Example sentences of "were [adv] relate [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Studies of five individual multi-plant firms by Peck and Townsend ( 1984 , 1987 ) showed how their reductions in employment were fundamentally related to changes in fairly specific market niches , but how the effect of any one factor in the future of a factory was usually contingent upon others .
2 The British Journal of Educational Psychology published an article on the negative correlation between fertility and intelligence by Gerald O'Hanlon in 1940 and an attack by Charlotte Fleming on the assumption that socio-economic level and intelligence were highly related in 1943 The Times Educational Supplement reviewed Maguiness 's book Environment and Heredity without querying the causal assumption that intelligence was mainly inherited .
3 First , they were necessarily related to the existing structure — they could not predict the performance of a new structure based on different principles .
4 Farm service and apprenticeship , two especially common reasons for relocation , were obviously related to young persons .
5 Waist-hip ratio , age and body mass index were separately related to probability of conception per cycle .
6 Hunter realized both that ‘ secondary ’ sexual characters were functionally related to fighting or display and that their extent varied with ecology .
7 The results show that variations in profit margins were directly related to fluctuations in the level of demand for architectural services between 1971 and 1988 but that the liberalisations which occurred after 1982 have also acted to reduce the size of profit margins .
8 ‘ We believe that this institution 's problems were directly related to the collapse of oil prices in 1986 and other related economic forces affecting the south west at the time . ’
9 These doubts about his work were directly related to his predicament in the last months of 1939 .
10 In this patient symptoms were directly related to anaemia .
11 As we have already said , a creation myth which was symbolically true would have to convey that neither woman nor man was present before the other ; moreover , not that they were created out of dust but that they were integrally related to the rest of the animal creation .
12 For example , Everett ( 1978 ) used multiple regression analysis to analyse 2,816 questionnaires concerning people 's wildlife preferences , and found that these were positively related to the number of colours and brightness of different species .
13 Too many titles contained terms which were clearly related to terms contained in thesis titles , such as common geographical and stratigraphical names ; or regional studies including narrower geographical areas previously studied , but whose precise relationships to the Ph D research became more and more uncertain .
14 Too many titles contained terms which were clearly related to terms contained in thesis titles , such as common geographical and stratigraphical names ; or regional studies including narrower geographical areas previously studied , but whose precise relationships to the Ph D research became more and more uncertain .
15 Severe complications of acute pancreatitis and duration of ileus were also related to the CRP .
16 Drs Malhotra and Thorpe , though , took the view that the differences between the anoles were probably related to the differences in their environments , rather than to reproductive isolation , and they set out to prove it .
17 Chief among its descendants , who originally emigrated to America in the mid-17th century , were Thomas Jefferson and Robert E. Lee , who were distantly related through the Isham line .
18 Whilst retaining the right of local authorities to allocate the overall block between individual programmes , block spending grants were now related to ‘ optimum ’ levels of expenditure , with financial penalties imposed on errant authorities .
19 RAWP first used the treatment rates in various categories of disease , but later dropped this since they were strongly related to the availability of the treatment in the region , and thus risked confusing supply factors with need .
20 Whereas rates were indirectly related to income , or at least past income ( in that they were proportional to the value of the home in which people lived ) , the poll tax will take no account of the financial circumstances on whom the tax is levied .
21 These developments within the Cambridge Board were undoubtedly related to the concurrent measurable , irreversible decline in traditional university extension courses provided by the Board of Extra-Mural Studies on a national scale and which by 1939 had reached the point at which there were only five Cambridge university extension centres beyond East Anglia .
22 These types were then related to a range of macro-economic outcomes such as levels of inflation and unemployment .
23 Although the inverted-U and the more specific Yerkes-Dodson law were initially related to task performance generally , they have frequently been assumed to predict the same pattern of results with performance in memory tasks .
24 Consequently , it is not surprising that senior churchmen were sometimes related to each other .
25 Although concentrations of colonic platelet activating factor content were higher ( p<0.01 ) when colonic mucosa displayed cell infiltration , they were neither related to the severity nor the type of inflammatory cells .
26 In these 10 subjects , it was determined whether the non-deglutitive pressure waves in the oesophageal body were temporally related to phase 3 of the migrating motor complex .
27 The people of Azerbaijan sympathized with Turkey , so that domestic collisions were closely related to external threats .
28 The Tyrells of Gipping , for instance , were closely related to the Darcies and through them with other members of the court group .
29 The compromise was a system within which ‘ approved ’ occupational pension schemes were closely related to a new state earnings-related pension scheme ( SERPS ) .
30 Cuvier noticed that the most recently extinct creatures such as the mammoth were closely related to living species .
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