Example sentences of "a closer relationship " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would inevitably lead to a closer relationship between the government of the Republic and the people of Ulster . |
| 2 | We have a closer relationship with North America , but , like Canada , we have no wish to rejoin our former American colonies as the fifty-first State of the Union , despite our common Anglo-Saxon heritage . |
| 3 | The high per capita costs of ensuring these services , and the provision of subsidies from central government may be easier to justify where there is a closer relationship between farming and other activities . |
| 4 | As Donald J. Olsen has written : ‘ With the possible exception of Canada , Britain has seen a closer relationship between railways and hotels than any other country . ’ |
| 5 | Mr Cooper identifies as the major single benefit of EDI a closer relationship between supplier and customer , rather on the Japanese model . |
| 6 | What the Bank wanted was a closer relationship with banks ' auditors . |
| 7 | Various proposals were agreed for developing a closer relationship between auditors and the Bank , but the question of volunteering information to the Bank proved a difficult one . |
| 8 | Pirgos ware bears a closer relationship with late neolithic wares made on the Greek mainland and in the Cyclades than with any Cretan forerunners , and the style may have been imported ( Figure 32A ) . |
| 9 | 1973 ) , has also resulted in a closer relationship between the disenfranchised and the solicitors . |
| 10 | They are morphologically wild , but the lipid fraction of the sorghum grains shows a closer relationship to domesticated than to wild varieties . |
| 11 | The majority of molecular studies support a closer relationship between chimpanzees and humans , with gorillas more distantly related ( see Box 1 ) , but some molecular studies support the alternative of closer relationship between chimpanzees and gorillas , with humans the sister group to the combined African apes . |
| 12 | Toby continued : ‘ As for this Harley business , we now know that there has been a closer relationship between Martinez and Jefferson over the years than the normal one of agent and manufacturer . |
| 13 | Although it does n't admit to doing anything more than ‘ looking at the technology ’ presently , indicators suggest ICL may develop a closer relationship with HyperSparc in future . |
| 14 | Although a closer relationship with the Silicon Graphics Inc/MIPS unit would seem the most plausible direction for CDC , it has shunned this route . |
| 15 | Although the UK company is presently just a European outlet for Pinnacle 's products , there are on-going talks between the two about formalising a closer relationship . |
| 16 | Just as Paris was to be linked to the sea via the Seine estuary after Philip 's conquest of Normandy , so the emergent capital of Capetian France was brought into a closer relationship to the wealth of the Low Countries through the absorption of Artois . |
| 17 | Henry III 's rapprochement with Louis IX between 1254 and 1259 had brought the two courts into a closer relationship , while the diplomatic and juridical presence at Paris which it necessitated thereafter strengthened English connections with northern France . |
| 18 | Another diplomatic marriage was that which attempted to bring the house of Foix into a closer relationship with the French crown and with the great families of northern France . |
| 19 | The new legislation requires a closer relationship between employers and inspectors . |
| 20 | It was still , however , dynastic and political considerations rather than religion which began drawing Picts and Scots into a closer relationship . |
| 21 | Or — to continue with the EC example — countries from outside Europe ( in Africa , for instance ) enjoy a closer relationship as associate member countries than European countries belonging to the other major economic grouping , EFTA — the European Free Trade Association . |
| 22 | Private property , as an institution , effects not a closer relationship between people and objects , as is often thought , but a greater separation than was hitherto possible . |
| 23 | ‘ Now Maman has Montaine to herself , ’ Jean-Claude said without expression , adding that it would be a closer relationship than she had had with Montaine in life . |
| 24 | Both management and operatives are locked into a closer relationship , with both mutual benefits and disadvantages . |
| 25 | Was that why John drew back from a closer relationship ? |
| 26 | In the immediate aftermath of Castro 's January 1959 victory neither the Soviet Union nor Cuba evinced any great interest in the forging of a closer relationship . |
| 27 | Whatever the division among teachers about aspects of the new curriculum , most found that it has brought them into a closer relationship with the school library : |
| 28 | It is perhaps a closer relationship after all . |
| 29 | She had never given any indication of a closer relationship . |
| 30 | South Korea 's " northward diplomacy " , which had come into being during late 1988 as part of its strategy for achieving a closer relationship with North Korea , was pursued assiduously during 1989 and with notable success towards the end of that year [ see also pp. 37041 ; 37089 ] . |