Example sentences of "to resort to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although biological methods of pest control such as Bacillus thuringiensis ( for caterpillars ) are now available to committed organic gardeners , there are few of us who never need to resort to the use of chemicals . |
| 2 | To take this road is to resort to what I earlier described as the ‘ most primitive physicalist response ’ to the problem , which involves denying that there is anything about the nature of experience that BS does not know . |
| 3 | ‘ A good example of the sort of player who should be a great beneficiary of this scheme is James Lenton — a tremendously hard worker who has struggled financially and once even had to quit to resort to coaching , ’ Lewis added . |
| 4 | It is surely no coincidence that while Mrs Donaldson proudly signs her own name , P A Newton sees fit to resort to the utterly immature tactic of hiding behind a transparently obvious alias . |
| 5 | By 1983 , although the weaknesses of the programme were increasingly acknowledged within the party , the government 's response was to resort to more authoritarian methods of ‘ policing ’ the villages . |
| 6 | Moran felt so outside their circle of concentration that he had to resort to tiptoeing into the room in an exaggerated parody of someone trying to enter unheard but his only audience was the boy , and that not often , and laughter only lifted the girls ' heads from their books for a forgotten moment . |
| 7 | If this tactic fails then I 'm afraid you 'll have to resort to the leger . |
| 8 | Labour 's transport spokesman , Mr John Prescott said the salary was a ‘ kick in the teeth ’ for railway workers who had to resort to industrial action to get an 8.8 per cent rise during the summer . |
| 9 | ‘ The Syrian forces could , if they wanted , speedily resolve the problem of Gen Aoun in Lebanon through military means , but the Syrian leadership is fully convinced there will be no need to resort to this as Gen Aoun 's removal is a matter of time and will take place quickly through political means . ’ . |
| 10 | Mr William Farley , who acquired a slew of manufacturing companies with junk-bond financing arranged by Drexel , has had to resort to a bridging loan from banks to finance his acquisition of West Point-Pepperell , a textile giant . |
| 11 | Otherwise , junk issuers wanting to cut their debt might have to resort to the bankruptcy courts to encourage their debt-holders to accept stock . |
| 12 | The theological term for this is analogia fidei ; that is to say , when we talk of eternal verities we have to resort to pictures , stories and other analogical expressions . |
| 13 | In the past few years Broderick has been faced with a similar , if less epic problem : simply how to grow up on screen , how to graduate from the early ‘ smart kid ’ roles in War Games and Ferris Bueller 's Day Off which have so far intended to resort to a tour of duty in a Vietnam movie or wearing a false moustache in a cop drama to prove their ‘ maturity ’ as actors . |
| 14 | Although it is still legal to resort to the matches this season , provided the job is done properly , a late harvest followed by a wet autumn could come as a nasty reminder that cereal-growing is not the doddle many would have us believe . |
| 15 | Lineage solidarity was perhaps the reason people told an idealized history , one consisting of the rights and duties a man had and met , rather than the devices he had to resort to , to survive . |
| 16 | Annoyingly , youngsters were playing games in the lifts , and we had to resort to the stairs . |
| 17 | The Scots rebelled and Charles I had to raise more money for an army to quell the uprising and for funds he had to resort to Parliament who demanded the removal of both Archbishop Laud and the Earl of Stafford . |
| 18 | One has to resort to Fraser McLuskey 's memoir for the explanation that the bodies were indeed R.A.F. and American crewmen , and for a moving account of their dignified burial by the Padre himself almost within sight of the enemy . |
| 19 | This has placed the burden of keeping the Mark systematically undervalued on the central banks of the poorer countries , who often have to resort to borrowing to finance their currency-support interventions . |
| 20 | Will my wife have to resort to Damart longjohns ? |
| 21 | The company were unable to sell the redundant equipment and finally had to resort to paying for it to be broken up and taken away for scrap : a sad end to a long and honourable career . |
| 22 | ONE of SAVE 's strongest suits has been the readiness , when all other alternatives have been exhausted , to resort to legal action . |
| 23 | The Court held , however , that the phrase ‘ in accordance with law ’ means that the law ‘ must be sufficiently clear in its terms to give citizens an adequate indication as to the circumstances in which and the conditions on which public authorities are empowered to resort to this secret and potentially dangerous interference with the right to respect for private life and correspondence . |
| 24 | In the case of the 1902 eruption of Mt Pelee there is no need to resort to such artificial comparisons , because the eruption does in fact form the basis of an opera , known as The Violins of St Jacques , which has been performed in London within the last few years . |
| 25 | In the event , the government had to resort to Article 110 of the law , which comes into operation when there is a shortage of foreign exchange at the rates determined by the National Bank . |
| 26 | A violent headache can be safely dissolved within minutes without having to resort to aspirin or paracetamol with their accompanying side-effects . |
| 27 | In some cases it may be necessary to resort to three or four injections of short-acting insulin . |
| 28 | If , for example , a mother has been forced to resort to repetitious shouting , whining appeals and querulous naggings , the child can be said to have learned — learned to ‘ turn off ’ what is being said . |
| 29 | It is a peculiar expression but one that managers are often forced to resort to when players go too far . |
| 30 | As noted in Chapter 2 the real problem for most LDCs is the inadequacy of domestic savings in relation to investment needs , thus the need to resort to external finance . |