verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
depend on/rely on aid
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The report stated that some 703,000 people relied on food aid.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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always
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We can not always rely on the fish already being there and feeling hungry too.
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Nomatterhow much you learn in theory, you should always rely on what your ear is telling you.
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Don't always rely on the bridges marked triumphantly on your map.
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When all else failed however the visitors could always rely on goalkeeper John Martin to protect the points.
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If the modelling work does dry up, Beckham can always rely on missus Posh, who earns £6million a year.
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Rosemary was a friend indeed, and you could always rely on her.
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You can't always rely on a partner to do that for you.
entirely
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Even so, one in five pensioners rely entirely on state benefits for their income.
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For air searches the Force would have to rely entirely on its own planes.
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This was good news, but they didn't want to rely entirely on him.
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But it has to rely entirely on public donations.
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Printers and typesetting houses have been embracing new methods for the last 15 years or so and now rely entirely upon them.
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Some viruses rely entirely on the enzymes of the infected cell to catalyse every step in the production of more viruses.
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It is best not to rely entirely on the paper copy since continual cross-referencing is tedious.
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We rely entirely on the concern of private individuals like yourself.
heavily
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Such widely varied writers as Webern, Dallapiccola, and Stravinsky rely heavily on the textures and idioms of early choral music.
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Instead, the Bulldogs attacked from the outside, relying heavily on three-point shooting.
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Warren accepts that they do rely heavily on advanced industrial societies for economic growth, especially for advanced technology.
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Most did not recognize that they were relying heavily upon intimidation as a strategy for influence.
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Today's comics are more lean, aggressive characters who rely heavily on sarcasm and politics for their laughs.
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Computer crackers, for all their technical savvy, rely heavily on the carelessness and ignorance of their targets.
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Many organisations rely heavily on older volunteers.
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Consultants rely heavily on focus groups be-cause it is difficult to guess what audiences will like or hate.
instead
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He would rely instead on his successful general business experience to pull him through.
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They will rely instead on reports from correspondents for their respective owners, Univision and Telemundo.
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Voters depend much less on the cues and guidance given them by party workers and rely instead on television.
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She said she rarely uses the telephone at work, relying instead on e-mail.
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Today, few restaurant companies generate ideas in-house, relying instead on acquisitions or joint ventures with entrepreneurs.
more
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By comparison firms which rely more heavily on advertising are described as adopting a pull strategy. 23.
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Parents need to read these published materials, acknowledging that some teachers will rely more or less on these.
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But I soon had to rely more and more on my imagination.
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But all that changed when the Cali cartel switched tactics and started relying more on ships and trucks to transport drugs.
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According to Warhurst and Dickson, employers now rely more on appearance and accent than on qualifications.
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The preachers rely more on stories than on sermons to carry the message.
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The interchange would also rely more on personal meetings whether at seminars or not and some records would not then exist at all.
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Eventually Ponyboy and Celie realise that they should always be themselves and rely more on their own inner strengths.
on
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This raises doubts about some of the signposts the Fed used to rely on .
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It also is a proof of concept, that a large, multinational company would rely on a reduced-complexity computing device.
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I made a full statement, the contents of which I rely on for my defence.
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This was a strategy I would rely on as I grew older.
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Experts would rely on the latest social-science findings as an alternative to prejudice and crowd psychology.
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But while more sophisticated procedures may save time, they often rely on more expensive equipment.
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Most lenders rely on credit agencies such as Equifax and Experian to check the applications.
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In making policy city officials rely on over fifty citizen advisory boards and commissions for citizen input.
solely
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It would be most unwise at present to rely solely on luminescence interpretations of geological phenomena.
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The professional also learns quickly not to rely solely upon personal qualities and a limited collection of instructional materials.
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No longer does evidence of authenticity have to rely solely on stylistic criteria, which can be unreliable.
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You will be choosing the organization and then selling yourself to them, rather than relying solely upon answering newspaper advertisements.
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But he does not rely solely on technical gadgetry.
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Even in portraying the character and spirit of a little cascade one must rely solely upon line and tone.
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But it thinks that to rely solely on market forces is a messy way of reining in a big borrower.
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They are the restraints on which the people must often rely solely , in all representative governments....
still
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But I still rely on intuition and feeling.
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States like Massachusetts, which still rely primarily on traditional third-party payment systems, find their costs doubling every five years.
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Still relying on your eyes, look at the window frames.
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Nevertheless, many Third World countries still rely heavily on selling raw material commodities as their principal source of income.
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Even the newest jazz players still rely on a catalog of tunes older than their grandfathers.
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As we shall see, some dating methods still rely on the annual passage of the seasons.
