Example sentences of "bind up with the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Rural development in Lewis and Harris remains closely bound up with the complex question of crofting .
2 Sometimes , as they encountered new crowds of pole-carrying Annamese peasants jogging ceaselessly between market and rice field , or spilling out of their tiny village temples and pagodas , he felt that what had happened was somehow inextricably bound up with the torrid , exotic country that was so totally unfamiliar to him in all its ways , and other distressing images of the recent past began to flood through his mind ; he saw again the brutal French colon lashing the fallen prisoners between the shafts of the cart in Saigon , remembered the horror he had felt at the sight of what he thought were many massacred coolies on the river wharf on their arrival , and he heard once more the thud of the Citron striking the peasant boy on the way to the hunting camp .
3 It has been a fundamental aim of this study to argue that the images of working-class youth , and their means of construction were inextricably bound up with the political , economic , social , and cultural issues of the time .
4 The aim is to develop a range of policies to develop the positive aspects of this process for scientific growth in potential host countries such as the UK ; and also to minimise the deleterious effects of negative aspects such as those bound up with the current ‘ brain drain' .
5 According to a long and dominant tradition , the physical is bound up with the spatial .
6 At a higher social level the lives and fortunes of individuals continued to be bound up with the continental possessions .
7 As such , much of the debate over homosexuality was intimately bound up with the wider argument that has already been identified over the role and significance of the modern ‘ nuclear ’ or ‘ bourgeois ’ family .
8 The problem of the missing mass is bound up with the other great problem of cosmology — where did the overall structure of the universe come from ?
9 And , of the instinctual components necessarily repressed and sublimated in the service of culture , the coprophilic is one of the most significant , says Freud : ‘ the excremental is all too intimately and inseparably bound up with the sexual ; the position of the genitals — inter urinas et faeces — remains the decisive and unchangeable factor ’ ( vii .
10 As the question of his death date , and indeed the circumstances of his death , are intimately bound up with the vexed problem of the identity of his successor , further discussion of it may suitably be left to the following chapter .
11 Highly charged personal reminiscence is bound up with the anthropological perspective which gives it an impersonal respectability .
12 The interests of the overwhelming majority of professional people , small business men , shopkeepers and farmers are bound up with the social progress of the Labour and Democratic Movements .
13 In so doing , they claim that it is not just secondary qualities that are confined to the mind , but , with them , the whole vivid force of the world-as-we-perceive-it , - what some philosophers call the manifest image of the world — which is intrinsically bound up with the secondary qualities .
14 It was also a source of fees for more distant associates and although such relationships were more vulnerable to dynastic change , because less bound up with the territorial dominance of the lord of Middleham , some did nevertheless survive the transfer of power in 1471 .
15 It was also a source of fees for more distant associates and although such relationships were more vulnerable to dynastic change , because less bound up with the territorial dominance of the lord of Middleham , some did nevertheless survive the transfer of power in 1471 .
16 The institutions of Roman civil law were bound up with the rigid observance of strict form ; trusts were not , the textbooks say .
17 The reconversion of one portion of the value of the product into capital and the passing of another portion into the individual consumption of the capitalist as well as the working class form a movement within the value of the product itself in which the result of the aggregate capital finds expression ; and this movement is not only a replacement of value , but also a replacement in material and is therefore as much bound up with the relative proportions of the value-components of the total social product as with their use-value , their material shape .
18 The conventional notion of a simple customer transaction conceals a host of difficulties , bound up with the financial power of the old customer , the status of old people more generally , the limited capacity which many have , especially women alone , to do their own repairs , the shortages of special services in given areas , and so on .
19 The whole question of our relations with the Americans on atomic energy questions seems to me bound up with the larger issue of the extent to which the Americans are prepared to treat us on more or less equal terms as a first-class power .
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