Example sentences of "[art] relation to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been told that er everything 's done in , in the relation to the trustee but of course when you 're talking about massive sums of one point seven billion , our members er who are seventy five/eighty olds who suffered the problem of the inflatory years , their pensions have n't kept , kept pace with the with the people that are retiring now . |
| 2 | The neurosis of humanity arose out of the relation to the father , just as it does for the child . |
| 3 | The use just discussed bears a relation to the occurrence of the bare infinitive after the expressions rather than and sooner than : ( 32 ) He paid the fine rather than appeal to a higher court . |
| 4 | A conservative could adduce , in support of this contention , the fact that in scripture God is overwhelmingly conceptualized by using male metaphors ; that God came in Christ , a male human person ; and that he chose men alone to head the church ( if one thinks that the calling of the twelve bears a relation to the constitution of the church ) . |
| 5 | It asks us to perceive Renaissance literature in a relation to the power exercised by the state 's dominant political institutions . |
| 6 | If news bore little or no relation to a person 's experience , then it might not be remembered . |
| 7 | Interestingly , the existence of collective action problems of this kind bears little or no relation to the preference intensities of the actors . |
| 8 | I had been a thing of firm , clear outlines ; now I seemed to splay out in all directions and to have assumed a shape , thanks to undue accretions of flesh , which bore no relation to the person I believed to exist within it . |
| 9 | Television has quickly become the most powerful medium , yet almost all its programme content is imported and bears no relation to the culture and traditions of the Pacific islanders . |
| 10 | The poll tax bore no relation to the ability to pay , offered no accountability because of capping and limits set by the Secretary of State , and imposed a 20 per cent . |
| 11 | He bore no relation to the man she 'd had the misfortune to come into contact with at the weekend . |
| 12 | The bottom class — Standard One was taught by Miss Smith ( no relation to the Standard Three Master ) . |
| 13 | This is not to say that , as a religious person who is not a Christian , one has no relation to the past . |
| 14 | Indeed it may well be that it would be impossible to stand in no relation to the past , or to the framework in which one 's mind and one 's awareness as a religious person were formed . |
| 15 | An investigation of the Directorate published in Izvestiya of Oct. 22 , 1992 , revealed that the October 1991 order to form it from the troops of the Russian Interior Ministry was unknown to Supreme Soviet deputies ; that its personnel was armed and " in exceptional circumstances " could distribute its arms to people 's deputies ; that it guarded about 75 buildings in Moscow , " two-thirds of which have absolutely no relation to the parliament " ; and that it came under the jurisdiction only of the parliamentary Chairman . |
| 16 | We wish it to be known that the mosquito is no relation to the Gadfly . |
| 17 | Did I want to support Newcastle singer Martin ( no relation to the guitar ) Stephenson on his Highland tour ? |
| 18 | The picture bore no relation to the blotchy , snotty , shouting face of angry childhood . |
| 19 | The scene she had envisaged before she 'd come of herself apologising nicely , and thanking him , of Leo smiling gently , bore absolutely no relation to the reality . |
| 20 | Hence the pattern of group organization bears little or no relation to the distribution of intense or apathetic preferences among voters . |
| 21 | Hence the amount of Business Rate each local authority receives will bear no relation to the amount actually collected in each area . |
| 22 | It bore no relation to the Charter , it was n't irreverent and anti-establishment , the pictures were n't strong enough , it did not have enough on ethnicity or women , it was n't exciting , different , political or inspirational . |
| 23 | The list also contains a very few phrases which apparently have no equivalents ( " soap opera " " Z cars " " facts of life " ) , but are included on the grounds that their constituent words have no relation to the meaning of the phrase . |
| 24 | The written down value has no relation to the market value of an asset and thus there can be a profit or loss in the accounts when it is sold . |
| 25 | The written down value has no relation to the market value of an asset and thus there can be a profit or loss in the accounts when it is sold . |
| 26 | She went into the corridor , hurrying as though she did not know very well that she was simply being transferred to another waiting chair , that the urgency of their voices bore no relation to the speed of their , or anyway her , movements . |
| 27 | ‘ No relation to the poet ? ’ the archaeologist asked . |