Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Could it be relied on to work well in the United Kingdom ? |
| 32 | … whether a valuation … is binding … must depend on the terms of the contract ( including any implied terms ) , on the nature of any circumstances relied on to vitiate the valuation , and the nature of the proceedings on which the issue arises . |
| 33 | Two passages are relied on to support that view from judgments of Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. in recent cases . |
| 34 | I hold that on an appeal to the High Court under the Children Act 1989 the only findings of fact and the only reasons that may be relied on to support the decision of the justices under appeal , are those announced by the justices in accordance with rule 21 . |
| 35 | The argument relied on to support that submission is set out in the judgment in the following passage : ‘ The argument there is that on their arrival there is no home and there is no financial support forthcoming from the plaintiff who himself lives on state benefits . |
| 36 | A member with a holding of a similar size will be quite unable to present a credible challenge to the board because in any contested vote the bulk of shareholders who bother to participate can be relied on to support the incumbent management team . |
| 37 | Under Ord 18 , r8 the plaintiff must plead both the claim for provisional damages and the facts relied on to support it as specified by s32A of the Supreme Court Act 1981 . |
| 38 | The curious facts of Ipswich v Fisons were being relied on to support the distinction . |
| 39 | In the following Experiment 2.3 various colours were used to test how far the eye can be relied on to judge backgrounds in the circumstances under which the eventual instrument would be used . |
| 40 | But where the pre-existing obligation is a contractual duty owed to a third party , some other ground of public policy must be relied on to invalidate the consideration ( if otherwise legal ) … |
| 41 | There was no major saint-cult which could be relied on to bolster episcopal power . |
| 42 | If previous experience is any guide , politicians can not be relied on to lead that debate . |
| 43 | This could be relied on to throw up ‘ bad ’ as well as ‘ good ’ factors . |
| 44 | She had an eye for talent which they respected , she knew how to pick her designers , and could be relied on to spot a trend developing and to promote it . |
| 45 | They could n't be relied on to cope with the situation and our safety at the same time . |
| 46 | The Doctor , the guy with the blue box , could normally be relied on to deal with problems of this magnitude , but on this occasion he had apparently failed to understand that Pool was made of human brains and was in any case crazy . |
| 47 | Helen who had been there years and years , knew all the ropes , could be relied on to deal tactfully with difficult customers , with the intransigence of the county library system , with errant books and tiresome children . |
| 48 | In Colombia , many of the peasants were persuaded to give up their coffee and cocoa trees , which though not highly productive , could be relied on to produce and , instead , to take up seasonal crops such as corn , soybeans and tomatoes . |
| 49 | The initial writ requires to identify the licensing board 's failures and specify the circumstances which are relied on to show that the hoard erred ; it is not sufficient to recite without specification all the statutory grounds of appeal ( Sutherland v. City of Edinburgh District Licensing Board , 1984 S.L.T. 241 ) . |
| 50 | Free-scoring Ally McCoist has a modest international record — only 13 goals from 43 games — and no-one else can be relied on to fire the bullets . |
| 51 | His father was a German-Jewish refugee and his mother Welsh , but Wartberg was an aggressive anglophile , given to wearing tweed suits and blathering on about flower growing , law and order , the decline of British standards ( he had just obtained one for his best-selling valve ) , the prohibitive business rate and so on . |
| 52 | As this subject could well come up again during the current academic year , the pages were downloaded on to disk , so that they could be consulted off-line without incurring further expense . |
| 53 | This hope lived on in Judaism . |
| 54 | For two days the children camped out in the hospital waiting-room as their father clung on to life . |
| 55 | However , as Doe 's Cabinet and military chiefs deserted him and fled abroad , Doe tenaciously clung on to power , besieged in the executive mansion with his Israeli-trained presidential guard . |
| 56 | All of these initiatives as well as the day to day work that goes on with safety representatives at the workplace , supported by officials all of these initiatives are aimed at improving standards at the workplace and we are also contributing to the fourth action programme in Europe where they are setting out their action programme which will take them into the next |
| 57 | A major work in the field remains A Dictionary of British Surnames by P.H. Reaney , in which the relevant entry reads , ‘ Fursey , Fussey , Fuzzey , Forsey ’ , and goes on to instance John Forshay 1431 ( Dorset ) and Roger Fursey 1583 ( Surrey ) . |
| 58 | Erm , the proposals there do , in fact , exceed the capital spend on new starts , and it will therefore need pruning erm , and the proposals that we suggested earlier was that , subject to any comments members may have on individual schemes that are here , and their views on them , we would propose looking at the programme in detail , and bringing it within the guideline figures that have been set , erm , and doing that with the advice of P A G before it goes on to Policy Panel and , and Policy and Resources Committee . |
| 59 | How was it The next section goes on to analysis section three I think . |
| 60 | And anyway , when you think of what goes on on telly now , if it was true we 'd all be raving . ’ |