Example sentences of "[conj] rely [adv] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if in places it reads tendentiously or relies overmuch on rhetoric , it could hardly do otherwise than echo the tendentiousness and rhetoric of the terms of reference themselves . |
| 2 | There have also been poliomyelitis outbreaks despite high vaccine uptake , which suggests that strategies that rely exclusively on routine administration of OPV are inadequate to achieve global eradication of poliomyelitis by the year 2000 . |
| 3 | The corresponding percentage in countries that rely wholly on list systems is commonly much higher — regularly well over 20 , for example , in Norway , Sweden , Denmark and Finland . |
| 4 | Making that transition is n't so bad , unless I want to do something that relies heavily on feedback or ambience . |
| 5 | Just as an actor has to take on a role as an inner state , rather than relying solely on costume and a loud voice , so , in this case , guarding is achieved primarily through an inner attitude of alertness , watchfulness and a readiness to act swiftly . |
| 6 | But it thinks that to rely solely on market forces is a messy way of reining in a big borrower . |
| 7 | William Agnew , although he could not speak and relied entirely on sign language , was a forceful personality and moved about amongst the rich merchants of Glasgow . |
| 8 | Throughout his life , Agnew could not speak and relied entirely on sign language and fingerspelling , but was a highly articulate man — he penned a great number of articles in Scottish and national newspapers giving his views on the introduction of oralism into British schools . |
| 9 | Most of these villages have little access to land , are not self-sufficient and rely heavily on food aid and food-for-work programmes . |
| 10 | Voters depend much less on the cues and guidance given them by party workers and rely instead on television . |
| 11 | While the former adhere more closely to a direct representation of the objects at hand , the latter tend more towards abstraction and rely more on memory than imagination . |
| 12 | Officials see the main thrust as : more freedom in basic research to allow decision making by scientists rather than government more encouragement for private enterprise to invest in research a push to persuade state research bodies to do more contract work for industry and rely less on government funds . |
| 13 | For this and other reasons , more recent approaches , even those favourably disposed to the idea of criminal inheritance , have tended to reject the twin method as unsound and to rely instead on adoption studies ( Ellis , 1982 ) . |
| 14 | In the mid-1960s , when these arguments were much canvassed , there was some pressure to abolish the whole system of juvenile courts and to rely instead on family councils and family courts . |
| 15 | The source text uses no conjunctions but relies instead on punctuation devices . |