Example sentences of "to have a [adj] relationship " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do not want to have a future relationship of United States and Latin America reproduced in South Africa , which so many people talk about now when they talk about South Africa as the engine of growth if we have that kind of growth it 'll be distorted and none of the poor in South Africa or the region will benefit from it . |
| 2 | What would be helpful perhaps is to have a close relationship with a mother-type figure who is not your mother . |
| 3 | ‘ We 're going to have a bicoastal relationship from now on , ’ she said . |
| 4 | I have to say , in comment to that , I do n't the know the the balance of statistics but I 've been a lone parent for , for ten years now , although I 've I 've pressed button , it was because for ten years of being able to have a stable relationship with my children , I 've got two very stable teenagers and during that , the course of that ten years I 've been disabled person as well , so yes there may be the case that there 's there 's trouble with the children of lone parent families , but I think there 's far too much emphasis on that nowadays ! |
| 5 | Yet it is possible to have a real relationship without such consciousness , just as it is possible to talk about God without being spiritual . |
| 6 | Whether one applies the older notion of a trend from less to more specialized or the newer concept of a trend from an r-to a K-selected adaptive strategy ( ecologists seem to have a love-hate relationship towards r and K selection ( Dawkins , 1981 ) ) , the phyletically younger organisms would have become progressively more vulnerable to environmental disturbance . |
| 7 | The girl is said to have a poor relationship with her father and the prospect that he might return to the family home , after a period of estrangement from his wife , prompted her action under the 1989 Children Act . |
| 8 | ‘ Producers and consumers ought to have a simple relationship — supply and demand , ’ says chairperson of the NCC , Lady Wilcox . |
| 9 | Since getting older I 've sometimes hoped for someone with whom to have a good relationship . |
| 10 | Recovering drug addict Jamie , 38 , says he is determined to have a good relationship with his son and break the ‘ bad luck ’ that has cursed the family for years . |
| 11 | They seemed to have a good relationship , agree about most things , and never , never row — at least , not in front of the children . |
| 12 | Moreover there is a notable tendency to be selective , in that one positively elects to assist a particular aunt , nephew or cousin , with whom one happens to have a good relationship . |
| 13 | Very often there will be an exagerated catastrophic image or fantasy at the back of the client 's mind ( i.e. , ‘ I 'm unlovable and will never be able to have a good relationship ’ , or , ‘ I 'm not as good as anybody else ’ , or , ‘ This job is too difficult for me , I ca n't cope with it ’ , etc . ) |
| 14 | He was also believed to have a good relationship with Syrian leaders , especially Vice-President Abdel Halim Khaddam . |
| 15 | erm There 's always an ambivalence in the relationship between governors and schools in that , in order to have a good relationship with a head , you need to be on friendly terms with him so that the head , or her , so that the head will communicate with the governors . |
| 16 | We at Holy Cross were able to have a happy relationship with the Baptists at Judson College , and I was invited to give a regular course in the comparative study of religion , which I attempted to do in the way which would now be described as that of dialogue . |
| 17 | In a recent interview Cadieux said : ‘ I like the viewer to be involved in an image , to have a physical relationship with the work : it is very frontal . |
| 18 | In a strange way these people identified with ‘ them ’ ( owners and managers ) , whom they admired , but their own dreams of independence interposed and there was no wish to have a sustained relationship with a particular firm . |
| 19 | And in a third sense , literature is thought by many structuralists to have a special relationship to language , in that it involves a unique awareness of the nature of language itself . |
| 20 | Just how successful the campaign has been in straight money terms ( costs per account opened ) is unclear but the advertising is undoubtedly asking to have a different relationship with the viewer than the more passive tradition of the medium . |
| 21 | Weight loss has been found to have a direct relationship to the amount of exercise taken . |
| 22 | She resented having remarried , and his demands , for she had never intended to have a sexual relationship with him . |
| 23 | ‘ I feel I have enough information to have a sexual relationship when the time is right . |
| 24 | Rhys Morris , senior probation officer at Gwent , said : ‘ A probation officer is not allowed to have a sexual relationship with one of their clients . |