Example sentences of "be closely [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Fiegehan and his colleagues ( 1977 ) found age to be closely related to poverty : old people in Britain often subsist on very small incomes indeed . |
| 3 | Deskilling appeared to be closely linked to computerization : least skill was required by the clerks at the most computerized of the institutions , the local authority . |
| 4 | Concepts of instrumentation in this period appear still to be closely allied to Renaissance consort principles . |
| 5 | Increases in laminin concentration have been closely related to portal hypertension . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Obviously infarct size and subsequent left ventricular function are closely related to prognosis . |
| 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 | Such hydration expansion commonly occurs in response to changes in relative humidity which , since they are closely related to temperature , may be diumal . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The people who make these panels are closely related to estate agents , in other words they are a lower life-form . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Appleton et al have indicated that the mucosal proliferative changes brought about in experimental carcinogenesis by small bowel resection or calcium supplementation , or both , are closely linked to tumour yield . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The third defining feature of positivist criminology — pathology — is closely related to differentiation . |
| 17 | Firstly , after eating a meal gall bladder contraction is closely related to plasma CCK concentrations . |
| 18 | The sort of task illustrated above is closely related to estimation tasks . |
| 19 | It is the third group which concerns us , since it is closely related to selection methods . |
| 20 | It is closely related to peat and has a relatively low carbon content and high moisture content . |
| 21 | In this sense irony is closely related to paradox , which involves the association of conflicting elements within the same statement . |
| 22 | Perhaps even more than is usual in the social sciences , theory is closely related to practice . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Similarly , the karate competitor must be able to move smoothly and sometimes explosively , so the notion of stance is closely linked to movement . |
| 25 | Now , ‘ investment is closely linked to product . |
| 26 | Particular attention must be given to the following : ( 1 ) The secrecy obligation is closely linked to Rule 2.2(e) which requires that where more than a very restricted number of people ( ie those in the companies concerned who need to know and their immediate advisers ) are included in pre-offer negotiations or discussions , then an announcement must be made . |
| 27 | Placement of tonic stress is , therefore , important and is closely linked to intonation . |
| 28 | be closely related to decision making and planning including financial appropriation ; |
| 29 | Social structure was closely related to farming systems . |
| 30 | If he countenanced a philosophy of sadism , it was the more dangerous in that its stimulus was closely allied to puritan susceptibilities . |