Example sentences of "had recourse to " in BNC.

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1 All three countries have at one time or another during the 1980s had recourse to the IMF for standby loans .
2 He rarely had recourse to it .
3 In consequence , Rome had recourse to diplomacy and negotiation .
4 It seems , moreover , that from the 1830s and 1840s there was a distinct switch in literary representation of the type of women who had recourse to abortion : no longer was it just the seduced domestic , but the married and unmarried working women , particularly factory women in the textile areas of Lancashire .
5 Although , apart from lapis lazuli , supplies of all these were available in Egypt and Sinai , Egyptian craftsmen often had recourse to coloured glass to infill cloisonné cells .
6 I demolished it without difficulty , though it was extremely hot and I had recourse to the water when no one was looking .
7 Interestingly , these second visits were never successful , and interviewers then had recourse to the back-up lists .
8 We can hardly resist the conclusion that the parish officers only had recourse to the policy of subsidizing wages wherever the attraction of urban industry made itself felt too weakly , leaving a pool of surplus manpower and substandard wages .
9 Others had recourse to the ius gentium tradition associated with Hugo Grotius .
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