noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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Insufficient domestic savings results in greater reliance being placed on external finance from international banks, capital markets and international agencies.
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The gain with respect to coal-oil mixture is due to the much greater reliance upon coal energy.
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Paradoxically, they also encourage a greater reliance on means-tested benefits, which are divorced from employment records.
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Conversely, of course, those who have little in common have to place greater reliance on the language.
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This can be seen as one example of a greater reliance on means tests throughout the whole of the social security system.
heavy
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Also, heavy reliance upon one client is not without risk when building up a practice.
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In the beginning Stax and Motown shared a heavy reliance on the cooperation of black radio to build audiences.
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The very narrow tax base meant continued heavy reliance on massive borrowings and indirect taxes.
■ VERB
increase
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This has had damaging environmental consequences, such as creating new pressures for house building and increasing reliance on car-based transport.
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Unfortunately, we have witnessed the consequences of increasing reliance on foreign investment.
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The net result is to deter part-time employment among unemployed people and to increase women's economic reliance on their partners.
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Such improvisational cooperation involves an increasing reliance on self-management.
place
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There is a danger in placing over-much reliance on the Attorney's discretion.
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As a general warning vendors should not place too much reliance on employment cases.
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He also learned not to place too much reliance on his senses and feelings.
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Conversely, of course, those who have little in common have to place greater reliance on the language.
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You will also need to take up references, though do not place too much reliance on these.
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If he placed no reliance at all upon it, he can not complain of a misrepresentation.
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He said he placed little or no reliance on either of them as to what happened.
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However, it is wrong to place total reliance on guidebook descriptions.
reduce
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The deal is part of Intel's expansion into communications equipment and reduces its reliance on its core microprocessor business.
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We have looked at all kinds of ways to reduce our reliance on coupons.
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Since that point we have taken a number of steps to reduce students' reliance on benefits.
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Legal restrictions do not necessarily reduce reliance on abortion to limit births.
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There were cuts in the road-building programme and a ban on Sunday driving to try to reduce reliance on oil.
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Saving for a pension reduces reliance on the state.
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Even so, integrated management can reduce the farmer's reliance on pesticides.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A decreasing reliance on the inflation tax can be discerned in all four countries.
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Advertisers luring people into heavier and heavier reliance on cleansing products would be prosecuted and their bank accounts confiscated.
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It is difficult to reverse half a century of total reliance on the car.
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These ideas were taken up by the peace movement in the early-1980s as an alternative to reliance on nuclear weapons.
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They look too much to the past, and have an undue reliance on the words and works of their master Aristotle.
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Transport to the town was difficult and made for self-sufficiency and reliance on village resources.