Example sentences of "closely relate to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 By introducing a satellite RNA Ribonucleic Acid ( closely related to DNA ) , it has been possible to establish in a tobacco plant a heritable agent capable of preventing the development of the mosaic virus as it enters the cell .
2 Firstly , after eating a meal gall bladder contraction is closely related to plasma CCK concentrations .
3 The sort of task illustrated above is closely related to estimation tasks .
4 It is the third group which concerns us , since it is closely related to selection methods .
5 It is recommended that there should be a national strategy for the digitisation of materials in research libraries , closely related to user requirements and priorities .
6 They speak a Polabian dialect of the Pomeranian group of Slav languages , closely related to Wendish ( Sorbian ) , Serbian and the vanished Slovincian dialect , all of which are/were related to Polish .
7 Ozone is a gas closely related to oxygen .
8 Twenty-o twenty-two and a hundred and twenty-five I do n't propose to speak to because er they are closely related to Government amendments , but I shall talk about it in another respect , but er seventeen and eighteen are in the theme of what so many Noble Lords have said , including the Noble Lord , Lord , and that is the importance of the local people er being er on these er thes th these these new police authorities and I seek to remove er the five appointed or any appointed people er by the Secretary of State .
9 The orang-utan is the primate most closely related to man ; its lively facial expressions show remarkable similarities to those of humans .
10 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 .
11 Obviously infarct size and subsequent left ventricular function are closely related to prognosis .
12 Behind the industrial revolution were a series of major historical transformations , including the abandonment of popular culture by the European elites after 1500 such that the concept of culture itself became more closely related to hierarchy , but was combined with a growth in literacy and other resources by means of which lower status groups might also gain access to the new high culture ( see Burke 1978 : 270 and Mukerji 1983 for pre-1800 ; Williams 1961 for post-1800 ) .
13 The third defining feature of positivist criminology — pathology — is closely related to differentiation .
14 be closely related to decision making and planning including financial appropriation ;
15 Rather than a bourgeois audience , however , he saw the fabliau as belonging primarily to a seigneurial , aristocratic milieu , and to be closely related to romance precisely as the antithesis of romance ; as being very largely parodic .
16 In what sense are faith and doubt closely related to knowledge ?
17 There are two groups of tropical diseases of importance ; those that are sexually transmitted — chancroid , granuloma inguinale , and lymphogranuloma venereum , and those that , although passed on in a non-sexual fashion , are closely related to syphilis and may be confused with it .
18 The recognition of management techniques underlay a new trend of employing external consultants : a parallel in government , closely related to industry , was the advent of Lord Beeching in British Rail .
19 Thought itself is seen as an energetic process , closely related to life-force energy fields which transmit information patterns to our biophysical cellular receptors , which in turn relay the information to the brain for processing .
20 Stachys macrantha , closely related to betony , is another flower with multiple benefits whether fresh or preserved .
21 On the continents some of this intra-plate volcanic activity is closely related to rift valleys which themselves represent sites of continental rifting where the crust has been stretched and faulted .
22 Patterns of grouping and spatial dispersion are closely related to food resources and foraging strategy and come to constitute the demographic environment within which social selection determining behaviour responsible for mating and rearing strategies occurs .
23 The French psychiatrist Pierre Deniker , records that a substance closely related to promethazine and later known as chlorpromazine was synthesized in 1950 and ‘ would have remained on the shelves had the surgeon and physiologist Henri Laborit not asked the manufacturer for a drug with central effects stronger than those of promethazine ’ .
24 Such hydration expansion commonly occurs in response to changes in relative humidity which , since they are closely related to temperature , may be diumal .
25 In this sense irony is closely related to paradox , which involves the association of conflicting elements within the same statement .
26 Prior to liability management , banks paid interest on comparatively few deposit liabilities and where they did such rates were not always closely related to market rates .
27 Fiegehan and his colleagues ( 1977 ) found age to be closely related to poverty : old people in Britain often subsist on very small incomes indeed .
28 Increases in laminin concentration have been closely related to portal hypertension .
29 Sperber and Wilson ( 1986 ) have used a model of communication which is very closely related to schema theory to explain the concept of relevance .
30 It is closely related to peat and has a relatively low carbon content and high moisture content .
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