Example sentences of "[prep] relation to her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speaking of this phenomenon in relation to her choice of Titian 's ‘ Bacchus and Ariadne ’ , Riley explained : ‘ By plastic I mean that which hangs between the cognitive reading of an image and its perception . |
| 2 | But even so , even though she was sure Rosemary must be exaggerating , her remarks about her being too glamorous in relation to her work place nagged away at her . |
| 3 | So all we have to do is to tell the Governor-General of Canada to behave in relation to his local Parliament exactly as our monarch at home behaves in relation to her Parliament of the United Kingdom . ’ |
| 4 | It was then that I was struck by another passage in Mothers and Daughters : ‘ As the middle- aged daughter develops reasonable expectations of her ageing mother , she will be able to develop reasonable self-expectations in relation to her daughter . |
| 5 | But after a day of submissions , in private , by lawyers acting for the girl , her parents and the mother of the 18-year-old boyfriend , the judge told the Press in open court that the girl 's mother had instituted ward-of-court proceedings in relation to her daughter . |
| 6 | She stopped trying to move herself voluntarily , and relied on nurses to move her arm and leg for her , so that their task was to ensure that she was always correctly positioned in relation to her spasticity , after they had performed the normal nursing duties of bathing her and helping her on and off the commode . |
| 7 | Harold Wilson was , when he might have been better engaged in the affairs of the nation , extremely solicitous in seeing that arrangements were made for Marcia Williams , particularly in relation to her progeny . |
| 8 | Yet the poet often sees her appearance in relation to her poverty , as one manifestation of a generally bleak and constrained way of life . |
| 9 | By part I of the Law Reform ( Married Women and Tortfeasors ) Act 1935 , a married woman was put into the same position as a man with respect to her proprietary and contractual capacity , and , except in relation to her husband , with respect to her liability for torts . |
| 10 | He met her incredulous stare blandly , for all the world as if he had no recollection whatsoever of bringing her the Palmer & Pearson file outside the office , of discussing the Norwood & Chambers contract outside the office , of his threats in relation to her job outside the office . |
| 11 | Freud cites one young man in relation to his father and another in relation to his twin , as well as the main case , a young woman in relation to her mother : ‘ It , then , the girl became homosexual and left men to her mother ( in other words ‘ retired in favour of' ’ her mother ) , she would hitherto remove something which had hitherto been partly responsible for her mother 's dislike' ( ix . |