Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] rely on the " in BNC.

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1 That Parliament relied on the Ministerial statements is shown by the fact that the matter was never raised again after the discussions in Committee , that amendments were consequentially withdrawn and that no relevant amendment was made which could affect the correctness of the minister 's statement .
2 But the geographical differences pale when they are compared to the deep threefold divisions which rend the city itself : of language ( four-fifths of the population speak French , only one fifth English and the smaller languages ) ; of culture ( the French-speaking part naturally looks to France and French literature for its mores , while the English-speaking part relies on the attachment to the Commonwealth and its close neighbour , the United States of America ) ; and of religion ( for the gulfs here are wider than the Atlantic as the former protestant cross-sectioning of Episcopalianism/Presbyterianism meets the Roman Catholicism of the French , and both meet the surging secularism and agnosticism of our day ) .
3 Bars 1–2 of this part rely on the intervals of thirds , sixths and flat fifths — or in other words the interval structure of the B7 and Bb7 dominant chord structures that are used .
4 In essence this technique relies on the fact that in a dilute suspension , particles settle through a column of water at velocities which are dependent upon their size .
5 The derivation of a no-arbitrage condition relies on the use of the capital market to move the cash flows arising from the arbitrage transaction through time so that they are non-zero in all time periods , and positive at least once .
6 This skill relies on the human ability to consider information and constraints from a variety of knowledge sources to arrive at a ’ solution ’ to the ’ problem ’ of making a plausible interpretation of some arbitrary handwriting marks on a page .
7 If this is true , it would further increase the problems of control in countries such as Britain where the form of the public corporation relied on the notion of the ‘ professional ideal ’ of self-regulation , trust and responsibility to ensure that the ‘ national interest ’ was furthered ( Burrage 1973 ) .
8 This method relies on the exact solution of the elastic problem for an inclusion of known geometry ( an ellipsoid ) surrounded by an infinite matrix .
9 It needs to have the necessary quality of confidence about it. ) 4 Whether the relevant information can be easily isolated from other information which the employee is free to use or disclose This to some extent relies on the intelligence and honesty of the employee .
10 ‘ Where a defendant in a civil action relies on the doctrine against self-incrimination and insists on remaining silent and on concealing documents and other evidence relevant to the action , he is relying on his own wrongdoing or on his own apparent or possible wrongdoing to hamper the plaintiff in proof of his just claims in the suit .
11 Future growth relies on the industrial world .
12 The kinetic approach relies on the establishment of a relation between the density of the crystalline and melt phases and the time .
13 It should always be possible for the salaried partner to rely on the nature of his subordinate position to claim to be entitled ( at any rate by necessary implication ) to an indemnity from the full partners in respect of any additional liabilities to which his being held out has exposed him : but as a matter of good practice , every would-be salaried partner should insist on written terms which clarify his standing in the firm and effectually indemnify him against extraordinary expenses and liabilities .
14 With the emphasis switching to control over production , to quality , and to quite massive and well-orchestrated publicity campaigns there was less need to rely on the shock value of a new kind of film .
15 In its effort to avoid all church mediation of the revealed word of God , the fundamentalist version relies on the literal interpretation of the Bible , but one which imposes a contemporary Western culture on to the different perceptions of a past culture .
16 On the other hand , the first type relies on the information provided by the second which polishes , refines and leads to a redefinition of the problem .
17 The general form relied on the argument that the riots were not a form of protest against the insufferable social conditions of inner-city areas or the actions of the police , but a ‘ criminal act ’ or a ‘ cry for loot ’ .
18 ( 5 ) To what extent has one party relied on the other 's advice .
19 Sustained response relies on the use of specific antihypercalcaemic agents , so the length of normocalcaemia should be measured to evaluate response to these agents .
20 The second method for generating speech relies on the fact that the human ear and brain are very good at filling in gaps .
21 Barthes 's approach to S/Z has the merit of respecting the individual play of a given text while at the same time relying on the general concept of the scriptible and the lisible to do so .
22 Following Gramsci , Poulantzas argued that the dominant class relies on the complex use of coercion and consent .
23 The Supreme Court relies on the language of equal protection to strike down state legislation that recognizes fundamental rights for some and not others .
24 The basic way a computer performs a geometric transformation relies on the Cartesian coordinate system , an invention of the French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes in the 17th century .
25 This merely enables the local authority to rely on the private law concepts relating to the passing of the burden of covenants attached to land , i.e. the burden of a covenant can not pass to successors in title at common law , Austerberry v Oldham Corporation , and only restrictive covenants , as opposed to positive covenants may pass under the equitable rules , first proposed in Tulk v Moxhay .
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