verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a complaint concerns sth/relates to sth
▪ We have received a number of complaints concerning faulty goods.
a related incident (=connected to another incident)
▪ The report describes a number of related incidents.
relating to
▪ documents relating to immigration laws
the rules concerning/governing/relating to sthformal (= the rules about something)
▪ the rules governing food labeling
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
closely
▪ However, a further ten shared elements show whales to be closely related to hippopotami.
▪ This is closely related to item 3 above.
▪ In addition to the cuneiform inscriptions of Old Persian, there was also a closely related liturgical language known as Avestan.
▪ There are others that are closely related.
▪ This issue is closely related to the form of socio-tenurial polarization in the Northern Tyneside area.
▪ Some financial managers transfer to closely related positions in other industries.
▪ In the past it was believed to be closely related to the shaggy, hardy Highland.
▪ In closely related animals, the jump would be easier.
directly
▪ The only restriction being that a condition must directly relate to the site and must be reasonable.
▪ The measurement team selected this measure because it related directly to the corporate goal of de creasing cost per order. 4.
▪ But whether they were related directly to the main body of the puzzle was not yet clear.
▪ Producers must receive a higher price to produce these more costly units. 7 Price and quantity supplied are directly related.
▪ However, it is harder to see why age should be directly related to poverty in the years after retirement.
▪ Demonstration of this assertion depends on specifying the features of ante-mortem existence which are directly related to post-mortem existence. 1.
▪ Of course these difficulties are directly related to the subject of one's work, to its form and content.
▪ All this changed in the agricultural civilizations, whose rhythm of existence was directly related to the functions of measurement and calculation.
to
▪ This will have to relate to when there was only one child.
▪ He began to seek further alignments which might relate to far more subtle astronomical changes - and found them.
▪ His counterpart in Tenderloin has equally pressing concerns on his mind, but the kind that pop kids can relate to.
▪ Sky Hunt: It is an issue that everyone relates to, and it has never been done.
▪ That's one word you don't even know how to relate to.
▪ This third criterion is related to whether you feel this new person is friend or foe.
▪ The interesting questions relate to how they are expressed in different species.
▪ It also relates to much wider issues such as the abuse of monopoly power, exploitation and poverty.
■ NOUN
activity
▪ He was a patient with well documented milk sensitivity that was not persistent and may have been related to activity of disease.
▪ They assert that the destiny of the soul is related to the activity of the soul during its habitation in the body.
▪ These changes have been related to volcanic activity in this eruptive neighbourhood.
▪ The time of incubation is related to enzyme activity in terms of product formed or substrate depleted.
▪ This will involve a programme of speeches, meetings and visits relating the department's activities to the world outside.
▪ Fonti was understandably uneasy about answering questions relating to Mafia activities.
▪ The first relates to the activities included in the definition of sport.
▪ Was it related to any activity or injury?
change
▪ Whether a particular chemical reaction is likely to occur is related to the change in free energy involved.
▪ They are expanding their knowledge of brain circuitry and learning-related physiological changes in the brains of higher mammals.
▪ This was not related to any change in adhesive properties.
▪ These help to define how consumers' participation decisions relate to price changes.
▪ Here they will collect detailed data relating to atmospheric changes.
▪ How do such changes relate to friendship changes?
▪ To what extent can trends be related to concomitant changes in age structure, household composition, or work patterns?
▪ Can they be related to changes in the personal income tax and social security system?
charge
▪ Mr Virdi denied 11 charges relating to sending offensive mail and the alleged attempt to blame a fellow officer.
▪ But the charges Thursday were not related to the standoff.
▪ The charges relate to 24 separate mortgage advances, ranging from £61,750 to £17,500, worth a combined £803,000.
▪ Most charges were drug-related misdemeanors.
▪ He was bailed on Feb. 5, but further charges relating to another 10,000,000 yen were lodged against him on Feb. 17.
▪ Grand juries in California and New Jersey have indicted Kaczynski on charges relating to the bombing deaths.
▪ Five men go on trial next month on fraud charges relating to the bank.
▪ Paine Webber said it earned $ 58. 8 million in the fourth quarter after the charge related to the limited partnerships.
development
▪ This switch by an important faction of Austrasian magnates may be related to developments at court.
▪ Hirsch says Symington was obligated by a 1987 agreement to pay him fees related to the development of the Esplanade.
▪ Of most importance to teachers were affective aims relating to the personal development of children.
▪ Inherent musical sense Several recent studies have credited infants with an inherent musical sense, without measuring related brain development.
▪ I understand that the conditions relating to the development have not yet been agreed.
