Example sentences of "[noun] have had a [adj] relationship " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past this Association has had a good relationship with the DLO in Derry . |
| 2 | It must have been obvious to the jury that these witnesses were in a special position , one as the husband of a woman with whom the defendant had had an intimate relationship and the other as the sister of the deceased , whom the defendant had shot , according to himself , accidentally . |
| 3 | Deborah 's parents had had a tumultuous relationship in which frequent violent arguments would be followed by tender love scenes . |
| 4 | The event might not have any obvious long-term adverse significance and may in fact have seemingly positive rather than negative features , such as the reappearance and request to renew contact with a lover with whom a person had had an intense relationship a few years earlier . |
| 5 | The mink has had a chequered relationship with us , but we must remember that the changes are of our own making . |
| 6 | ‘ In the past , the industry and the government have had an adversarial relationship in this area ’ , says Colucci . |
| 7 | Both feminists and contemporary philosophers in England and America have had an uneasy relationship with psychoanalytic theory . |