Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] on to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British tabloids , always to be relied on to turn a mild comment into a raging scandal , did just that , hilariously suggesting that The Smiths , as always , led by manic vegetarian Morrissey , were inciting the nation 's kids to go shoplifting . |
| 2 | Assuming that this statement is correct , these testers could prove lethal , and should certainly only be used by competent people with a considerable degree of electrical knowledge ; and they definitely should n't be relied on to check if a circuit is dead . |
| 3 | Could it be relied on to work well in the United Kingdom ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) … |
| 8 | It has come as a shock to realise that your magazine can no longer be relied on to present the relevant information in a straightforward factual manner . |
| 9 | There was no major saint-cult which could be relied on to bolster episcopal power . |
| 10 | The object of the executors ' year is to protect the personal representatives from demands for immediate payment but it is not to be relied on to cover undue delay in dealing with the estate . |
| 11 | Moreover , we may point out that even if corresponding attributive and predicative adjectives ( occurring with the same noun ) could be relied on to share the same referential locus , that would be no justification for leaping to an assertion that the two elements are actually " the same " tout court , and even less for claiming that the structural positions they occupy are alternative forms of each other . |
| 12 | This could be relied on to throw up ‘ bad ’ as well as ‘ good ’ factors . |
| 13 | They could n't be relied on to cope with the situation and our safety at the same time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If previous experience is any guide , politicians can not be relied on to lead that debate . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It could now be argued that the unity of wartime should be carried on to deal with peacemaking , demobilization and economic reconstruction . |
| 21 | Anything that you design in the ORIGINAL shaping section can of course be saved on to disk for future use . |
| 22 | Anything that you design within the programme can be saved on to disk for future use . |
| 23 | The criteria will be drawn on to support realistic models of styles of policing/public interaction in training . |
| 24 | According to Anil Gadre , Sun Microsystems Computer Corp 's vice president of systems product marketing , the new licensing strategy — see front page — should , for example , enable the Sparc compatible community to get its hands on the company 's next-generation Viking , or SuperSparc technology — being co-developed with Texas Instruments Inc — much more quickly than the best part of a year that elapsed between the launch of the Sparcstation 2 ( UX No 308 ) , and the day Sun gave the green light for the LSI Logic Inc made 40MHz Sparc chip sets to be sold on to Sun wannabe 's ( UX No 356 ) . |
| 25 | The language of the sources could be simplified for those who had difficulty reading the sources or they could be copied on to tape for listening . |
| 26 | He also called for those hit hardest by VAT rises to be compensated , urged that the wealthy be called on to pay more and warned Chancellor Norman Lamont against aiming at a general tax level of 20p , saying it was ‘ not manageable ’ . |
| 27 | He also called for those hit hardest by VAT rises to be compensated , urged the wealthy be called on to pay more and warned Chancellor Norman Lamont against aiming at a general tax level of 20p , saying it was ‘ not manageable ’ . |
| 28 | THE Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , will be called on to back demands for Scotland 's MEPs to be elected next year by proportional representation . |
| 29 | He is likely to fill the No 6 slot vacated by Ian Botham 's Test call , and could also be called on to bowl his leg spin . |
| 30 | This was because of past history when it was expected of the womenfolk , and the close family structure where others could be called on to assist if necessary . |