Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] closely [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emerging concepts about objects are closely linked to the child 's growing understanding of space , spatial relations and the notion of objects and people being located in a common space . |
| 2 | These interpersonal skills are closely connected to the necessary management skills , especially when the assessing practitioner meets conflicting opinions , conflict of interest or simply conflict between individuals . |
| 3 | These activities are closely linked to the populations that they serve , and therefore there are only limited possibilities of interregional redistribution . |
| 4 | These variations between arts are important in themselves and also as a reminder that the social relations of artists are closely related to the technical means of production of each specific art . |
| 5 | They act , in Scott 's phrase ( 1982 , p. 125 ) , as ‘ internal capitalists ’ ; even if they do not hold major shareholdings their rewards are closely tied to company profitability . |
| 6 | Many of these differentiating characteristics are closely linked to personality and can not be homogenized out of existence , although their significance as factors fragmenting proletarian unity can vary widely . |
| 7 | The distribution of these unfamiliar and fascinating animals is closely linked to the effects that geological forces have had on the land in which they live . |
| 8 | Most interestingly , all parthenogenesis microorganisms are closely related to cytoplasmic incompatibility bacteria , which are found in diverse insect taxa including beetles ( Coleoptera ) , butterflies ( Lepidoptera ) , flies ( Diptera ) and wasps ( Hymenoptera ) . |
| 9 | The families which ran the pubs were closely related to the rest of the community . |
| 10 | The aim is to produce an unsophisticated system in which workload related budgets concerning financial and manpower allocations and full overhead costs are closely related to workable service objectives , against which performance and progress can be compared . ’ |
| 11 | Nor can the hoards be closely related to the campaigns of the war . |
| 12 | The stance most widely adopted by politicians , demographers , and economists was closely related to some of the eugenist arguments of the inter-war years : namely that the ageing of the population would create an unbalanced ratio of workers to dependents , with severe social and economic consequences . |
| 13 | Where bank affairs are closely tied to the fortunes of their leading customers through shared group affiliation , the lending bank and the borrowing company are bound to the same fate which makes unilateral changes in loan terms much less likely . |
| 14 | The people who make these panels are closely related to estate agents , in other words they are a lower life-form . |
| 15 | Women 's rights are closely linked to the rights of the poor … because it is the poor women who especially bear the overwhelming burdens of providing for the survival of the family … |
| 16 | Japanese farmers were closely tied to the vagaries of the world markets . |
| 17 | This source of implementation problems is closely related to another of some importance . |
| 18 | The Diploma in Advanced Legal Studies is closely tied to the LL.M. and M.Sc. , although it can stand as an independent qualification when it consists of study and examination in three courses selected from the LL.M or M.Sc. |
| 19 | This paradox about being able to predict one 's actions is closely related to the problem I mentioned earlier : Will the ultimate theory determine that we come to the right conclusions about the ultimate theory ? |
| 20 | The question of the uniqueness of the initial conditions is closely related to that of the arbitrariness of the local physical laws : One would not regard a theory as complete if it contained a number of adjustable parameters such as masses or coupling constants that could be given any values one liked . |
| 21 | The general consensus now would be that , even if systems of kinship terms are closely linked to social systems , the link is not as simple as Morgan Made out . |
| 22 | Although Northern Ireland 's economic prospects are closely linked to those of the rest of the United Kingdom , the Northern Ireland economy has fared better than that of almost any other United Kingdom region in recent years . |
| 23 | The ideological and political levels are closely related to the economic . |
| 24 | In a number of influential papers he has argued that people 's political alignments are closely connected to their relationships to the state . |
| 25 | Since the pragmatic use of these terms is closely tied to the context in which a discourse occurs , we shall now investigate what aspects of context have to be considered in undertaking the analysis of discourse . |
| 26 | Searle 's ( 1969 ) treatment of reference as a particular species of action ( rather than as some mysterious correspondence , however indirect , between words and sets of objects ) also indirectly advanced the view that indexicals are closely linked to other kinds of reference . |
| 27 | Termites are closely related to those ancient insects , the cockroaches . |
| 28 | In this period , the press and the political parties experienced their most intimate relationships : newspapers were closely allied to the many political factions which dominated late 19th century politics . |
| 29 | The people of Azerbaijan sympathized with Turkey , so that domestic collisions were closely related to external threats . |
| 30 | Another possible explanagion of the association between the PGC RFLP and gastric ulcer disease is that the PGC gene is not itself responsible for the predisposition but one of the responsible genes is closely linked to it . |