Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] relation [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The next year he returned to the Foreign Office as Deputy Under-Secretary , with special responsibility for relations with the USSR and Eastern Europe .
2 Across the table sat the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits ( ARATS ) , a Beijing front organisation set up to give the SEF a liaison partner .
3 On Dec. 16 China established a non-governmental Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits ( ARATS ) to promote exchanges and co-operation between China and Taiwan .
4 The SEF 's mainland counterpart , the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits , said on Jan. 20 that Lee was a " wanted criminal " .
5 The two bodies , Taiwan 's Straits Exchange Foundation , and China 's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits , failed to reach an agreement on the issue of document verification and registered mail .
6 While Uvarov 's periodization is obviously too clear cut , it is nevertheless true that Speranskii 's reform of the territory 's administration — including the operation of the exile system and the regularization of relations with the Siberian natives — created , in theory , if not always in practice , a more rational and equitable framework for the government and management of the Siberian lands which remained more or less in situ until the upheavals of 1917 .
7 In the present case we shall take the view that the perception of two distinct types of phrase here can be explained rather simply by a divergence of relation at the intensional level .
8 there not being in force in relation to the use of that vehicle
9 ’ there not being in force in relation to the use of that vehicle ‘ This phrase means that there is no insurance cover in force relating to the use of the vehicle as opposed to insurance covering the contents for example .
10 ’ there not being in force in relation to the use of that vehicle ‘ The proof of insurance falls to the defence once it has been established by the prosecution that the motor vehicle has been used on a road ( Philcox v Carberry [ 1960 ] Crim LR 563 ) .
11 What is more , on an international comparative basis the level of investment in relation to the achieved rate of growth was not low in the UK — indeed , it was on average three times the German level over the late 1960s and early 1970s [ Cairncross et al. , 1977 ; Williams , 1962 ] .
12 … The problem is whether in the present case , which arises out of the use by the defendant of a motor car on a public highway , the circumstances produced such a relationship between the defendant and the infant plaintiff as to impose a duty on the defendant in relation to the plaintiff .
13 ‘ Those circumstances , accordingly , constituted a potential relationship capable of imposing a duty on the defendant in relation to the child if and when born .
14 On the birth the relationship crystallised and out of it arose a duty on the defendant in relation to the child .
15 ‘ Those circumstances , accordingly , constituted a potential relationship capable of imposing a duty on the defendant in relation to the child if and when born .
16 On the birth the relationship crystallised and out of it arose a duty on the defendant in relation to the child .
17 It 's er unfortunately the case that relations between the partners broke down and this led in due course to proceedings being commenced by the plaintiffs against the defendant in relation to the dissolution of the partners , those proceedings were commenced in nineteen eighty nine , , er in the High Court Chancery Division , there were a number of issues raised in the litigation , one of the matters was a preliminary issue , er concerning the terms of the partnership and that came before er Mr Justice on the eighteenth of February nineteen ninety one , whereby he found in favour effectively of the defendant on that preliminary issue er the plaintiffs it seems were then claiming that partnership , the partnership at will , but Mr Justice held that they were part of the terms of the particular er partnership deed , so the defendants succeeded on that issue , the trial of the action then followed on the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one and er Mr Justice made an order for dissolution of the partnership , he then give various directions for accountant enquiries concerning the partnership and he made orders for payments of costs , now the orders for costs were this , that effectively the defendant was entitled to some costs of the preliminary issue and that the plaintiffs were entitled to costs of the er ma if I may put it this way , the main action , and there was then the provision for , set off for the defendant 's costs against the costs ordered to be paid by the defendant , perfectly normal form of order .
18 Before moving on to discuss the process of loss in relation to the death of someone close to us , it is helpful to look at a less significant but nevertheless important and unexpected loss and see our reaction there .
19 There was no discernible change in the pattern of pyloric loss in relation to the smoking of a single cigarette .
20 The two can also be seen to be linked in that the principles involved in the doctrine of reprisals ( which is considered to form part of the jus in bello ) are essentially the same as those of the doctrine of self-defence in relation to the initiation of conflict .
21 This would mean that the federal share of the total budget revenue in relation to the two republics would be reduced from 50 per cent to 33 per cent .
22 A 16-year-old black youth , Lemrick Nelson , was later charged with second-degree murder in relation to the stabbing .
23 This is an emotive case , which has been subject to a full investigation by the special investigation branch of the Royal Military Police , and disciplinary action has been taken against the soldier in relation to the allegations .
24 Almost all of the basic principles of his utilitarian programme in relation to the criminal justice system can be traced back to Dei Delitti e delle Pene .
25 The vice of uncertainty in relation to the duration of a term is that the parties do not know where they stand .
26 As well as advising on the strategic focus of the bid in relation to the target 's shareholders and the market , the opportunity might be taken to raise the public profile of the offeror generally .
27 Other organisations are also involved in research in relation to the mountain and hill areas — the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology , the Forestry Commission , the Countryside Commission , and several university departments .
28 Taxation on importation , on the other hand , would impose a considerable fiscal burden on the importer , which would put the European markets at a severe disadvantage in relation to the US and Switzerland .
29 The Fontainebleau Agreement of 1984 in addition to enhancing the resources of the EC by increasing the VAT ceiling to 1.4 per cent , also addressed the issue of equity in relation to the UK 's net contribution ( see Denton 1984 ) .
30 The truth of the matter is , I am sure , that the so-called " fusion " of law and equity was a procedural matter and ( save incidentally and because procedural matters can not under our system sensibly be divorced from substantive law ) the function of equity in relation to the common law was not thereby changed .
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