Example sentences of "relies on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The context of this calm acquiescence is a rise in what I will call semi-literacy , which relies on the visual image and hardly at all on the printed word except as a medium of advertising , and genuinely can not see what the problem is . |
| 2 | Future growth relies on the industrial world . |
| 3 | The scheme , backed by the government , the European Community , engineering and water companies and landowners ' associations , relies on the ancient art of coppicing to provide a reliable fuel source . |
| 4 | The explanation relies on the broad sweep , but not the details , of a theory about the conditions under which subjunctive conditionals such as 3 and 4 are true . |
| 5 | His plan relies on the simple expedient of envy : the ‘ blockish ’ Ajax will meet the challenge laid down by Hector , and this will ‘ physic the great Myrmidon Who broils in loud applause ’ . |
| 6 | The gonococcus is a fastidious organism and demands not only the normal foodstuffs found in bacterial growth media ( normally blood products , meat extract , or ‘ chocolate ’ , which is boiled blood ) but it relies on the correct temperature , humidity , and carbon dioxide content in the surrounding atmosphere . |
| 7 | So can you give me a use of cast iron which ha one of the effects of it is that it relies on the occasional lubricating properties of the graphite in the iron ? |
| 8 | The filter , as you may recall , is an external upflow model with three gate valves , no less ( two to facilitate back-washing ) , and relies on the sintered glass medium , Siporax , for its astonishing claims to biological efficiency . |
| 9 | Following Gramsci , Poulantzas argued that the dominant class relies on the complex use of coercion and consent . |
| 10 | Erm it 's g there now obviously the end of year it builds up over the end of the year partly because it relies on the extra recruitment and the increasing sales per er per capita erm or per capita sales I should say . |
| 11 | In its effort to avoid all church mediation of the revealed word of God , the fundamentalist version relies on the literal interpretation of the Bible , but one which imposes a contemporary Western culture on to the different perceptions of a past culture . |
| 12 | It relies on the preferential absorption on to clay minerals of an ultra-violet sensitive dye . |
| 13 | The intensity enhancement relies on the electronic transition being allowed by symmetry , so the vibrations whose intensities are enhanced are almost always totally symmetric ( Section 5.7 ) . |
| 14 | And it is doubtless the strategic codification of these points of resistance that makes a revolution possible , somewhat similar to the way in which the state relies on the institutional integration of power relationships . |
| 15 | However , such users are a substantial market for dictionary publishers , therefore the information in dictionaries relies on the linguistic skills and background knowledge of the human user , rather than being designed for machine consumption . |
| 16 | It relies on the physical age rather than the mental age . ’ |
| 17 | Nozick anyway could not hold that it does , because his position relies on the independent proof it provides that you do n't know you are not a brain in a vat . |
| 18 | This method relies on the exact solution of the elastic problem for an inclusion of known geometry ( an ellipsoid ) surrounded by an infinite matrix . |
| 19 | Much contemporary music , in its dance-style , ballad , folk and gentle rock forms , relies on the strumming rhythm of the guitar . |
| 20 | The legislation relies on the common sense and compassion of responsible people , along with the power to enforce it and prosecute offenders . |
| 21 | This is because the prediction algorithm relies on the previous word positions being identified correctly , and this is often not the case . |
| 22 | This aptitude for well bred understatement , which relies on the vanishing concepts of faultless grooming , impeccable fit , and sartorial craftsmanship , found its match in the work of Mainbocher . |
| 23 | This argument of course relies on the questionable assumption that eye movements adequately describe the distribution of attention to a stimulus . |
| 24 | The success of a sports team or personality often relies on the hard work of those unseen figures behind the scenes — the manager and the coach . |
| 25 | Clarke , rested for Saturday 's low-key 2–0 win over Grimsby which keeps alive faint hopes of a place in the play-offs , will lead the forward line alone once more , as Mr Smith relies on the same game plan of tight marking in defence and overcrowding the midfield . |
| 26 | Although Cheetham walked away with packets of dosh and has taken over Weidenfeld , his new list of authors relies on the same tired ( and expensive ) formula of ‘ star ’ novelists , which ultimately bores the reader and spoils the cash flow . |
| 27 | When the right of control and transfer is conveyed , the holder relies on the same method of notification by which he was made a holder , except that he will be the initiator of the message to the carrier , and will need to await the carrier 's confirmation before the transfer process can be set in motion . |
| 28 | This skill relies on the human ability to consider information and constraints from a variety of knowledge sources to arrive at a ’ solution ’ to the ’ problem ’ of making a plausible interpretation of some arbitrary handwriting marks on a page . |
| 29 | It helps that Preston relies on the musical conviction of his playing and his impeccable technique to get his message across ; thankfully we are spared any of the acts of registrative trickery , especially in the C major Toccata , which lesser organists so often impose on the music in a feeble attempt to inject artificial stimulants into their performances . |
| 30 | However , it does emphasize the extent to which the public relies on the mass media for information about the outside world even though , in the final analysis , their understanding of those events may differ , particularly along political lines . |