Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a [adj] relationship with " in BNC.
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| 1 | The employer sought to establish a paternalistic relationship with his workers and would not tolerate attempts by outsiders ( e.g. trade union officials ) to participate in negotiations . |
| 2 | We also want to enjoy a long-term relationship with you . |
| 3 | He has formed a close relationship with a woman during his six months in Bosnia and now wants to end his 19-year marriage , the Sun newspaper reported today . |
| 4 | From an early age , it is fair to say that he has enjoyed an arm's-length relationship with reality . |
| 5 | Operations director Alan Brown has been with the company since 1969 , as chef , manager and director , so he has built a long-standing relationship with many of our clients . |
| 6 | The mink has had a chequered relationship with us , but we must remember that the changes are of our own making . |
| 7 | In the past this Association has had a good relationship with the DLO in Derry . |
| 8 | Judith is astonished , as she has had a difficult relationship with her mother , whom she feels has little maternal feeling . |
| 9 | ARGOS , the nationwide catalogue-retailing group which has had a volatile relationship with the City in recent months , regained its status as one of the sector stars yesterday with a better-than-expected 1992 performance and a cautiously optimistic view of the future . |
| 10 | Trans-Atlantic , which has experienced a stormy relationship with the Sun board , would demand a fancy price . |
| 11 | Sequent has cut a strategic relationship with Computer Associates that will put CA 's mainframe software on Symmetry 2000s . |
| 12 | Finally , the clinical teacher has to maintain a good relationship with patients and relatives . |
| 13 | And Phonelink has established a strategic relationship with IBM Corp . |
| 14 | We 'd got a good relationship with the council . ’ |
| 15 | However , Mr Clinton is looking to form a new relationship with Europe as a whole , following the collapse of Communism in the East . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This would not have been the only occasion on which the notion of brotherhood was used to imply a special relationship with Rome ; the people of Autun , for instance , regarded themselves as being brothers of the Romans , as did the men of the Auvergne . |
| 18 | Even if she is sympathetic , it does n't mean that she will automatically want to start a serious relationship with you just because she is gay . |
| 19 | A woman officer also recently admitted having a close relationship with a prisoner during rehearsals for a play which Mr. Lodge produced . |
| 20 | The chordate-like features of cornutes , which have been proposed to indicate a close relationship with chordates , arose by convergence . |
| 21 | Before this could happen X/Open would have to establish a formal relationship with the UN after meeting initial requirements , such as proving — to the UN 's satisfaction — its status as as a non-governmental , not-for-profit organisation . |
| 22 | Another exception to the proposed pattern , is the 34 acre town at Caister-by-Yarmouth ; this is the only town apart from Brough-on-Humber , which occupied an exposed position on the east coast , vulnerable to sea-raiders and it probably required this protection , but it must also have had a special relationship with the nearby Saxon Shore fort at Burgh Castle . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I imagine you 've long wanted to share a physical relationship with Radcliffe . |
| 25 | He was also believed to have a good relationship with Syrian leaders , especially Vice-President Abdel Halim Khaddam . |
| 26 | She resented having remarried , and his demands , for she had never intended to have a sexual relationship with him . |
| 27 | Many of the most powerful of the British pressure groups tend to have an established relationship with one or other political party . |
| 28 | Though we can not imagine that Innocent wrote all these , he appears to have had a close relationship with his chancery . |
| 29 | I had known this lady for many years and could claim to have had a friendly relationship with her . |
| 30 | There is plenty of psychoanalytical data to suggest that modern women do have a complicated relationship with sexuality involving guilt and pain of complex kinds ; inasmuch as these relationships constitute barriers in the growth of a person she should seek such healing as she may be able to find . |