Example sentences of "to resort to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One does not have to resort to occultism to find dark forces . |
| 2 | In A Treatise on the Art of Midwifery ( 1760 ) , she argued that male practitioners lacked patience and sensitivity , and were too quick to resort to metal instruments , causing needless infant deaths . |
| 3 | There should be free access to all courts within the jurisdiction and to legal services to make such access effective , including access to assistance which avoids the need to resort to litigation . |
| 4 | In the absence of authority to impose their ideas successful project managers are obliged to resort to persuasiveness , personal influence and the ‘ old boy ’ network . |
| 5 | In the absence of a minimum wage , many of our constituents earn such low wages that they have to resort to state benefits on top . |
| 6 | ‘ When I want a woman , Fran , I do n't need to resort to auto-suggestion . |
| 7 | The Scots rebelled and Charles I had to raise more money for an army to quell the uprising and for funds he had to resort to Parliament who demanded the removal of both Archbishop Laud and the Earl of Stafford . |
| 8 | The problem is , they do n't want to resort to hair that looks dyed . |
| 9 | In order discover more about bifurcations in the system , it is necessary to resort to computer simulation of the equations . |
| 10 | Unfortunately this did not resolve the problem and in January 1991 , when W. was coming up towards her fifteenth birthday , it was necessary to resort to in-patient treatment . |
| 11 | In extreme situations , it may be necessary to resort to arbitration . |
| 12 | Quatar announced in February 1988 that both sides had agreed to resort to arbitration by the ICJ . |
| 13 | These findings are also in line with figures produced by the Justices ' Clerks ' Society ( 1992 ) which we cited earlier , suggesting that for a given range of offence types , Crown Courts are very much more likely to resort to custody than magistrates courts , and to do so for longer . |
| 14 | Similarly , for ‘ Astrilly ’ , a song about the plight of the suffering pit men , which led many to resort to emigration ( often to Australia : ‘ Astrilly ’ ) , Corvan makes use of the traditional tune , ‘ All Around My Hat ’ , with its history of texts to do with farewell and absence , here transposed from the sphere of love to that of work . |
| 15 | Whitley ( 1990 : 63 ) has suggested that enterprise structures which are premised on producing a relatively concentrated range of related products will tend , of necessity , to resort to market relations in order to complement this narrow base , an option which more imperatively co-ordinated organizations will not require . |
| 16 | What is instructive in terms of the psychology of science is the willingness with which Kammerer 's detractors were prepared to resort to fraud as an explanation for facts that had been misinterpreted as support for a counter-theory , facts which , at that point , their own theory was insufficiently well developed to account for . |
| 17 | Their revolutionary strategies and organizations reflected not their leadership of popular protest but a near-total isolation which led them to resort to conspiracy and manipulation . |
| 18 | The only ‘ sanction ’ against them is to resort to world public opinion' ( Cassese , 1979 , p. 165 ) . |
| 19 | He was obviously worried about the future of a state which had to resort to terror in order to maintain its supremacy . |
| 20 | Similarly we may see the nutter as a pathetic figure who has to resort to self-humiliation in order to establish an identity for himself . |
| 21 | The ‘ skill mix ’ of the workforce may have a bearing on the conduct of the strike , since skilled workers tend to have a more harmonious relationship with the employer , and their relatively favoured position in the labour market usually enables them to achieve their demands without having to resort to violence . |
| 22 | Lord Parker 's response to that suggestion was that no offence had been committed in any event because , even if it could be said that such conduct was insulting ( which he doubted ) most men approached in such a way are not likely to resort to violence . |
| 23 | The Peeping Tom was not himself likely in the circumstances to resort to violence , and the constable was certainly not . |
| 24 | The victims being weak , vulnerable , or simply law abiding are not likely as a result to resort to violence , however great the provocation by threats , abuse or insults . |
| 25 | The PCCh and the MIR on Jan. 27 , 1990 , undertook not to resort to violence during the term of office of the Aylwin administration . |
| 26 | The UAE , one of the states indicted by Iraq in 1990 , had previously come in for criticism without any members finding it necessary to resort to violence to obtain redress . |
| 27 | HOW sad that the Church of England has to resort to advertising as a way of encouraging people to attend services . |
| 28 | ‘ A good example of the sort of player who should be a great beneficiary of this scheme is James Lenton — a tremendously hard worker who has struggled financially and once even had to quit to resort to coaching , ’ Lewis added . |
| 29 | In as far as they were less likely to be increasingly forced to resort to bribery to obtain scant food supplies at a time when the official ration was totally inadequate , farmers were better off than their urban counterparts . |
| 30 | ‘ I think it has something to do with the word counselling ; people seem afraid of it — maybe it conjures up the wrong image — that they feel they 've failed in some way if they have to resort to counselling . |