Example sentences of "they [modal v] [be] related to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quality Control activities can be very costly , and since they represent an overhead cost in the production area , the degree of time and resources spent on them must be related to factors such as price , consistency , safety and legal requirements , for example . |
| 2 | One or two of them might be related to me , but I work on the assumption that my children will have access to most things and personal experience of some . |
| 3 | As my thesis is broadly supportive of small rural schools , I shall attempt to offer possible solutions to the disadvantages , despite the fact that they must be related to implicit value judgements . |
| 4 | They must be related to the conditions prevailing over several preceding days . |
| 5 | They can involve further investigation of a problem or need identified in the placement year , or they might be related to staff research interests . |
| 6 | Landscapes were empty and without meaning unless they could be related to an inner view , to a feeling of emptiness or apprehension , a sadness , a surge of hope , an ecstasy . |
| 7 | 5.5 This conclusion will actually exclude the great majority of verbs ( or , more exactly , all normal uses of the great majority of verbs ) from appearing in construction with an adverbal adjective at all , with or without the claimed nuance ; either they will be related to their object in such a way that there is simply no need to mention any particular property of the latter entity , as in ( 30 ) ; or , even if there is some property of the object specially relevant to the notion introduced in the verb , that property does not belong to the object by virtue of the relationship between the verb and the object ; for instance , even if Angela in ( 31 ) resembles her cousin in that they are both dark , her cousin does not have that property because Angela resembles her , and even if the Prince admired his Chief Justice because of his disposition to clemency it is not the the Prince 's admiration that justifies the applicability of the property merciful . |
| 8 | The activities of delinquent fans might be more intelligible if they can be related to particular roles and positions with respect to other fans . |
| 9 | The principles on which these three kinds of bodies are built are so fundamentally different that it is difficult to believe that they can be related to one another except right at the very roots of the evolutionary tree . |
| 10 | The signal contents of these responses need careful reconsideration before they can be related to VOR adaptation . |