Example sentences of "direct relation to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one — the direct antecedent condition — a target sentence had a direct relation to a context sentence presented immediately before it . |
| 2 | However , they do not accord with traditional conceptions of crime — perhaps because many of the offences may be committed in ‘ normal ’ , situations , such as driving a car or conducting a business — and this may tend to obscure their direct relation to the issue of physical safety . |
| 3 | Problems are set chiefly to test your ability to apply the law you know , and the examiner will speedily tire of reading an account of the law that is not brought into direct relation to the problem . |
| 4 | For the verbs which accompany clausal adjectives , however , there is no need for any compatibility at all ( although it may happen to occur if the verb also takes simple objects ) , since the noun phrase here has no direct relation to the verb which it follows but is simply one of the elements assembled within the opaque frontiers of the clause . |
| 5 | The property of springiness is easy enough to detect : it is in direct relation to the speed with which a runner 's foot leaves the surface after contact with the ground . |
| 6 | The verb metaphor is accepted as a complete action in direct relation to the object to which it is applied , while the noun metaphor tends to be divided within itself into proper and figurative terms . |