 patients in whom polyps recurred were significantly higher ( respectively p<0.05 and p<0.01 ) than those of the 33 without recurrence suggesting that an upward shift of the crypt 's replicative compartment is associated with polyp recurrence .
15 Such amenorrhoea is associated with bone loss , and this can be prevented by the judicious use of cyclical hormones .
16 H pylori is associated with gastritis and peptic ulcer and possibly with non-ulcer dyspepsia , so both patients may have had chronic infection .
17 To take a particular instance , we have seen that the form of question with how ? is associated with predicate qualifiers but not with clausal adjectives , and also that the verb believe will only be compatible with the clausal adjective ; it follows that the second part of the exchange in ( 70 ) should be odd or ungrammatical , which is indeed so : ( 70 ) LECTURER : The Venetians believed their proposals generous … ( interrupted by sound of electric drill next door ) MEMBER OF AUDIENCE : * How did the Venetians believe the proposals ?
18 In addition , H pylori eradication speeds up ulcer healing and is associated with healing of previously refractory ulcers .
19 Sleep-deprived subjects have been shown to have lower amplitude CNVs , and it could be assumed that this is associated with inattention or poor preparation for making a response .
20 Irrespective of whether a horse 's bad habit is associated with anxiety or expectation , it is often best dealt with by avoiding the situation in which it appears ; until the horse 's anxiety or expectation is reduced , and a new habit of desirable behaviour has begun to form .
21 The aim here would be to enable the patient to recognize the common precipitants of the feelings which precede cutting and then to take appropriate action to prevent these feelings mounting up to the state of extreme tension which is associated with cutting .
22 The shorter half-life of 235 U results in it having a much lower abundance at present relative to 238 U. Because U and Th are believed to have similar distribution coefficients during mantle melting , a large fractionation in U/Pb is associated with change of similar magnitude in Th/Pb .
23 At this time of year we receive many such representations , but they must be weighed against the annual death toll of 110,000 people which is associated with smoking .
24 Its criteria of a subject 's effectiveness , for instance , are generally success at prestigious work , which is commonly associated with masculinity , and success in personal relationships , particularly long-term heterosexual and parental relationships , which is associated with femininity .
25 Dischidia nummularia has lens-shaped leaves with no ant-association , while D. parvifolia in the Malay Peninsula with similar leaves is associated with Crematogaster ants , which , in the mountains , make tunnels at the bases of Leptospermum flavescens trees and take Dischidia seeds inside such that plants germinate in the insect frass there , such that their distribution is thereby associated with that of the tree .
26 This perception of the low social esteem in which the housewife role is held , charted in the previous chapter , is associated with work dissatisfaction .
27 Perhaps a lack of supportive parent-child relationship is associated with childhood problems , but only if the person continues to lack a close supportive relationship in later life will psychiatric problems continue or recur .
28 This might , for example , reveal that a child who appeared to be inattentive or a slow learner was in fact showing symptoms of specific learning difficulties ( e.g. dyslexia ) or a hearing impairment — possibly an intermittent one such as is associated with otitis media .
29 Although this basic classification will suffice for the vast majority of hypertensive diabetics , it is extremely important to delineate the numerically small percentage of those whose elevated blood pressure is associated with neuropathy as these will present an additional therapeutic challenge .
30 It is stated that the moneys have to be additional to any funding by a member country which qualifies for assistance — hence the word ’ additionality ’ , which is associated with funding .
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