▪ He argues that subject choice is related to adolescent psychological development.
▪ Joanne specialises in town and country planning and is currently involved in work relating to a major development in the town centre.
▪ The general position adopted has been that the conditions must fairly and reasonably relate to the permitted development.
document
▪ The DoJ subpoenaed documents relating to the Microsoft from Corel a month ago.
▪ The documents reveal valuable details relating to the professional performing forces, vocal and instrumental, that the companies employed.
experience
▪ Here is Piaget's most well-known demonstration of the infant's failure to relate actions to experiences.
▪ It is, of course, tremendously helpful to embellish school courses by providing related experiences at home.
▪ It needs to be related to their own experience, for then they will understand.
▪ In the industrial and engineering cluster, students participated in multi-week internships and prepared independent projects related to their work-site experiences.
▪ Whereas Ian would be resourceful and brave, Barbara would be the voice of reason, relating their experiences in human terms.
▪ Such goods entail the existence of consciousness, so they must relate to conscious experience in some way.
▪ These engineers tend to be recent recruits who can relate their own experience to young people.
▪ Fathers' needs are sometimes also related to their own experiences.
health
▪ It makes an interesting contrast with another related health issue: falling sperm counts.
▪ Although regulations relating to health and safety have a long history, the sweep and scope of the new powers are unprecedented.
▪ The point of the settlement was not just to get damages for smoking-related health problems but to prevent new ones.
▪ Cigarette-makers agreed in 1998 to pay the states $ 252 billion to settle claims for smoking-related health costs.
▪ Aspects of individual lifestyle, as well as structural factors, are related to health.
▪ For an informed estimate we must look at past and present data relating to health and safety.
▪ You can be involved at every level, from Board level to issues relating to health and safety for employees.
▪ Physical benefits may relate directly to the health relationship with active recreation.
information
▪ Traditionally, key information about the business particularly information related to competitive strategy and financial performance-was considered confidential.
▪ You should be aware that the information relating to the individual properties is considerable.
▪ Information exempt from disclosure is defined and includes information relating to an individual's education.
▪ Further information on any issue relating to workplace assessment may be obtained from.
▪ This included the publication of specific information relating to environmental performance and emissions data.
▪ The ability to remember information is related directly to the importance which it has for you.
issue
▪ More problematic than issues relating to the calculation of these statistics are the assumptions upon which they are based.
▪ A separate issue related to quality of care is the range of services provided.
▪ My final point is a secondary issue relating to the sample letter.
▪ Unfortunately, it arrived right after our Work Group has met and discussed issues related to its inclusion or exclusion.
▪ Sky Hunt: It is an issue that everyone relates to, and it has never been done.
▪ These are issues that are not related to thinking about the other world.
▪ This issue is closely related to the form of socio-tenurial polarization in the Northern Tyneside area.
▪ Option courses are available which examine issues relating to gender and work, gender and development and gender and politics.
law
▪ As a result the law relating to local government had become very detailed.
▪ The result of this is that the law relating to fraud and commercial affairs in general is strictly limited in its scope.
▪ The laws relating to taxation may be subject to changes which can not be foreseen.
▪ The general law relating to restraint of trade and business secrets is analysed in the first five chapters.
▪ But the stakes are so much higher than the mere semantics of the laws relating to lifting at the lineout.
▪ But until that time comes, we can only keep the laws relating to spiritual purity which are unconnected with the Temple.
matter
▪ The Editor's decision is final in all matters relating to the competition and no correspondence can be entered into.
▪ Neither Bouygues nor Deutsche Telekom would comment on matters relating to any talks.
▪ Questions on matters of policy should relate to policy options available to the Prime Minister.
▪ Then you will tell your master and Chief Justice Fortescue that we have important matters to relate, matters affecting the crown.
▪ The Agency will be a main focus of initiative for matters relating to health and safety at work.
performance
▪ The level of civic involvement in the 1970s is related to democratic institutional performance in the 1980s.
▪ He was released by the team in a move sources said was related more to performance than to salary cap considerations.
▪ To decide whether previous familiarity with a junction is related to recognition performance it is necessary to calculate new measures of recognition.
▪ The importance of skill theory is that it relates human performance to systems concepts and to individual differences.
▪ As often as not this was fixed and not related to the performance of the company.
▪ The returns are related to performance, but that is not surprising these days.
▪ This included the publication of specific information relating to environmental performance and emissions data.
▪ The other commonly assessed abilities have not been found to relate to managerial performance.
problem
▪ The proposals also aim to overcome the present problems relating to the independence, accountability and legal liability of external auditors.
