Example sentences of "closely [verb] with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second lecture , closely connected with the first and , like the first , closing with a portentous allusion to contemporary music drama , was given at the beginning of February , and dealt with the mysterious " death " of tragedy at the end of the fifth century . |
| 2 | Neither scholar had , strictly , gone through the stages necessary to qualify him for a mevleviyet , but the former was closely connected with the Grand Vezir Rustem Pasa , the latter with Sehzade Selim , later Sultan Selim 11 . |
| 3 | His swearing in by Mr Husak will bring together the two opposite poles of Czechoslovak politics — the unyielding dissident and the man most closely connected with the hard-line Communist regime that followed the Soviet-led 1968 invasion . |
| 4 | Usually teachers can expect detailed ( possibly too detailed ) help in English and Mathematics and sometimes also in Science and Religious Education , but often far less in local languages , Social Studies and cultural subjects , significantly enough , those subjects which are most closely connected with the local environment . |
| 5 | This is because the area of the brain associated with smell is very closely connected with the limbic area of the brain which is concerned with our most subtle responses such as emotion , memory , sex-drive and intuition . |
| 6 | Quedlinburg is now an unimportant town in the formerly East German Land of Sachsen-Anhalt , but it had its decades of glory in the early Middle Ages when it was closely connected with the German imperial court . |
| 7 | The rise of the Nevilles and the Percies in the late fourteenth century was the first occasion when families of genuine northern origin came into the front rank of the nobility — one may exclude the duchy of Lancaster from any such comment , because it was closely connected with the royal family and also held substantial lands in the Midlands and the South . |
| 8 | The rapid urbanization of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was closely integrated with the agricultural economy , and dependent on the manner in which the fruits of agricultural production were distributed . |
| 9 | As my right hon. Friend said in his statement on 10 December , our aim is that the naval reserves should be ’ streamlined but more closely integrated with the Royal Navy . ’ |
| 10 | They will also be closely linked with the final step in the research , which is that of relating the findings to established theory . |
| 11 | Dietary preferences of the predators are closely linked with the preferred hunting habitats of the different species , and these in turn are related to the way in which the predators hunt . |
| 12 | Is it necessary to have an extra ladder of offences so closely linked with the general ladder of offences of violence ? |
| 13 | Erwin Guzmán Gutiérrez , one of the country 's leading drug traffickers thought to be closely linked with the Colombian Calí cartel , surrendered on July 11 after having been given a guarantee of " juridical security " . |
| 14 | The practice of hearing children read has invariably been closely linked with the universal use of basic reading schemes . |
| 15 | Despite all the protest that his Salvation Front was too closely linked with the old communists , President Iliescu now almost certainly has a clear mandate to govern Romania . |
| 16 | The department is closely linked with the Royal Observatory with which it shares accommodation and world class research facilities . |
| 17 | The savage in Book V is closely equated with the uncontrolled , and noticeably with Roman Catholic tyranny . |
| 18 | In the latter case , of course , the sole criterion for being in the right is that of being opposed to the protagonist most closely identified with the parental authority — a very easy requirement to fulfil as the following true , but rather ludicrous , example shows . |
| 19 | Their contribution is perceived as threefold : they were long-standing rivals of Gloucester , which virtually guaranteed a power struggle in 1483 ; the favour shown them by the king had made them unpopular with the rest of the Yorkist establishment ; and they were so closely identified with the young king , Edward V , that any limitation of their power could only be made permanent by his deposition . |
| 20 | Their contribution is perceived as threefold : they were long-standing rivals of Gloucester , which virtually guaranteed a power struggle in 1483 ; the favour shown them by the king had made them unpopular with the rest of the Yorkist establishment ; and they were so closely identified with the young king , Edward V , that any limitation of their power could only be made permanent by his deposition . |
| 21 | We shall see later in Part II that this decline of manufacturing employment was closely identified with the heavy growth of unemployment in the 1980s , and with its concentration in most industrial towns and cities outside the South East , places which typically had rates of unemployment of 14 to 20 per cent . |
| 22 | These three stations , which from the air offer one of the railway sights of the world , all stood in an area which was closely identified with the British community , significantly close to the docks . |
| 23 | One of the large sprocket attaching bolts was found fractured at a position closely corresponding with the top surface of the sprocket ( i.e. in the lower face of the plain washer ) . |
| 24 | One way of addressing this is for me to continue to highlight some of the views of colleagues who have not , in the public mind at least , been closely associated with the anti-Federalist cause and several of whom were not , for instance , among the eighty-odd Conservative Members who signed one or both of the ‘ Fresh Start ’ Motions . |
| 25 | These were the principles underlying the creation of the University of Keele ( as it later became ) , whose founding Vice-Chancellor , A. D. Lindsay , had been Master of Balliol College , Oxford , and closely associated with the powerful group that promoted Cumberland Lodge . |
| 26 | The early bull-running was administered by a secret guild of mason-like bull priests who were closely associated with the ancient university . |
| 27 | In the past they 've been the band most closely associated with the post-'88 cyberdelic culture . |
| 28 | SENIOR Bulgarian Communist Party leaders yesterday offered to resign after high-level accusations that they were closely associated with the fallen hardline leader , Mr Todor Zhivkov , and had implemented few changes since coming to power . |
| 29 | It was only decisively ended by the Revolution of 1688 , Muddiman having become too closely associated with the fallen regime . |
| 30 | It might also be argued that it functions as metonymy , in which some element closely associated with the prime function of the whole comes to stand in for it . |