Example sentences of "rely on [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The world 's best golfers rely on their equipment as much as their skill . |
| 32 | Although perhaps rather few people rely on their relatives for regular financial support , many people go through times in their lives when such support is important to their capacity to establish or maintain a particular life style . |
| 33 | You will then be asked to fill out a loan application form with information such as your name and address , where you work , your income and outgoings , etc. banks do n't always ask you to deposit security or collateral to back a loan : they generally rely on their assessment of your ability to repay . |
| 34 | Some are the head of the family with husband and children dependent on their salary some are single parents and some rely on their income to provide for the shortfall in their partner 's earnings . |
| 35 | Nearly all the much bigger fruit bats rely on their large eyes to find their way and in consequence , like owls , they can not fly in caves where there is no light whatsoever . |
| 36 | The loss of our semi-professional status would bring about a mass exodus of players as many of them rely on their match fees to bolster dole cheques . |
| 37 | Some are street kids who rely on their ingenuity to keep alive . |
| 38 | The integrity of judicial and other institutions which enforce justice rely on their being perceived as impartial in their administration . |
| 39 | These little sneak fertilizers however are young and small of course , this is what they rely on their enormous of speed for , and they grow up into female mimics or transvestites , and what a transvestite does is when a regular male and a regular female are in the nest swimming around together doing the regular thing , the transvestite swims in , appearing as a second female . |
| 40 | Those taxing bills , whether district judges in the county court or taxing officers in the High Court , rely on their experience to know what sort of figures are reasonable for each particular task performed . |
| 41 | At that stage he seems to have cut his natural philosophy from the worsted cliches of a poor childhood : ‘ never rely on anybody else ’ , ‘ make yourself independent as soon as you can ’ , ‘ put a bit by for a rainy day ’ , ‘ do n't let the good times run away with you ’ . |
| 42 | It gives rise , moreover , to an even graver reservation about the efficacy of arguments which rely on our intuitions about agency . |
| 43 | If we now ask how we are able to get any grasp of the explanatory role of class strategy in Poulantzas ' theory , the answer is that we rely on our everyday , voluntarist understanding of it . |
| 44 | Erm , this is something that I 've spoken with about over a long period and what really has concerned me is that we 've two red signals , both facing the traffic and children and blind people could be crossing thinking the traffic had held up , and when I or detecting we rely on our own engineers maybe going round that way , maybe the police or public reporting it . |
| 45 | Mrs Rymer said : ‘ I am relieved this is going through as 50,000 houses rely on our work . |
| 46 | Watch where everyone else is , but rely on your instincts . ’ |
| 47 | Michael Ramsey says more pithily , ‘ Rely on your consecrated hunch ! ’ |
| 48 | When choosing one , rely on your instincts . |
| 49 | Since your viewfinder picture is not in colour ( unless you are one of the lucky ones who have a camcorder with a colour viewfinder to bring along on a shoot ) , you have a rely on your camcorder 's white balance system to get the colour-balancing right for you — and it probably will . |
| 50 | If space is at a premium , you should decide which , if any , plants you wish to grow yourself and then rely on your florist , or generous friends , for all the other varieties . |
| 51 | If , like me , you tend to sit on mountains of paper , and rely on your memory to root out a reference , then you will need to be strong and discipline yourself to filing items away as soon as you have finished with them , either in folders or binders or in cabinet or box file , depending on the amount of space you have available . |
| 52 | If you rely on your computer and value the investment you have made , then it is well worth the few minutes spent on preventative maintenance . |
| 53 | ‘ You rely on your natural charm and beauty ? |
| 54 | I have not seen the film The Last Temptation of Christ ( Reviews 189 ) and my comments therefore rely on your excellent review article . |
| 55 | So I 've decided to place my trust in a retailer and rely on my common sense and experience when it comes to assembling packages from a variety of sources rather than one . |
| 56 | And I also rely on my evidence of of quoting another custodian of Government policy namely the Prime Minister and its current Prime Minister erm who makes the point that proposals for development must not be turned down simply because it is the safest course . |
| 57 | But remember this ; I rely on you to see that my name is not sullied by reason of this hare-brained scheme . ’ |
| 58 | I think you have to when a lot of people rely on you . ’ |
| 59 | I rely on you for my information on domestic American politics , on which , admittedly , I am not an expert . |
| 60 | I rely on you gentlemen |