Example sentences of "were linked to the " in BNC.

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1 Although both were linked to the PKI , there is no evidence that either of them had knowledge of the events leading to the coup .
2 Marriage and the family were therefore not unquestionable institutions , independent of history and society , they were linked to the economic system , to the political system , to the class system .
3 In the 1970s , partly due to growing criticisms of marginality , which were linked to the increased strength of dependency theories , attention switched away from housing to focus on problems of employment and the economic structure .
4 The tanks at Green Lane were built c1887 and were linked to the Ledsam Street tank .
5 There were several contentious rights of way matters still outstanding , some of which were linked to the bypass .
6 Little evidence is presented that would support the claim that the moral panics associated with permissiveness were linked to the latter panic over street crime .
7 For example , it has often been observed ( by no means only by Marxists ) that the ideas of Beccaria — and the Enlightenment generally — were linked to the interests of the bourgeois class who were gaining in economic and political power at the time but still needed legal protection against the old ruling class , the landowning aristocracy who retained a corrupt control of the levers of state power ( Beccaria , 1963 : xxi ; Taylor et al. , 1973 : ch. 1 ) .
8 Pleasure and enjoyment were seen as natural , legitimate and God-given , provided they were not excessive and were linked to the desire for procreation .
9 However , since Brezhnev 's proposals for the Gulf were linked to the broader issue of the Indian Ocean ‘ zone of peace ’ Soviet officials still made an effort to gain support for them from the Indian Ocean Third World states and the non-aligned nations in general .
10 The quarries were situated just below Upper Halling and were linked to the factory by a tramway which crossed the A 228 by level crossing just south of the Church and then passed across the S.E. Railway line by means of a bridge .
11 The reasons for this were linked to the financial relationship between central and local government .
12 The government in January 1990 gave up its attempt to join the Union monétaire ouest africaine ( UMOA ) , whose members ' currencies were linked to the French franc , and decided to turn to Portugal for help to make its currency convertible .
13 Later , German Defence Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg was quoted as saying that changes in NATO force structures were linked to the strengthening of Europe 's role in the alliance .
14 The disturbances and the ministerial changes were linked to the continuing power struggle in Azerbaijan [ see also pp. 38827-28 ] .
15 Long hours of sedentary work were linked to the consumption which made the poor tailor the " wretched emblem of death " .
16 It is suggested that the first of these reasons would no longer be valid if litigated again ( see Multiservice Bookbinding Ltd v Marden [ 1979 ] Ch 84 , where Browne-Wilkinson J upheld a mortgage under which the interest payments were linked to the value of the Swiss franc , cited with apparent approval by Lord Denning MR in Staffordshire Area Health Authority v South Staffordshire Waterworks Co [ 1978 ] 3 All ER 769 ) .
17 A reconstruction of how the burial mound must have looked four thousand years ago has led experts to believe the ceremonies were linked to the appearance of the midsummer sun .
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