Example sentences of "[adv] relied [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So in the Westinghouse case , one group of witnesses successfully claimed a privilege existing in English law , while another group of witnesses successfully relied upon a privilege existing in the law of the United States , the requesting State . |
| 2 | The Duchess has even taken up sketching to feel more at one with the subject of her new book ( Victoria apparently relied on her own sketches rather than paparazzi snaps or pictures in Hello ! as mementoes of overseas trips ) and admits that she , like the late Queen , is a ‘ tireless traveller ’ . |
| 3 | It means a nervous dependence upon nature , a relationship with a step-parent who can never be entirely relied upon . |
| 4 | When you have read a case in the reports or in a case book , do your best to convey this fact by referring to some apposite passage in the judgment or some other relevant detail of the report which will indicate that you have not merely relied on a textbook . |
| 5 | Switzerland has long relied on Italian and Spanish workers . |
| 6 | Lloyd 's has hitherto relied on the promises of rich men and women to meet exceptional insurance losses from their personal resources ; in recompense for this personal risk , they were often handsomely rewarded . |
| 7 | The fact , much relied on in some more recent cases in the Ormandy line , that service by mail is not allowed in domestic Japanese cases can not be relevant ; Japan could have objected to Article 10(a) but chose not to do so . |
| 8 | It remains to mention a point much relied upon by the applicant , namely that if section 2 stands unqualified , the investigation will continue in being , and hence the inquisitorial powers of the Director will continue to be exercisable , until the prosecution is either dropped , or concluded by a verdict . |
| 9 | In the past it had been very much relied upon to provide a representative and authoritative comment upon the affairs of the Bar . |
| 10 | Until fairly recently , tropical silviculture has largely relied on natural regeneration . |
| 11 | Recent British studies of dementia prevalence have largely relied upon the twelve-item information/orientation scale from the Clifton Assessment procedures for the Elderly ( CAPE ) ( Pattie and Gilleard 1979 ) . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , few of them actually ever bothered to try it for themselves — they just relied on the evidence presented . |
| 13 | Just relied on my serve and that was not working . ’ |
| 14 | Just relied on my serve and that was not working . ’ |
| 15 | But by the third quarter of the nineteenth century , with an efficient railway service and a telegraphic system , road transport was no longer relied on and the two largest funeral furnishing houses , Messrs Dottridge of London and Ingall , Parsons & Clive of Birmingham , were dealing with telegraphic orders dispatched by rail , to reach any part of Great Britain within two days . |
| 16 | She was accountable to no one and was no longer relied upon by anyone . |
| 17 | These generally relied on voluntary action by the relevant professional associations , although they have often only come after protracted negotiations following official investigations . |
| 18 | They have usually relied on the grossness of the physical threat , rather than its certainty , to do the work . |
| 19 | While the other banks were opening and buying banks around the world to service the growing flows of international capital , Midland still relied on a network of correspondents . |
| 20 | The array did not fall completely into disuse , and the crown still relied on the sheriffs to call the posse comitatus to deal with local disturbances . |
| 21 | Britain by comparison still relied on the democratic traditions of local government , as fictionally portrayed in Winifred Holtby 's South Riding ( 1936 ) . |
| 22 | From the early 60's , while most company operations still relied on manual systems , the payrolls for several sites were processed centrally at Dartford using an ICL 1202 processor . |
| 23 | Many armies still relied on civilians to drive their artillery train and baggage-wagons , and on draught animals commandeered from civilians to pull them . |
| 24 | A recent survey of selection methods used by companies in both Britain and France for management selection , demonstrated that although the number of British companies using psychological tests had increased since an earlier survey carried out in 1984 ( Robertson and Makin , 1986 ) most organisations still relied on the traditional selection methods of the application form , interview and letters of reference ( Shackleton and Newell , 1991 ) . |
| 25 | Commercial farmers ( increasingly Africans who have taken over in the wake of the slow European exodus since Independence ) are still relied upon to provide the bulk of the urban demand for foodstuffs , particularly luxury items such as beef , milk , and cheese . |
| 26 | Certainly the telegraph was more and more relied on . |
| 27 | The economic prosperity of the county once relied on leather , footwear and other traditional activities . |
| 28 | Featherstone is another area that once relied on coal and it is also where I taught for 12 years as deputy head of a comprehensive school which I established . |
| 29 | Every friend you 've ever relied on in government would have trouble remembering your name . |
| 30 | The judge further relied on observations of Hodgson J. giving the judgment of this court in Reg. v. Keenan [ 1990 ] 2 Q.B . |