Example sentences of "[be] [adv] closely [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where tax-free reserves are so closely linked to capital investment , the small firm finds a greater proportion of profits subject to tax and may therefore be subject to a higher marginal rate of taxation . |
| 2 | Evidence from successful Japanese companies has suggested that production costs are often closely connected to management practices and operations , rather than the scale of operations within plants . |
| 3 | The conference will seek to identify ways in which emerging technology can be more closely geared to end-user needs . |
| 4 | The modernist council properties have long been one of the strongest fiefdoms of professionalized architecture , being extremely closely linked to development planning and local political interests , and subject to the intervention of both civic authorities and the state . |
| 5 | As the language of mathematics is so tightly defined , the ability to use mathematics to communicate in a particular language may take longer to develop than we would expect , and this may lead us to underestimate pupils ' grasp of ideas , particularly since language is so closely related to culture . |
| 6 | The time course of resolution of the hypergastrinaemia during antibacterial treatment indicates that it is more closely related to resolution of the antral gastritis than to suppression of bacterial urease activity . |
| 7 | Sweeney stands against those whose personal taste is too closely linked to morality in a falsely genteel way . |
| 8 | Sperber and Wilson ( 1986 ) have used a model of communication which is very closely related to schema theory to explain the concept of relevance . |