Example sentences of "[vb pp] to rely on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , many animals have also come to rely on light , particularly those with keen vision . |
| 2 | Here the Committee has preferred to rely on speculation about hypothetical problems rather than on the unchallenged evidence that employed solicitors have conducted cases for years in the lower courts without complaint . |
| 3 | Others have had to rely on government funding to keep going , although funding from the Department of the Environment through the Urban Programme has been restricted and only seven centres have been funded on a continuing basis by the Lord Chancellor 's Department , and ( fir the time being ) the Legal Aid Board . |
| 4 | In studies of conflicts between line and staff employees , line managers are found to rely on reward and authority power bases ; staff rely on expertise and coercive power bases . |
| 5 | At a press conference yesterday , Mr John Dawson , head of the B.M.A . 's professional and scientific division , said that if no action was taken , the elderly could be forced to rely on charity and ‘ could even be forced to beg . ’ |