Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] rely on " in BNC.
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| 1 | This chapter has argued that just as the study of style can not entirely rely on quantitative data , neither can it ultimately do without them . |
| 2 | I accept the offer of the hon. Member for Aberdeen , North ( Mr. Hughes ) as given in good faith , but there are 646 hon. Members — I exclude you , Madam Deputy Speaker , and your colleagues for this purpose — and we can not necessarily rely on them all to show such restraint and singlemindedness as the hon. Gentleman . |
| 3 | Since railways were built anywhere , they could not necessarily rely on a local labour-force , but developed a corps of nomadic labourers ( known in Britain as the ‘ navvies ’ ) , such as still characterises the great construction projects all over the world . |
| 4 | However , current research shows that early humans did not generally rely on a meat diet , but that plant foods were at least as important : far from being mighty hunters , early humans are more likely to have been opportunist scavengers . |
| 5 | The broad effect of this is that a defect will normally be cured as against the administrator and liquidator ( since unsecured creditors will not normally rely on the register of charges ) but not against persons who acquire an interest ( who will normally rely on the register of charges ) . |
| 6 | The Liberal Democrat spokesman , Mr Charles Kennedy , quoted a letter from the Department of Health which admitted patients were in a weak position to make meaningful comparisons or to shop around , so the NHS could not always rely on competition to make sure that its internal and external markets worked effectively . |
| 7 | We can not always rely on the fish already being there and feeling hungry too . |
| 8 | While one can not always rely on Taskopruzade for precision in regard to dates , nor for that matter even in regard to the reigns in which various events occurred , as has been seen , it is hard to accept that he is in error by some twenty or twenty-five years , especially in a period close enough to his own to allow him access to people who had lived in that period . |
| 9 | But this is not to say that the great were the only people who mattered politically ; and they could not always rely on their followers . |
| 10 | In practice , an employer will not always rely on the implied duty of fidelity : there will often be an express clause in the employment contract which directs the employee to devote his time exclusively to the promotion of the employer 's business . |
| 11 | But spelling can not solely rely on this route : to be able to spell words like yacht or choir we must have access to specific lexical information about how each word is spelled . |
| 12 | Obviously we can not simply rely on the raw figures if we wish to consider whether local authority expenditure had grown since the £9,230 million spent in 1974 — the year of reorganisation . |
| 13 | The best are those that do not simply rely on a historical setting , but encourage historical skills , evaluation and understanding . |
| 14 | This case shows neither that employers should refuse jobs to those who have a murky past nor that they should not entrust secrets to subordinate employees — that is impracticable — but that they should not simply rely on the implied duty of confidence ; it can lead to misunderstandings and difficulties as to what is really secret . |
| 15 | Following the great betrayal of 1882 , when Gladstone presided over the annexation of Egypt , they could not even rely on the Liberal party to resist the imperialist tide . |
| 16 | However , Sophian and Huber ( 1984 ) found that when the causal task involved a larger number of conflicting cues , three-year-olds did not consistently rely on temporal priority cues , whereas five-year-olds did . |
| 17 | The corporation values long-term profits and does not heavily rely on discounted cash flow analysis . |
| 18 | The vicomtes of Béarn could not therefore rely on the loyalty of those of their vassals who also held lands , offices and pensions from the king-dukes when an Anglo-French war erupted in Aquitaine . |
| 19 | So what we have , if I can paint it like this , is a development programme which does n't just rely on Oxfordshire Social Services putting cash into it , because there are , if we manage this process properly , other people who we can encourage to bring money into Oxfordshire , but the key thing that 'll only do it is if they 're confident that they 're dealing with a competent organization and somebody that they trust and they have some form of credibility . |
| 20 | One area in which the CEGB could n't always rely on support was the media . |
| 21 | Do n't always rely on the bridges marked triumphantly on your map . |
| 22 | You ca n't always rely on a partner to do that for you . |
| 23 | Do n't ever rely on anybody coming to your aid ; you may be lucky but do n't count on it . |
| 24 | Now you ca n't even rely on seeing a live performance at a live concert ! |