▪ The applied ethics strand is represented by a unit concerned with moral problems relating to conflict between persons, groups and societies.
▪ Remember, the review of literature section allows plenty of space for discussing the many facets of the problem and related research.
▪ The problem is one of relating the spatial pattern with the spatial process.
▪ This public-good problem is closely related to the problem of externalities.
▪ The paper devotes more attention to establishing basic ideologies than to the problems of how they relate to specific strategies.
▪ Monumental social problems related to the disease are emerging.
question
▪ The first questions Wien asked were related to the resolving power of optical instruments.
▪ There are so many questions related to training and learning functions.
▪ Research into Anglo-Saxon pottery found in the excavation of settlements has tended to focus on questions relating to domestic pottery production.
▪ Fonti was understandably uneasy about answering questions relating to Mafia activities.
▪ Perhaps the most interesting questions relate to subject demand in public libraries, linked to the activity of stock revision.
▪ Having a therapist help take your focus off questions related to whether or not you are normal can be liberating and energizing.
▪ The results from the model can be used to answer questions relating to the long-term behaviour of the river basin.
▪ I plan to consider these questions as they relate to the human need to create and maintain self-identity in a social context.
rule
▪ But in the case of these classes, the rule relating to the bringing into account of advances does not apply.
▪ In conclusion I will make some comments on the requisites for effective rules relating to the control of armed conflicts.
▪ See note to s.103 for rules, relating to clubs, which may have some relevance to rules for seaman's canteens.
▪ The formal rules relating to treaties and third parties will first be examined.
▪ Provided that this section shall not affect any general rule of law relating to the execution of deeds or negotiable instruments.
▪ The rules relating to inadmissible reservations and objections thereto can confuse the relationship even between States which have ratified a treaty.
story
▪ Members of the family, coached by Nicholas, would relate stories from secular histories or the lives of saints.
▪ Cornell was the most autobiographical of artists, for ever relating his life story -- or lack of one -- in his work.
▪ On relating the story to Mr Bailey, the man asked whether a train service was running at that time of night.
▪ Another related a story about a friend who got pregnant unintentionally while drunk and only then was compelled to stop drinking.
▪ They relate the story in a hushed tone, watching carefully for a reaction.
▪ You can feel the cold winds whipping across the barren island of Smuttynose as Maren relates her disturbing story.
▪ He has been charged with four counts of uttering death threats, only one of which is related to his short story.
▪ His narration is intelligent and affected, and as he relates her story, his own past and present become appallingly clear.
use
▪ An important problem relating to the use of goal analysis is that of reification.
▪ Can you relate this use of questions to the fact that you is deleted from abbreviated questions?
▪ Certainly there was in the P.Y.A. Quarries case, but the complaints there related to unreasonable uses.
▪ A code of conduct relating to the use of software acquired for educational purposes has been adopted by the University.
▪ The different soda, magnesia and phosphorus pentoxide levels can be related to the use of a different soda source.
▪ J happen somewhere, and the spaces must relate sensibly to convenient use.
work
▪ Option courses are available which examine issues relating to gender and work, gender and development and gender and politics.
▪ The image that has emerged is a bell-shaped curve of how people relate to their work over time.
▪ You will, of course, study all the written material relating to your work.
▪ It contains photographs and activities related to works of art for children ages 7 to 10.
▪ They will be asked to relate their seminar work to what is going on in their practice schools.
▪ She is surrounded by books and papers; her desk piled high with correspondence relating to her work.
▪ Furthermore, the balance of the domestic division of labour does not seem to be related to the work done by men.
▪ Training needs to be related to clear work demands.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
closely related/connected/associated etc
▪ Cuvier noticed that the most recently extinct creatures such as the mammoth were closely related to living species.
▪ However, a further ten shared elements show whales to be closely related to hippopotami.
▪ It is not isolated but closely connected with contemporary movements.
▪ Perhaps even more than is usual in the social sciences, theory is closely related to practice.
▪ Power strategies are closely related to power bases.
▪ The men are often in the home, doing work closely associated with women in most societies.
▪ These enormous structures vary with age and are closely related to the dominance of their owners in the hierarchy.
▪ This is closely related to item 3 above.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "I can't do a thing with my hair." "I can totally relate."
▪ Paige related the story of her legal battles in great detail.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the real questions are: How do such workers really relate to each other? and How effective is their performance?
▪ How do you relate to them?
▪ Pointers are used to explicitly relate elements of the model.
▪ The approach involves identifying variations in the functioning of target areas and relating those variations to known differences in cortical function.