Example sentences of "[adv] rely [prep] a " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Sometimes , two pavements can exhibit an identity of many features — suggesting an almost identical workforce ; on other occasions , e.g. where large numbers of mosaicists were employed ( perhaps four or five craftsmen ) , the similarity of one pavement to another may not be immediately clear , and so relies upon an interpretation of technique and small details of design . |
| 4 | Since railways were built anywhere , they could not necessarily rely on a local labour-force , but developed a corps of nomadic labourers ( known in Britain as the ‘ navvies ’ ) , such as still characterises the great construction projects all over the world . |
| 5 | The voting-oriented positive approaches to redistribution , given the comments above , may seem on stronger ground in explaining policy in that they largely rely on a narrow self-interest motive to make them tick . |
| 6 | However , current research shows that early humans did not generally rely on a meat diet , but that plant foods were at least as important : far from being mighty hunters , early humans are more likely to have been opportunist scavengers . |
| 7 | Only in Britain could employers already rely on a ready-made , indeed on a largely self-made , supply of skilled men with industrial experience . |
| 8 | A defendant who admits his conviction but denies its relevance is probably also putting up a positive case and not just relying on a denial of which particulars would not normally be ordered . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Her prose has always relied on a certain musicality and lyricism to seduce and keep us spellbound . |
| 11 | Even in the initial stages of the movement , when the painters still relied to a large extent on visual models , their paintings are not so much records of the sensory appearance of their subjects , as expressions in pictorial terms of their idea or knowledge of them . |
| 12 | Some systems still rely on a batch pagination method while others , like Interleaf , do the whole thing on the fly . |
| 13 | But even in the Sixties , during her hard-up days as a young Broadway dancer , before she found fame in Rowan and Martin 's Laugh-In , she promised herself she would never , ever rely on a man for her money . |
| 14 | Bem ( 1979b , 1983 ) tries to impart social validity to the cognitive approach ; but she still relies on a cognitive concept , that of the schema , to explain how gender relations become an integral part of subjectivity . |
| 15 | All this means that you can usually rely on a High Elf force to do what you want , when you want . |
| 16 | Frustrated national movements like those of the Irish , or south Slavs of the Dual Monarchy , of the Armenians in Turkey or the Poles in Russia , could usually rely upon a reflex of ready sympathy in at least some foreign countries . |
| 17 | Harry always looked immaculate and unruffled , and he was one of those players upon whom the Manager , his team colleagues and supporters can always rely for a composed and controlled performance . |
| 18 | You ca n't always rely on a partner to do that for you . |
| 19 | It 's rather ironic that , over a quarter of century later , we 're still relying on a charitable organisation to meet most of our preschool provision needs . |
| 20 | However that may be , Cooke P. also relied on an analogy which their Lordships are unable to accept . |
| 21 | Children were constrained in the kinds of response possible and so appeared to treat less as more ; the younger children probably relied on a non-linguistic strategy of choosing the greater of two amounts , and this would account for responses to both more ( apparently correct ) and less ( apparently wrong ) when combined with partial or even no lexical knowledge ; and lastly , children were not given instructions with both more and less on the same occasion . |
| 22 | He also relied on an earlier account which had mentioned ‘ 607 sabres ’ . |
| 23 | However , he also relied upon a number of criticisms of the judge 's summing up . |
| 24 | In addition to the types of conjunction discussed by Halliday and Hasan , English also relies on a highly developed punctuation system to signal breaks and relations between chunks of information . |
| 25 | As part of the government 's support for renewable energy schemes , refuse-derived fuel ( RDF ) will be used in a new power station in Slough which also relies on a circulating fluidized bed , a form of clean coal technology . |
| 26 | If there is anything to quibble about in Wilson 's thorough and engaging study which also relies on an extensive body of secondary material , as reflected in the footnotes and excellent up-to-date bibliography , it is in the section relating to the musical sources of the lauda in the 15th and early 16th centuries . |
| 27 | Two- and three-year-olds , who did not yet know less , were not as consistent , and their responses to less and tiv — and possibly to more as well — suggested that , in the absence of lexical knowledge , they were probably relying on a non-linguistic strategy of choosing the greater amount ( Trehub and Abramovitch , 1978 ) . |
| 28 | The Dutch sellers now relied upon a clause ( clause 13 ) in their contract of sale with the buyers and claimed therefore to have proprietary rights entitling them to have priority over the buyers ' other creditors . |
| 29 | They often rely on a combination of formal computer-based procedures and judgement . |
| 30 | Many families now rely on a joint income to meet their living costs . |