Example sentences of "relation [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A PUBLIC relations adviser to David Mellor tried to stop the Minister 's ex-lover Antonia de Sancha from talking live on TV yesterday .
2 Her programme included electoral reform , housing allocation according to need and based on a points system , the extension of the Race Relations Act to Northern Ireland , and the provision of employment through state investment .
3 The Takeover Panel has criticised Burson-Marsteller , public relations consultants to aerospace and electronics group Dowty , for unauthorised conversations with certain journalists and investment analysts during the course of the bid from engineering group TI .
4 Like most therapists , I have been inspired by countless different sources — from metaphysics to Buddhism , from object relations theory to Jung , from Gestalt therapy to psychosynthesis , from mysticism to shamanism .
5 Suppose it is known that a certain element A stands in a relation R to a second element B. If R is an asymmetric relation , then it necessarily follows that B does not stand in the relation R to A ( the relation of B to A in that case is the converse of R ) .
6 If every occurrence of X stands in the relation R to Y , and every occurrence of Y stands in the relation R ( or its converse , if R is asymmetric ) to X , then we shall say that X is a congruent R of Y :
7 If every occurrence of X stands in the relation R to Y , but there are occurrences of Y which do not stand in the relation R to X , then we shall say that X is a hypo-R of Y , and Y a super-R of X :
8 If some , but not all , occurrences of X stand in the relation R to Y , and some , but not all , occurrences of Y stand in the relation R to X , then we shall say that X and Y are semi-Rs :
9 Obviously , if no occurrences of X stand in the relation R to Y , then X is not any kind of R of Y , so disjunction has no counterpart among congruence variants .
10 If every occurrence of X stands in the relation R to Y , but there are occurrences of Y which do not stand in the relation R to X , then we shall say that X is a hypo-R of Y , and Y a super-R of X :
11 If some , but not all , occurrences of X stand in the relation R to Y , and some , but not all , occurrences of Y stand in the relation R to X , then we shall say that X and Y are semi-Rs :
12 All we know about As , for example , is that they have relation to R to Bs , relation R' to Cs , relation R'' to Ds , etc ; and similarly for our understanding of Bs , Cs and Ds , and the variety of Rs .
13 All we know about As , for example , is that they have relation to R to Bs , relation R' to Cs , relation R'' to Ds , etc ; and similarly for our understanding of Bs , Cs and Ds , and the variety of Rs .
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