Example sentences of "be related [prep] the number " in BNC.

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1 For example , government expenditure on unemployment benefits is related to the number of people out of work ; state pensions are related to the number of people over retirement age ; and taxation receipts are influenced by the incomes of the community ( via direct taxes ) and by prices ( via indirect taxes ) .
2 If groups of records are to be stored in buckets , it will be related to the number of buckets required .
3 He looked at the crime figures reported by the Merseyside police , where the increase in clear-up rates could be shown to be related to the number of prison visits by police officers .
4 Cigarette smoking is associated with a decrease in particular cells — Langerhans ' cells — which form an important part of the body 's immune system , the cell count being related to the number of cigarettes smoked daily [ 8 ] .
5 Cigarette smoking is associated with a decrease in particular cells — Langerhans ' cells — which form an important part of the body 's immune system , the cell count being related to the number of cigarettes smoked daily [ 5 ] .
6 Spatial frequency is less intuitively obvious but is related to the number of times the display cycles from light to dark to light again as you go a fixed distance in a single direction across the display .
7 For example , government expenditure on unemployment benefits is related to the number of people out of work ; state pensions are related to the number of people over retirement age ; and taxation receipts are influenced by the incomes of the community ( via direct taxes ) and by prices ( via indirect taxes ) .
8 ( b ) The weight gain of the birds per day is related to the number of flowers on its territory ( territories change size between days ) .
9 The council tax is related to the number of people in a house , but it offers more generous treatment for people such as students , who will not add to the household bill .
10 For a system in a given state , the entropy is related to the number of distinguishable arrangements the components in that state can adopt , and can be calculated from the Boltzmann law , where W is the number of statistical microstates available to the system .
11 The most important of the new parameters is the so-called ‘ structural effect ’ which is related to the number of degrees of freedom ‘ 3 c ’ which a molecule possesses , divided by the number of external contacts q .
12 The team secretary , Paul Williams , said : ‘ We have had phenomenal numbers on the hills this winter and obviously the number up there is related to the number of accidents . ’
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