Example sentences of "[verb] have recourse to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , it is precisely at the point when the plaintiff can not succeed in a claim in negligence that he needs to have recourse to the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Nor had he wanted to have recourse to the services of an Astropath belonging to a pious and loyal fraternal organization . |
| 5 | It was the first time that Venezuela had had recourse to the IMF . |
| 6 | And given the prevailing prejudice against people actually speaking to each other , suitors and their intended sposi had to have recourse to the ambiguous and easily misunderstood language of fans and flowers . |
| 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 | Being required to have recourse to one remedy rather than another would not fall foul of the principle unless the the latter gave significantly less effective protection to the aggrieved party than the former . |
| 11 | We have to have recourse to what Stenning calls ‘ abnormal ’ contexts , where the analyst reads the text and then has to try to provide the characteristics of the context in which the text might have occurred . |