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

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1 Capital values at least have the benefit of being related to a market , although I am sure that many owners will seek to convince their bank managers that their property should be in band H while they seek to convince the rating authorities that their property should really be in band F.
2 Neither is fair , in the sense of being related to income , and thus ability to pay .
3 That is why there is such comfort and assurance in being related to his Holy Spirit .
4 A thrusting action should accompany all linear punches and kicks , since it is believed to be related to potential power in a way that a snapping action is not .
5 Therefore the amount taken needs to be related to the type of job a person has and also the type of training he undertakes .
6 Clearly , the existence of timber decay is likely to be related to other shortcomings in the condition of the building and these faults may require rectification in addition to treatment of the timber .
7 ‘ I 've been an Overseas ’ Corporation Executive for the last ten years and I 've always been told that the reason the Corporation could n't pay me the salary it paid to Americans doing similar work was because my salary had to be related to British salary scales . ’
8 Other peers in the paternalist tradition , led by the former knight of the shires , Lord Chelwood ( the much-parodied Sir Tufton Beamish ) , planned an amendment which would have required the tax to be related to ability to pay .
9 It needs to be related to their own experience , for then they will understand .
10 All this needs to be related to the situation in vivo to be of any real use .
11 How is authority to be related to the nebulous notion of a valid requirement for the obedience of one 's subjects ?
12 Solvent responsive soils : no particular type of soil tends to be related to solvents .
13 Probably rather less than immediately appears , for , although symptoms of thrush may seem to be related to a recent sexual act , it may be that the trauma of vigorous sexual intercourse has brought to the surface that which was lying dormant .
14 This way of putting the question reveals a sound judgement of the school curriculum : it has to be related to a child 's needs , and justified if and only if it satisfies those needs .
15 An imposter arrived claiming to be related to one of them , and whilst he was alone with the bodies he drove a wooden stake into the heart of each .
16 LMS was viewed as being very similar to the pilot schemes , although the heads ' opinions tended to be related to how kind they expected the formula to be to their situation .
17 In origin , this inverted posture seems to be related to the scent-marking action of certain small carnivores that deposit their odours upwards on high objects .
18 The reason for this is not clear but it is believed to be related to surface characteristics such as defect chemistry .
19 Size of establishment would be expected to be related to amount of training undertaken though in practice many libraries ( and not only small libraries ) appeared to undertake both less training and far less systematic training than must be considered ideal given that all staff in any size library will have training needs :
20 Gandhi 's reply to these kind of questions would probably indicate that for him morality has to be related to what he conceives religion to be .
21 Can it be , that when Gandhi refers to morality without religion as being similar to a house built on sand he is simply expressing in a different way his belief in the convertibility of these terms rather than suggesting that morality has to be related to a particular religion ?
22 Authority , therefore , comes to be related to people having power .
23 On other occasions , indeed on most occasions , we can not count on the context complementing words so closely , occasions when more precision is needed to identify the contextual features which are to be related to the conceptual meaning of the words to achieve indexical meaning .
24 I assumed you to be related to the lady Anne . ’
25 To be theoretically consistent , increases in electoral support for the party need to be related to changes in the local social structure .
26 Obesity appears to be related to cultural practice as it varies according to class .
27 The results of their analysis strengthens their belief that ‘ environmental scarcity does appear to be related to a range of trade violations ’ ( Staw and Szwajkowski 1975 : 353 ) .
28 Naturally , some of these indications are quite likely to be related to problems other than faulty vision , but since sight problems may be causing them , a screening test which is , after all , quick and easy to perform should help to confirm or rule out defective vision as a reason for concern .
29 So , for example , ‘ All attributes which we ascribe to God are to be taken as denoting , not something special in God , but only something special in the manner in which the feeling of absolute dependence is to be related to him ’ .
30 Country size , for instance , appears to be related to the propensity to centralise collective bargaining authority within national confederations .
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