Example sentences of "rely upon a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He relied upon a passage in the judgment of this court in Reg. v. Jelen ( 1989 ) 90 Cr.App.R. 456 . |
| 2 | In 1862 , Robert Lowe 's notorious Revised Code introduced ‘ payment by results ’ which relied upon a form of minimum competencies testing . |
| 3 | However , he also relied upon a number of criticisms of the judge 's summing up . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Most certainly , the Conservatives relied upon a theme song which combined Al Jolson 's hit song ‘ Sonny Boy ’ with the dependability of Baldwin , the first few lines of which ran as follows : |
| 7 | Hence a hotelier may not , in a case which has resulted in the death of or personal injury to a lawful visitor due to the hotelier 's breach of duty under the OLA 1957 , rely upon a notice or clause which purports to exclude liability for such injury . |
| 8 | The other type of attachment relies upon a spring , which needs to be pressed in order to allow the loop of the collar to be secured . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Instead he must rely upon a claim for damages , but is otherwise obliged to keep the goods and pay for them ( see SGA 1979 , s 11(4) ) . |
| 11 | If the creditor knew that the surety , whilst understanding the nature of the liability he or she was accepting , was in fact acting under the influence of the debtor , then it would not be safe for the creditor to rely upon a document executed in these circumstances , unless it believed on reasonable grounds that the surety had in fact received independent advice . |
| 12 | However , assuming the properties are significant assets , a full investigation of title is to be preferred to either reliance upon a certificate from the vendor 's solicitors that the vendor has a good and marketable title ( since certificates of title are qualified and their benefit depends upon the status of the firm of solicitors providing them ) or reliance upon warranties and indemnities alone since the purchaser would rather have problems disclosed before the purchase than have to rely upon a right to sue under warranties which will be subject to general limitations . |