Example sentences of "[prep] be [adv] relate " in BNC.

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1 The likelihood that a person enters higher education continues to be strongly related to his or her family 's social class .
2 However , this is not what was expected from Study 1 where recall seemed to be strongly related to ratings of subjective risk .
3 The genes in question seem to be very similar in prokaryotes which in other respects are not very alike , and which are thought not to be closely related .
4 The chemical structure of mescaline was established in 1918 and was found to be closely related to that of adrenaline , which leads to some interesting speculations .
5 In the past it was believed to be closely related to the shaggy , hardy Highland .
6 Fiegehan and his colleagues ( 1977 ) found age to be closely related to poverty : old people in Britain often subsist on very small incomes indeed .
7 Anaspids also show a dorsally placed nasohypophysial opening and are therefore considered to be closely related to lampreys and cephalaspids .
8 As they bind to similar DNA sequences and associate with the same proteins , they are likely to be closely related .
9 This appears to be closely related to whether we share the observed characteristic or not .
10 Greater participation by women in paid work and changes in family structure thus seem to be closely related , although what the mechanisms are that connect the two changes is less clear .
11 GSR as a measure can , of course , be criticised for the fact that it is known to be closely related to the subject 's expectancies and preparations for action .
12 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 .
13 The location of rift systems also seems to be closely related to the distribution of ancient structures representing zones of weakness between stable cratons .
14 They 're likely to be medically related in the main .
15 This criterion is quite strict , and does not allow the grouping together of all senses normally considered to be metaphorically related .
16 Some rifts appear to be clearly related to divergent crustal movements with lateral extension being normal to the rift axis .
17 In Venice the corruption was said to be principally related to an understanding between local sections of the PSI and the DC , and to have involved the payment of bribes by businessmen for the award of public contracts in motorway construction and waterworks projects .
18 Research topics do not need to be immediately related to BP Chemicals operations but they must be on environmental matters .
19 Inter-site variation in laser Doppler flow measurements has been shown to be partly related to the small dimensions of the measurement volume , which make the results highly sensitive to local non-uniformity of microvascular perfusion .
20 An American report found heart rate to be positively related to blood glucose ( Stamler et al , 1975 ) .
21 Thus two apparently unrelated discussions : the notion of autonomy in relation to the public-private distinction , and pornography , are shown here to be intimately related .4
22 Cancer , most feared of illnesses , is now seen to be intimately related to our emotional life .
23 We hope that both questions will be pursued with equal vigour and no doubt they will turn out to be unpredictably related to each other .
24 Under the RES the number of constituencies allotted to each region would need to be proportionately related to its percentage of the national electorate .
25 Fear is the commonest change in mood associated with complex partial seizures and is thought to be exclusively related to the right temporal lobe .
26 But the two need to be carefully related .
27 Relative preferences for Labour and Conservative tended to be inversely related .
28 In a study of 102 scimitar-horned oryx juvenile survival rates were shown to be inversely related to the degree of inbreeding .
29 Also , these studies did not take into account HDL levels , which are well known to be inversely related to serum triglyceride concentrations ( Hulley et al , 1980 ) .
30 Again , we would expect its level of use to be inversely related to the level of union organisation in an establishment .
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