Example sentences of "[Wh det] [be] closely [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 It was therefore with great joy that most people in Britain greeted the recent news that three Beluga whales , which are closely related to dolphins , had made their own bid for freedom .
2 Extracts from a number of the studies referred to in the previous chapters are included ; as are extracts from works not specifically cited in these chapters but which are closely related to topics and issues raised in them .
3 This technique has been discovered independently by two different groups of birds — the weaverbirds of Africa which are closely related to the European sparrow , and the icterids of the Americas which include such birds as the caciques and the oropendolas .
4 These concerns have been further stimulated by the change in public attitudes to safety and environmental issues , many of which are closely linked to energy .
5 One important lesson which one can draw from this historical analysis is that it may not be possible to predetermine the nature of the proper relationship between politics and the press : each era spawns different sets of relationships which are closely linked to particular configurations of social , political and economic forces .
6 Not only are certain subjects ( physics , maths , engineering ) considered more suitable for men than for women , but also these subjects in themselves seem to embody qualities which are closely linked to our ideas about masculinity and femininity .
7 Atrophy , which is closely related to H pylori infection , is associated with a decline in acid secretion .
8 Wells ( 1973 ) reports on a study which is closely related to the concerns of this book .
9 We can discover the physical events that produce the perceptual effect of vowel quality , we can measure the intensity of different sounds ( which is closely related to the loudness that we perceive ) , and the fundamental frequency of voiced sounds ( which is closely related to pitch ) can be extracted from the speech signal .
10 It is one which is closely allied to a problem raised by implication by Alan Bennett , that imaginatively cynical Yorkshire dramatist and actor , who recently chose Mantegna 's Agony in the Garden as his choice in this month 's Dramatist 's Choice ’ series in the National Gallery .
11 The new government was composed of representatives from an alliance between the multiracial Fiji Labour Party and the National Federation Party which was closely allied to the interests of those of Indian extraction who slightly outnumbered the Melanesian population .
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