Example sentences of "[vb past] rely on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of complaints by business about the pound 's appreciation ( in May 1979 its effective exchange rate was 81.3 per cent and in January 1982 it was 92 per cent of its 1975 rate ) the government came to rely on a strong pound as part of its anti-inflation strategy . |
| 2 | Britain usually send six or seven for the relay team but for Los Angeles the selectors decided to rely on the sprinters that had been picked for the individual events . |
| 3 | Whether the victim did rely on the representation must be left for the jury : Attewell-Hughes ( 1991 ) 93 Cr App R 132 ( CA ) . |
| 4 | As in the first phase of its activity , it sought to rely on a mix of massive public protest with occasional more direct forms of action . |
| 5 | In the result they sought to rely on a very undefined rule of confidentiality that had recently been confirmed in relation to the suppression of memoirs by the Duke of Argyll about his wife 's life , and in one or two other very dissimilar instances . |
| 6 | The tenant having died , his daughter sought to rely on the provisions which would give her the right to succeed to the statutory tenancy . |
| 7 | The prosecutor sought to rely on the words of Winn L.J . |
| 8 | The defendants sought to rely on an exclusion clause which stated that liability for terms implied by statute was excluded ; one of these terms was that goods must comply with their description . |
| 9 | In McCrone the proponent sought to rely on an exclusion clause in its standard terms of trading which , it alleged , had been incorporated into the contract by a course of dealing . |
| 10 | Marx and Engels , like all their contemporaries , including anthropologists and archaeologists and Morgan in particular , felt that information gained about contemporary peoples whose life depended on a simple technology was valid for understanding the social institutions of prehistoric populations who had relied on a similar technology . |
| 11 | He explained that the programme makers had relied on a handful of people whose experience and view of the holiday camp were not representative of the resort as a whole or the experience of the vast majority of holidaymakers . |
| 12 | All were owned by the city of Weimar which , unable to afford the insurance premium , had relied on a private security firm and improved alarms to guard the valuable works . |
| 13 | The appeal to the EAT was based on the issue of whether the Tribunal had relied on a correct statement of the law when it referred to an excerpt from Harvey on Industrial Relations and Employment Law ( based on the EAT decision in Richmond Precision Engineering v Pearce ( [ 1985 ] IRLR 179 ) which stated that ‘ [ t ] he crucial question is whether the terms offered were those which a reasonable employer could offer ’ . |
| 14 | Furthermore , as Henry VIII had relied on the authority of scripture to justify his annulment , it was difficult for him to resist pressure for the translation of the Bible into English , or demands that doctrine and liturgy should conform to the word of God as revealed in the scriptures . |
| 15 | Because the reasoning in those decisions had relied on the reasoning in Rex v. Sheridan [ 1937 ] 1 K.B . |
| 16 | Le Monde of June 9-10 estimated that in the 50 major , policy-determining laws of the 270 passed during Rocard 's term as Prime Minister , Rocard had relied on the support of the right and centre nearly three times as often as he relied on the PCF . |
| 17 | He does , indeed , make an attempt to meet this difficulty , by alleging , in the replication to the fourth plea , that he married relying on the testator 's promise ; but he shrinks from alleging , that though he had promised to marry before the testator 's promise to him , nevertheless , he would have broken his engagement , and would not have married without the testator 's promise . |
| 18 | There was as yet no uniformity of practice among local authorities , who continued to rely on a wide variety of examining methods , though more had turned to external test agencies — organisations or examiners — than in the past . |
| 19 | But in the end they had to rely on a Tottenham error for a glimmer of home . |
| 20 | The Carey family had to rely on a house provided by a Bengali moneylender to save them from destitution . |
| 21 | The SJP lads had to rely on a topsy-turvy 6–21 , 21–8 , 22–20 victory for league stalwart John Wickers over Peter Hance to secure their share of the points from the last game of the evening . |
| 22 | He had to rely on a kind-hearted local butcher who gave him two chickens a week to build up his strength . |
| 23 | To cover the areas of special interest that Gould had been unable to investigate personally , he had to rely on a network of collectors he had recruited in the course of his travels . |
| 24 | Whether or not the subject of a mosaic was chosen by the client , the mosaicist had to rely on a number of aids and methodical practices when organising his work . |
| 25 | They need her for longer , but there 's no money available ; because of a shortage of funds , they had to rely on a charity to provide a … until they had pit he was in hospital with a chest infection every 2 weeks . |
| 26 | He had to rely on a passer-by to let him out . |
| 27 | For lack of sufficient members in the countryside , the party had to rely on the most lively agents to effect smychka between itself and the masses . |
| 28 | Here were people who shared his ideals and had the financial support of government and industry , while his endeavours had to rely on the begging bowl . |
| 29 | Lacking reliable counter-sources , the Americans had to rely on the world as constructed by Manucher Ghorbanifar . |
| 30 | Households with less privately-owned land which had to rely on the ‘ public economy ’ ( the forest ) for livestock rearing rather than private land , were less willing to see restrictions placed upon access to forests or to others ' private land for stubble grazing in cases where fodder tree planting on terrace backs was being advocated . |