1.   Everyone in Knockglen heard about it in record time, but what they heard bore little relation to the facts.

2.   I was astonished when I read the press release, which bore no relation to what I had told them.

3.   It bore no relation to the equivalent of aerodynamic facts, namely, anthropological evidence as a whole.

4.   The picture bore no relation to the blotchy, snotty, shouting face of angry childhood.

5.   It was only now that she began to realise that her feelings bore no relation to what she was experiencing now, with this man.

6.   Because we found that the fun factor in pulling the crackers bore no relation to their cost.

7.   It bore no relation to legal proceedings in the rest of China, where constitutional arguments are unheard of and the common law does not exist.

8.   Its staffing cuts bore no relation to U.S. interests.

9.   The firm that was sold to Travelers on Tuesday for twice its book value bore no relation to the firm I once worked for and wrote about.

10.   This was especially so in the tech-laden Nasdaq market, where valuations for many newly public Internet companies bore no relation to reality.