Example sentences of "be connected with the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The police suspect the IRA may be connected with the incident .
2 I assured him we were only asking Mr Evans one or two questions that might or might not be connected with the case .
3 The armed group was not believed to be connected with the Jungle Commando guerrilla group which has been fighting the Suriname Government on and off since 1986 , he said .
4 The idea of a plurality of ontological particulars , on the other hand , seems to be connected with the idea of irreducible relations , and the idea of irreducible relations , I have argued , raises the problem of objective order .
5 The survival potential of the egg outside the body varies , but appears to be connected with the thickness of the shell , which protects the larva from desiccation .
6 And the university provided them , greatly goosed on , I might say , by the then Vice Chancellor Aisa Briggs , who was very excited by the project , and that 's really how I came to be connected with the university .
7 Winifred Harper was diagnosed as suffering from Parkinson 's disease , which both she and Dr Newman suspected to be connected with the water poisoning .
8 The alternative regime in ss219 to 229 applies if : ( a ) Target is an unquoted trading company or the holding company of a trading group ( an unquoted company will include one whose shares are traded on the Unlisted Securities Market ) ; ( b ) the purchase of own shares is wholly or mainly for the benefit of Target 's trade or any of its 75% subsidiaries ; ( c ) the purchase does not form part of a scheme or arrangement the main purpose of which is to avoid tax or enable shareholders to participate in the company 's profits without being taxed on dividends ( there is a clearance procedure under s225 ) ; ( d ) the vendor shareholders are resident and ordinarily resident in the UK in the tax year in which the buy-in occurs ; any nominee shareholder must also be so resident , so if the distribution treatment is desirable it can be achieved by interposing non-UK-resident nominees ; ( e ) the shareholder has held his shares for at least five years ; ( f ) the shareholder 's shareholding immediately after the buy-in has been substantially reduced ( ie , by 25% or more , and his entitlement to profits must be similarly reduced ) ; for these purposes the shareholder must include the shareholdings of his " associates " as determined in accordance with s227 ; ( g ) the shareholder must not be connected with the company following the buy-in , and for these purposes he will be connected if he is entitled to acquire more than 30% of the share capital or voting rights in the company or assets on a winding up .
9 The evidence actually tends to be ambiguous ( West 1969 ; Jones 1979b ) as indications of timberwork at the lip of the pit may be connected with the superstructure and planking in the base may have fallen from the walls or roof lining .
10 During 1989 and early 1990 , in addition to the May and September 1989 attacks listed above ( both of which were believed to be connected with the Koskotas affair and with the November 17 Revolutionary Organization ) there were a number of small bomb attacks against cars and buildings , which caused material damage and sometimes injury but no deaths .
11 X Ltd would be a body corporate ( s678(1) ( a ) ) and would be connected with the settlement ( s678(4) ) .
12 Some will be connected with the parent 's needs , but others will be personal to them ; psychological , social and financial .
13 Most verbs which are used of situations where the object — talking strictly of the intensional level and not of the world referred to — does not change its properties ( between the narrow focus on the object phrase alone , and the wider view when it is construed with the verb and the adjective as in ( 22 ) ) will not be suitable ; if a property that might be expressed by an adjective could be present in the wider structural context , then its applicability will not normally be connected with the link between the verb and the noun phrase .
14 Up to one in four allergies may be connected with the workplace .
15 It does not have to be connected with the Bishop 's Castle Railway , but BCR items would take preference .
16 It had also been cut by a culvert originally containing a wooden box drain , which might be connected with the provision of the sandstone-lined drains further east .
17 These could be connected with the telegraph wires alongside the track , so that communication could be established as necessary with the nearest signal-box or with central control .
18 The timing of the transaction may be connected with the purpose of the sale and be critical to the transaction as a whole .
19 Mr Waite added : ‘ Because of the volatile complexity of the situation it is hardly surprising that rumours continue to circulate regarding individuals who were alleged to be connected with the hostages .
20 Mr Waite added : ‘ Because of the volatile complexity of the situation it is hardly surprising that rumours continue to circulate regarding individuals who were alleged to be connected with the hostages .
21 and Jespersen feel that where to is clearly felt to have meaning it can be connected with the preposition to in the spatial sense of movement towards a point .
22 There was disagreement with the Corporation as to whether the track in Tamworth Road , Croydon , common to the Mitcham and Sutton routes , should be connected with the Corporation rails on West Croydon Bridge .
23 What that dour clerk had announced must be connected with the death of Lady Eleanor , and , perhaps the death of old Martha .
24 The charter S 950 is a grant to him from 1018 , and so is S 952 , which alleges that Cnut gave Christ Church freedom , and may be connected with the report ( S 985 ) that he confirmed their liberties by placing their charters on the altar .
25 She knew that some of the men there were shepherds who came in from the country and that all this must be connected with the kidnapping .
26 Could this forgetfulness possibly be connected with the identity of Mr Major 's generous host in Candelada ?
27 Thus the premium need not necessarily be connected with the product that carried the premium ; the idea is to stimulate purchases of the product — selling the premium is of secondary importance .
28 It may be connected with the use of drugs , especially antibiotics .
29 It is believed that this incident may be connected with the riots yesterday in Deptford . ’
30 A recent increase in reports is assumed to be connected with the re-establishment of a British breeding population .
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