Example sentences of "have recourse to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this speech , Simon has recourse to the theories of the Russian Formalist school of criticism to support many of the arguments he puts forward on behalf of the inherently political viability of a formalist aesthetic . |
| 2 | If damage is inevitable , NCC can negotiate a voluntary agreement to retain traditional land management with calculated compensation payments to the applicant ( if necessary via arbitration ) but if such arrangements are impossible , NCC has recourse to Section 29 Orders ( sanctioned only by the Minister ) which can lead eventually to compulsory land purchase . |
| 3 | This explains why English has recourse to a preposition , a word whose function is to establish a relation between two words when no mechanism of incidence is provided for by the words themselves , in order to make the infinitive incident to a support situated outside its event time . |
| 4 | After Margery has swallowed Dame Sirith 's trick she has recourse to the same commercial means of gaining what she thinks she needs and what she therefore now wants — indeed yearns for with an eagerness that the clerk himself could hardly have hoped for ! |
| 5 | It is therefore not surprising that Chiaro occasionally has recourse to quoting from advertising campaigns ( e.g. the Perrier eau advertisements , p. 39 ) . |
| 6 | Working-class women had always had recourse to abortion ; but in the case of the last century it was particularly likely , first , where married women workers worked outside the home and hence paid a key role in determining their families economic stability ; and second , where the dependence of the family on the women 's wage led to a reappraisal of family strategy . |
| 7 | In Robbe-Grillet 's Pour un nouveau roman ( 1963 ) and Nathalie Sarraute 's L'ère du soupçon ( 1965 ) , Michel Butor 's essays and Claude Simon 's conference papers , articles and interviews , all of these writers have had recourse to a modernist canon as part of an impetus of literary self-justification . |
| 8 | I have to confess that on many occasions I have had recourse to Hansard , of course only to check if my interpretation had conflicted with an express Parliamentary intention , but I can say that it does not take long to recall and assemble the relevant passages in which the particular section was dealt with in Parliament , nor does it take long to see if anything relevant was said . |
| 9 | As with other authors who have had recourse to the analytic versus holistic distinction ( Bever and Chiarello , 1974 ; Bever , Hurtig and Handel , 1976 ; Ross and Turkewitz , 1976 ; Gates and Bradshaw , 1977a ) this is a post-hoc explanation , not an experimental test of the notion that different cognitive strategies are characteristic of left and right hemispheres . |
| 10 | It was the first time that Venezuela had had recourse to the IMF . |
| 11 | How many times has one ever had recourse to a term like anadiplosis ? |
| 12 | The Panel would also have recourse to the courts . |
| 13 | ‘ He further informed the prince that , should he find evidence of a continuing liaison between himself and yourself , he would consider it his duty to at once have recourse to the king his father . ’ |
| 14 | Residents of the City of Westminster , while falling into the catchment areas of three different health districts , did not have recourse to admissions to any long-stay hospitals after the closure of Banstead in 1986 . |
| 15 | The cost of the court proceeding and any compensation will be borne by the requesting state , which , depending on national legislation , may have recourse to the person responsible for the illegal export . |
| 16 | Positive feedback systems such as the one outlined , can serve as very useful explanatory devices in social science , and we shall have recourse to another such system later . |
| 17 | This approach is convenient , and we shall often have recourse to it ; however , it has disadvantages ( even supposing that a fully adequate account can be given of such notions as ‘ the class of dogs ’ ) . |
| 18 | Caterers , hoteliers , innkeepers and restaurateurs may have recourse to any one of a number of courts for a multiplicity of reasons ; the following are those which they are most likely to use . |
| 19 | Should those measures be insufficient , the member state might have recourse to other criteria which prove appropriate , because , in that respect , the aims of the Common Fisheries Policy could take precedence over the rules on free movement laid down in the E.E.C . |
| 20 | In summary , I agree that the courts should have recourse to Hansard in the circumstances and to the extent he proposes . |
| 21 | Because one can not have recourse to one simple authoritative document to discover the provisions of the Constitution , one has instead to research four separate sources : statute law , common law , conventions , and works of authority . |
| 22 | In seeking to interpret the Constitution , the courts may have recourse to works by constitutional experts . |
| 23 | Given the disparate sources of the Constitution and the fact that important relationships within and between organs of the state are not laid down in any one formal or binding document , it is not surprising that one must have recourse to books by constitutional scholars to discover the extent and nature of those relationships . |
| 24 | ‘ I can think of no good reason why I should shy from going openly and without having recourse to others . ’ |
| 25 | He wondered why he had considered having recourse to a public library when he had a much simpler means to hand of identifying the house in the newspaper paragraph . |
| 26 | They agreed to limit the whole to 23 acres , 13 of which were on his Lordship 's land , and offered 40 years ' purchase of the actual rent — an offer which ‘ we flatter ourselves will preclude the unpleasant necessity of having recourse to the decision of a jury ’ . |
| 27 | Blinkered and self-serving as this picture may appear ( it entirely ignores the gains which the USSR has achieved through war ) , it will be clear on reflection that what is meant by ‘ peace ’ is conflict without war : or , to invert these terms , ‘ a form of warfare which permits the settlement of unavoidable clashes between Socialism and Capitalism without having recourse to general armed conflict , ( author 's italics ) . |
| 28 | While it was true that the experience of dependants ' benefits demonstrated to the Ministry of Labour that ‘ not in a few cases they enabled respectable and industrious men and women to avoid having recourse to the Poor Law ’ ( Ministry of Labour , 1924 , p. 10 ) , the restoration and continuation of dependants ' allowances and the establishment of uniform minimum scales of Poor Law outdoor relief in January 1922 owed much to the activities of the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement , which organised protests na-tionally as well as against local Boards of Guardians . |
| 29 | ‘ She was in such despair , poor girl , ’ explained Rose , having recourse to her handkerchief again . |
| 30 | For a short time we got on without much difficulty , but we were soon obliged to have recourse to our hands and knees , and clamber thus from one crag to another . |