Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] relate to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Problems which may arise in any family are those which may be seen as related to the Oedipal situation — the sexual attachment which arises between parent and child and which is not always worked through adequately . |
| 2 | Feelings about these different tasks do not seem to be dependent primarily on temperament or on personal background ; rather they emerge as related to the kind of conditions under which the tasks are performed . |
| 3 | The amount of the pension is not related actuarial to the sums which each recipient has actually paid in contribution ; but the right to receive it is treated as flowing from the possession of a contribution record , and indeed the pension rates are represented as related to the contribution rates , assuming contribution over a full working life . |
| 4 | ( 1985 : 687 ) suggest something quite similar to Jespersen — " the infinitive marker to may be viewed as related to the spatial preposition to through metaphorical connection " — and illustrate this by the series : How far this metaphorical connection extends is not specified , but it is significant that both Quirk et al. |
| 5 | The calibration is based on CACI 's long experience in the field of catchment area study across all retail sectors , and is therefore best viewed as relating to the catchment area of the centre as a whole . |
| 6 | However , if one tries to envelop the noun phrase and the adjective in a single question , then , on the one hand , the result will usually or always be grammatical , because the verbs occurring in this construction can of course stand as ordinary transitive verbs , but , on the other , the question form will naturally be taken as related to the ordinary transitive verb with a simple noun phrase object — with a corresponding alteration in the meaning expressed ; ( 23 ) is an attempt to put such a question : ( 23 ) his sister set the owl free what did his sister set ? to which suitable answers could include the mousetrap or the first four questions . |
| 7 | It may be supposed that Cole 's comments refer only to the production of goods for retail in the Consumers , Movement 's own stores , and are not to be read as relating to the more general development of the industrial co-operative sector . |