Example sentences of "to rely on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We got up every morning and went to our routine , boring and badly-paid jobs , some of us hoping , some of us dreading the advent of Mr Right : he who would relieve us from , God forbid , the tedium of having to rely on each other for company , comfort , support and stimulation . |
| 2 | Most countries had objected that they would be forced to rely on each other 's trade statistics , that exporters would face more rather than less paperwork at national borders , and that the potential for fraud would increase . |
| 3 | It is inadequate and misleading to rely on general impressions in such churches . |
| 4 | The first was that a Labour government was going to rely on economic growth to finance its increases in public expenditure , the second was that it would ban fox-hunting . |
| 5 | The community has had to rely on occasional ferry trips in fine weather and flights on tiny Islander planes , operated by Loganair , for four years . |
| 6 | That problem of delay and a tax incentive for investors lead most firms to rely on private placements ( Schuldscheine ) or on bank finance . |
| 7 | This , he believes , has taught the group to be flexible — after 15 years of looking after multivendor systems , it does n't simply have to rely on managing subcontractors unlike many of its rivals . |
| 8 | In recent years it has become increasingly common for businesses buying and selling goods and services to seek to rely on standard terms of trading to govern their contracts . |
| 9 | It is therefore desirable to devise procedures which allow a business which wishes to rely on standard terms to rely on the signature rule . |
| 10 | Many developing nations , with limited resources available with which to adjust or adapt to changes in climate , will have to rely on international assistance even more than they do at present . |
| 11 | The breed 's prospects are gradually improving ( 1,500 adult animals , and rising ) and it is being recognised as what is called a farmer 's cow , able to produce well on cheap , home-grown rations without having to rely on expensive concentrates . |
| 12 | However , this type of work immediately meets the problem of data collection outlined at the beginning of this chapter , and for the foreseeable future most research will have to rely on official census data with all their limitations . |
| 13 | She had been less fortunate with the driver , who was not at all sure of the route to the Hook and had to rely on friendly passers-by to give directions . |
| 14 | In the past , hatcheries have had to rely on live feed , which is as unreliable and expensive to harvest from nature as it is to grow artificially . |
| 15 | Many of these sections are descriptive rather than prescriptive and contain sentences such as ‘ Most legislators are not lawyers , however , and need to rely on skilled advice ’ . |
| 16 | Trained in the French school of severe deductive logic , he preferred to rely on unassisted reason . |
| 17 | The region is an important tier in allocating resources for health care but regional authorities have to rely on coarse-grained information such as death rates to decide the level of funding that should go to particular districts and services . |
| 18 | ‘ We 're having to rely on dubious testimony . |
| 19 | Accordingly , it is both proper and rational to rely on such cases as Phillips v. Brooks Ltd. [ 1919 ] 2 K.B . |
| 20 | I had to rely on such copies . |
| 21 | They appear to rely on temporary work schemes that will be rewarded by a ’ proper rate for the job ’ . |
| 22 | If conventionalism were so single-mindedly practised in a particular jurisdiction and so often announced and confirmed by public institutions that people were thereby entitled to rely on that style of adjudication , of course it would be unfair for some judge suddenly to abandon it . |
| 23 | Having regard to the fact that Parliament has not abolished the privilege against self-incrimination Mr. Tully would be entitled to rely on that privilege if but only if and so far as compliance with the order of Buckley J. would provide evidence against him in a criminal trial . |
| 24 | For the moment , at least , I should prefer to rely on that process of negotiation rather than on anything else . |
| 25 | Until now , we have had to rely on casual contacts with groups , annual reports and occasional documents , in order to tell us what Age Concern groups are doing . |
| 26 | Proprietors need skilled , helpful staff and ca n't afford to rely on casual labour , but neither can they afford idle hands in slack periods . |
| 27 | Aspirants to possession will have to rely on criminal entry , since only three copies were run off . |
| 28 | But he must go on to explain the sorts of variations which have this effect on individuals ( or other subjects ) if he is to rely on counterfactual claims about the actions of subjects . |
| 29 | Poulantzas himself is content to rely on counterfactual arguments in support of certain relations , but I shall suggest that these are less conclusive than he supposes . |
| 30 | Most parents do not have a large lump sum to invest and have to rely on regular savings plans sometimes boosted by a modest capital investment . |