Example sentences of "[be] relative to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later on in the article he repeats this ; ie. ‘ not only does the tenon need to be pretty much where it needs to be relative to the thickness of the wood . ’ |
| 2 | Characterizations of progress and specifications of criteria for judging the merits of theories will always be relative to the individual or community that subscribes to them . |
| 3 | Five is relative to the law of potentiality which shows that nature tends to build on a system of five-fold construction ; e.g. five toes on each foot , five fingers on each hand , five senses . |
| 4 | Take for example his statement that the position of every groove , cut , and hole is relative to the dimension of the timber . |
| 5 | When Harry 's front axle buckled , he was behind a truck A few brief comments on each of these : in ( 35a ) the pronoun I is used gesturally to self-nominate from a group , in ( 35b ) it just has the symbolic usage ; in ( 36b ) the word ago places the time at which the action occurred relative to the time of speaking , in ( 36c ) the time is relative to the time at which the events in the narrative occurred . |
| 6 | The status we en joy is relative to the group we are in . |
| 7 | On the other hand , if the room cues are rotated so that , for instance , the clock now appears in the south instead of the north , the rat will become confused , swimming to the region of the tank at which the shelf would have been relative to the clock if the latter had not been shifted . |
| 8 | In terms of where you are relative to the Earth 's surface , the four coordinates could be : |
| 9 | The pragmatists thus argue that all knowledge is hypothetical and fallible ; that the meaning of concepts must be rooted in their social context ; that we should focus on the consequences rather than the origins of knowledge ; that all distinctions and boundaries to inquiry are relative to the stage of development of the inquiry ; and that the standards or norms of inquiry are developed as part of the process of inquiry . |
| 10 | What nonsense — they are relative to the face side/edge , or the reference plane as the author calls it . |