"bear a relationship" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to indicate that two or more things are connected in some way. For example, "The themes in this novel bear a relationship to the author's own life experiences."
The physical processes in ICF bear a relationship to those in thermonuclear weapons and in star formation namely, collapse, compression heating, and the onset of nuclear fusion.
"Having said that, the volume of money that the government puts aside for such programs has to bear a relationship to the fiscal situation of the country, nobody is denying that," Mr. Raghavan said.
And when the lease does provide for late charges, he said, the charge must be "reasonable and nonpunitive" and must bear a relationship to the amount of rent and expenses involved.
Polybius in his Histories remarked that "from this point onwards history becomes an organic whole: the affairs of Italy and Africa are connected with those of Asia and of Greece, and all events bear a relationship and contribute to a single end".
There is thus evidence that the different response patterns among the Clusters, in terms of organogenetic and growth vigour, bear a relationship with the regulation of soluble sugar levels under drought, but too little information is currently available for functional interpretation.
They bear a relationship to the credences of rational agents; the circularity concern, as we saw above, is that the relationship is vacuous, and that rather than constraining the credences of a rational agent in an epistemically neutral position, they merely record them.
Is the attack on Mr. Singh an event that bears a relationship to incidents of violence against minorities around the globe?
Mr. Sondheim bears a relationship to his vocation that is unlike that of any artist in any other field.
But they cannot deny an applicant a job on the basis of a conviction without considering whether the offense bears a relationship to the job being sought.
Her favorite museum is the Barnes Foundation outside Philadelphia, and its eclectic collection, hung salon-style, bears a relationship to the way Ms. Owens juxtaposes different genres within her paintings.
Finally, fecundity bears a relationship with yearly number of clutches and most Tropidurinae species are able to produce more than a clutch per year [53], but we are unaware of studies addressing how this latter variable bears dependence on precipitation patterns.
