Example sentences of "resort to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such countries may resort to counter-trade . |
| 2 | Embittered Muslims , radicalised by defeat , may resort to terrorism , thus turning Serbo-Croat propaganda about fighting Islamic fundamentalism into a self-fulfilling prophecy . |
| 3 | He thinks some states and cities will resort to pump-priming their economies with spending on things like roads , airports and waste-management . |
| 4 | The National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) has announced that it may resort to abstraction bans to prevent 40 rivers in England and Wales from drying up because of what it called " gross over-abstractions " by water companies for the public water supply . |
| 5 | ‘ We will resort to court action . |
| 6 | If taxation finance is not available to cover public expenditure , governments must resort to debt finance or increases in the money supply to finance their activities . |
| 7 | But at some point one has to stop and resort to speech . ’ |
| 8 | They will resort to secession only when national oppression and national friction make joint life absolutely intolerable . |
| 9 | We must resort to Phase I of the two-phase method : add an artificial variable and minimise the infeasibility which , initially , is . |
| 10 | Latin American governments have responded in different ways , some taking a generally sympathetic approach through assisting self-help schemes , as in the Peruvian case , but even these may resort to repression . |
| 11 | We can at will like Democritus develop this faculty of laughter , so that when we look at our fellowmen we can smile and even in the labyrinth of our own thoughts we can resort to humour and thus our lives can be less drab . |
| 12 | Neither will sit side by side with Sinn Fein because they do not concede the right of anyone to bomb their way to the conference table and they fear that , if the talks hit problems , Sinn Fein would once again resort to violence to get its way . |
| 13 | It was known that Implexion had been responsible for the dissolution of many sects in Gleberune , and that he would resort to violence if his injunctions were not obeyed . |
| 14 | Finally , the King could resort to borrowing . |
| 15 | Throughout Latin America , except for Cuba , abortion is illegal but , nevertheless , a considerable number of women do resort to abortion , which is often carried out in unhygienic and inadequate conditions . |
| 16 | Do n't resort to alcohol to relieve your stress . |
| 17 | He complains , too , that the church party resorted to excommunication to achieve its temporal goals . |
| 18 | Biogeographers investigating landscape change on the most recent time scale have also resorted to documentary and field evidence because palynology may not be sufficiently reliable at this scale for the studies which have been completed including those of the outer Leeward Islands ( Harris , 1965 ) , the southwest of the United States and the vegetation of Barbados 1627–1800 ( Watts , 1966 ) . |
| 19 | He refused , but Garivald , who was not unreasonably put out , resorted to simony , and became bishop for forty days . |
| 20 | The streetwise client resorted to trickery , just like his dealer . |
| 21 | Others have resorted to cynicism . |
| 22 | I have girlfriends who have resorted to prostitution to make money . |
| 23 | To give a ‘ true ’ impression of the exotic splendour of these far off places , many photographers resorted to hand colouring their work . |
| 24 | To give a ‘ true ’ impression of the exotic splendour of these far off places , many photographers resorted to hand colouring their work . |
| 25 | Her father Jeffery attended the inquest in Swindon to hear how his daughter had not eaten … and resorted to self-induced vomiting when she did . |
| 26 | Typically , he will have just encountered a major and overwhelming life event , such as loss of a spouse through death or separation , be in a state of ‘ shock ’ and have resorted to self-poisoning or self-injury as an acute reaction to the event . |
| 27 | Ordinary people regularly broke the rules and resorted to bribery if they could get away with it to obtain essentials or medical care , but then their corruption was a sign of independence asserted against the system , whereas Manescu 's was typical of a deep inner decay of the system . |
| 28 | At times we hear of men with charge over more than one civitas ; thus Nicetius , who had actually been removed from comital office in the Auvergne , resorted to bribery and became dux of the Auvergne , the Rutenois and Uzès . |
| 29 | Kerouac himself , meanwhile , had resorted to alcohol to seek oblivion in his pursuit of Buddhism , nonviolence and love for all creatures . |
| 30 | GPs , therefore , more frequently resorted to section referrals for women with neurotic and social problems than is evident in other referrals . |