Example sentences of "to [be] relevant to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dance is firstly a physical activity and if it is obscured by complicated costumes , props , machinery , lighting and stage effects , it ceases to be relevant to anything but the cleverness of the producer . |
| 2 | This consideration can affect the process of data modelling since the cognitive models available define the ‘ entities thought to be relevant to the task in hand ’ . |
| 3 | Her Majesty 's Inspectorate recently published a study of the Danish folkeskole , one of a series highlighting various aspects of foreign education systems believed to be relevant to British practice . |
| 4 | The diversity of factors and problems suggests that no single preventive measure is likely to be relevant to all patients , and that effective prevention will have to include different procedures at the various stages in the chain of events leading up to the suicide attempt . |
| 5 | Some people were outstanding and became the deified men and women of the great religions , and their lives can be shown to be relevant to the conception of the Created God . |
| 6 | There can be no doubt that the way of life argument is widely felt to be relevant to the issue of primary school closure in rural areas . |
| 7 | Quiet changes in design appear only to be relevant to new areas , so that public debate and understanding is limited . |
| 8 | A further objection to ‘ know ’ is that knowing a proposition to be true is independent of viewpoint , so that there would be no possibility of an imperative ‘ Know ’ proving like ‘ Be aware ’ to be relevant to morals . |
| 9 | The Board of Inland Revenue had the power to serve a notice on any body corporate , requiring particulars that appeared to them to be relevant to a transaction to which s 485 might apply . |
| 10 | When the Bingham Report recommended a statutory duty for auditors ‘ to report to the Bank any information or opinion which the auditor knows or should reasonably know to be relevant to a bank 's fulfilment of the criteria in Sch 3 of the 1987 [ Banking ] Act ’ ( ie the criteria for being licensed as a bank ) , auditors ' reactions varied from the totally relaxed to the slightly concerned , but no one positively opposed the change . |
| 11 | Listeners expected the radio to be relevant to problems as they saw them . |
| 12 | Richards created a method of defining vessel shape ( 1982 ) using a fixed set of rules ; the profile of vessels is recorded and normalised to a standard height , a parameter which does not seem to be relevant to the definition of forms . |
| 13 | A writer must face the terrifying complexity of contemporary life if her fictions or poems are to be relevant to the world today . |
| 14 | In that event science must be seen to be relevant to the issues which concern them . |
| 15 | Perhaps this attitude of ‘ cooling it ’ , ‘ turning off ’ , ‘ keeping his head down ’ , ‘ disengaging ’ on the part of the failing student is a special case of what Roy Cox ( 1967 ) had in mind when he said : ‘ It is clear that where students are assessed in a way which is not seen to be relevant to what they are aiming at they will tend to distort and degrade the assessment so that it does not become a source of esteem . ’ |
| 16 | Though primarily a commentary on Henry II 's government in England , the Policraticus used the terms of Roman law , princeps for ruler and provincia , province , for the area of his rule ; these suggest that John also intended his book to be relevant to France , the land in which he had been educated and to which he was to return as bishop of Chartres . |
| 17 | Most important of all , family allowances were seen to be relevant to the government 's economic policy . |
| 18 | It seems unlikely then , that ‘ standard procedures ’ of recording space and time are going to be relevant to the unique identification of utterance acts . |
| 19 | A decision to the contrary in the British Columbia Court of Appeal , City of Prince George v. British Columbia Television System Ltd. , 95 D.L.R. ( 3d ) 577 , held that a municipality could sue for libel , but did not consider the argument of competing interests and the balancing exercise required under article 10 , and I do not consider it to be relevant to this appeal . |
| 20 | In all criminal and civil proceedings any such code shall be admissible in evidence ; and if any provision of such a code appears to the court or tribunal conducting the proceedings to be relevant to any question arising in the proceedings it shall be taken into account in determining that question . |
| 21 | This book is not the place to undertake such a task ; but one comment that might be made is that an initial distinction between class and status is likely to be important ; for it is the evaluative rather than the economic dimension of stratification which seems to be relevant to linguistic variation . |
| 22 | In what ways , if any , do they perceive Marxism to be relevant to Latin American conditions ? |
| 23 | It is more likely to be relevant to medium and long term planning and forecasting , especially ( as far as this book is concerned ) as regards market development , growth and decline . |
| 24 | It is more likely to be relevant to medium and long term forecasting and planning than quantitative techniques . |
| 25 | The question would be posed more specifically , distinguishing between the types of physical characteristics that were felt to be relevant to teaching and those , such as hair colour , which were not . |
| 26 | On the other hand , SSAP 12 ( which is directly concerned with depreciation ) is said not to be relevant to local authorities . |
| 27 | Throughout the early reports there is a constant emphasis on the level and content of the work , in an obvious attempt to stress that adults in ‘ deprived ’ areas are capable of undertaking sustained , demanding education if it is seen to be relevant to their needs . |
| 28 | They have been designed to be relevant to both small and large organisations in the public and private sectors , and take into account the variations that there will inevitably be in organisations ' approaches to developing their people . |
| 29 | The findings of the research will be presented in various academic and non-academic publications and written in a manner to be relevant to those engaged in executive and occupational re-training . |
| 30 | The intended output will be the identification of areas where reconceptualisation is required , with a view to defining new lines of social science research which are likely to be relevant to future attempts at policy formulation , both nationally and internationally . |