Example sentences of "to [be] relevant " 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 | Although these technical advances will not significantly alter the dominant influence of climate on the length of the growing season or on the difficulty of harvesting crops in the hills , the ideas on which they are based seem to be relevant and applicable to a wide range of hill environments and can accommodate many of the regional variations in farming practice . |
| 3 | I have established that the initial phase of training must be given with the stimuli that are to be relevant in the test phase . |
| 4 | The following points are likely to be relevant : |
| 5 | In a slimming-down operation , the job performance and skills of the members of the selection group are likely to be relevant in the redundancy selection process . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | Even the churches , in making reports about Gartcosh , teachers ' pay , inner-city deprivation or whatever , are drawn into this political debate and inevitably they feel in order to be relevant they must offer political and practical solutions . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Advantage should be taken of external courses where these can be shown to be relevant and cost effective . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Quiet changes in design appear only to be relevant to new areas , so that public debate and understanding is limited . |
| 14 | There is no evidence that any Continental work is even known about , let alone thought to be relevant . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Listeners expected the radio to be relevant to problems as they saw them . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A writer must face the terrifying complexity of contemporary life if her fictions or poems are to be relevant to the world today . |
| 21 | But once the difference between one 's body qua sensitive and one 's body qua sensible , is realised , it is seen not to be relevant . |
| 22 | In that event science must be seen to be relevant to the issues which concern them . |
| 23 | Marriage and the family were only thought to be relevant in considering young women 's careers , not young men 's . |
| 24 | In fact , most people publish in the hope that their findings will continue to be relevant long after the particular theory to which they have attached them has been finally laid to rest . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Consequently , norm development occurs over very long periods , and often very old behaviour patterns are preserved long after they have ceased to be relevant . |
| 28 | Most important of all , family allowances were seen to be relevant to the government 's economic policy . |
| 29 | In the Texaco v. Libya arbitration Professor Dupuy , an exponent of the concept , considered three factors to be relevant . |
| 30 | N.B. Throughout this book we refer to " schools " and " teachers " , since these are involved in the initial phase of Compact , but we hope that the " Questions Teachers Ask " section will prove to be relevant and useful to college lecturers as well . |