Example sentences of "[conj] they rely [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many corals the ripe eggs remain attached to the mesenteries inside the stomach cavity where they rely upon water currents to carry the sperm from other polyps for fertilization . |
| 2 | They are content to leave it to the building society , or they rely on their own judgement . |
| 3 | Although they rely upon sophisticated , on-board computer technology , they are emphatically designed to be ‘ non-computers ’ as far as potential customers are concerned . |
| 4 | But Lord Reid , with whom Lord Guest agreed , was certainly critical of those decisions and pointed out , as their Lordships have also done , that they relied on authorities which did not support their conclusion . |
| 5 | She knew that they relied on a book called a Grimoire for their contact with Evil . |
| 6 | When Butland measures the ‘ skills and talents ’ of general practice he does not appreciate that they rely on stability and knowledge of the patient . |
| 7 | Whatever the activity , I still see this as the old style … it 's teacher-led from that point of view in that they rely on me to start them off and I mean it 's almost as if I stand there with a gun and say ‘ Go ! ’ |
| 8 | A problem sometimes associated with salespeople who have worked for the same company for many years is that they rely on established customers to provide repeat orders rather than actively seeking new business . |
| 9 | They constantly used interventionist language , but this often involved little more than a legislative declaration in favour of good , and they relied to an extraordinary degree on individual and voluntary effort . |
| 10 | Zuwaya had no access to practical or ideological groupings , and they relied in politics on those which followed from their day-to-day sociability and loyalty . |
| 11 | put it together on a training session on this and they rely on you and perhaps talk through to the session and say look that when I say this sort of thing , will you be the person that demonstrates or gives me answer you know , this sort of thing . |
| 12 | People get to love you and they rely on you so when they need you , you ca n't turn your back on them . |
| 13 | Organ transplants are quite different and , as a matter of law , doctors would have to secure the consent of someone with the right to consent on behalf of a donor under the age of 18 or , if they relied upon the consent of the minor himself or herself , be satisfied that the minor was ‘ Gillick competent ’ in the context of so serious a procedure which could not benefit the minor . |
| 14 | The degree of reflation ‘ required ’ will therefore tend to be overestimated by governments in a synchronized upswing , if they rely on past experience derived from periods of less international synchronization of business cycles . |
| 15 | The Minoans seem to have been self-sufficient in terms of basic needs , which must have put them in a position of trading strength , but they relied on imports for supplies of exotic raw materials for the manufacture of luxury goods . |
| 16 | Loreto did try and come back into the game , but they relied on the breakaway too much with Barnwell and O'Neill always on their own , and lacking the support necessary to cause problems for Portadown . |
| 17 | This is because they relied on features common to the whole of the lower class ( restricted legitimate opportunities ) ; these were very common , crime relatively rare . |
| 18 | Sometimes they go to the opposite extreme and seem to have a very lax superego because they relied on their parents to punish them , and subsequently have no internalization . |
| 19 | But such judgements are questionable because they rely on composite time series of export prices which do not expose variations in the pattern and timing of price changes of individual goods . |
| 20 | There is a lot of work involved in looking after domesticated horses because they rely on human beings for all their food and water . |
| 21 | These bacteria are termed aerobic , meaning they require oxygen to function and trickle filters are ideal because they rely upon the surrounding atmosphere for this oxygen — not the water in the aquarium as is the case with submerged filtration systems . |
| 22 | These figures , emanating from the Council of Mortgage Lenders , are challenged by Janet Ford who claims that they underestimate the number of people in arrears because they rely upon cross-sectional data , drawn from the experience of only the largest mortgage lenders . |
| 23 | The other crches thought we were nuts , but useful , and since they relied on government funds , and the butis worked on spontaneous gifts of love and the sale of silk flowers , we had outlasted most of them . |
| 24 | Most of the lakes in the park dry up since they rely on the north-east monsoon . |
| 25 | People need rules in order to live and work together efficiently , and they need to be protected when they rely on those rules . |
| 26 | The records typically understate the concentration of wealth , for they rely on individual declarations which are manipulated and presented so as to minimise apparent wealth holdings . |
| 27 | The middle 30 per cent owned land but did not employ labour , as they relied on family members . |
| 28 | Such women may have been rather running businesses than producing goods in so far as they relied on journeymen . |