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Some systems still rely on a batch pagination method while others, like Interleaf, do the whole thing on the fly.
too
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They too rely on the wind to distribute their pollen.
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The skating of this period didn't rely too heavily on lip tricks.
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Inevitably there is a danger of relying too much on Gregory.
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But we should not rely too heavily on that distinction.
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They intend to monitor models' performance before relying too heavily upon them.
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And if you rely too heavily on rewards and punishments and use them too often, their effect becomes diminished.
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In fact, he may himself be relying too much on rational analysis in setting ideologies.
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We too rely on, if not the direct patronage, at least the goodwill of people in government and high places.
upon
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For this reason a few even chose to rely upon peers in other corporations they had met outside of work.
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There are several ways to view this publication that you read and rely upon .
■ NOUN
advice
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Instead, he believes, they rely on advice from teachers about whether or not an applicant would be compatible.
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I still rely on Rachel for advice .
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Lastly you might choose to rely on advice to farmers and fertiliser manufacturers.
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Many horse owners today can not draw upon years of experience and therefore rely heavily on advice from others.
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Being able to rely on advice can be invaluable.
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Any minister must rely on the operational advice he is given by the managers on the ground.
clause
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The burden of proving that a clause satisfies the reasonableness test is on the party who seeks to rely on the clause.
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The burden of proof is on the person seeking to rely on the clause .
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It is for this reason that a seller will usually be unable to rely on an exclusion clause printed on a receipt.
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The sellers tried to rely upon the exemption clause .
company
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If it was a drug company , they rely pretty heavily on impressive animal test data to put the product over.
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It also is a proof of concept, that a large, multinational company would rely on a reduced-complexity computing device.
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Those companies that do rely on large numbers of assembly-line workers are beginning to have difficulty finding them.
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More often than not, cable companies are forced to rely on tips and leads in pursuing pirates.
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An international company is likely to rely on agents to sell its products to the country's markets.
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The delivery companies will rely on a high level of trust and knowledge of the customer.
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Many companies rely on their continuing financial support, but this support is rarely assured for any distance into the future.
government
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Translated into today's idiom, the more that local government can rely upon its own tax base, the better.
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Entrepreneurial governments rely on information about the results of government spending-the cost and quality of government programs-to detect fraud and abuse.
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But that is what the Government rely on.
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Indeed, we do not understand the Government to rely on statutory authorization for this seizure....
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That is perhaps the weakest of all the indicators on which the Government seek to rely .
information
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And Cross soon careered out of control, relying for information on the local International Monetary Fund office.
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Entrepreneurial governments rely on information about the results of government spending-the cost and quality of government programs-to detect fraud and abuse.
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Do not, however, rely on such information as being either completely accurate or exhaustive.
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Managing is unusual in the extent in which it has been shown to rely on informal information .
party
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A party intending to rely on documentary evidence in proceedings under the Children Act must disclose this in advance.
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The burden of proving that a clause satisfies the reasonableness test is on the party who seeks to rely on the clause.
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In normal circumstances the suggestion that a contracting party can rely on his own breach to establish consideration is distinctly unattractive.
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It is accepted that the rule does not apply where the party seeking to rely on the document was guilty of fraud.
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Where both parties intend to rely on experts there should be mutual exchange, medical for medical and non-medical for non-medical.
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Voters depend much less on the cues and guidance given them by party workers and rely instead on television.
source
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They rely on four food sources , that from garden cultivation, from collecting, from hunting, and from fishing.
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A.. Certainly if you had to rely on those two sources of income alone you would have a very difficult time.
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Consequently it is necessary to rely heavily on sources of information from across the Channel.
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For this, most news directors rely on fairly traditional sources .
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Other, more modest training applications rely on non-commercial sources of funding.
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For early data it is necessary to rely on Soviet sources , and Soviet equipment, alone.
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At present we have to rely on several sources of information, which sometimes overlap, and which definitely leave great gaps.
state
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Even so, one in five pensioners rely entirely on state benefits for their income.
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Patients had to rely on varied state rules.
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He should consider pensioners who have to rely simply on the state pension and income support or a small occupational pension.
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It is not sufficient to rely upon the states .
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The more that companies support athletes, the less sportsmen will have to rely on the state .
support
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Many of those who have been sent to prison rely on income support alone.
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He and his disabled wife rely on income support .
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We rely upon the support of the families to retain personnel within the forces.
technology
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This is why Kenneth Baker has promised longer franchises for operators prepared to install systems that rely on switched-star technology .
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Establishing that networking systems, relying on advanced computer technology , can provide individual service to teachers and special learners. 2.
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Nor can they rely on technology from other mainframe firms.
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Instead, we rely on technology .
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Among the other museums on site, several rely on technology for a 3D animation theatre or a trip through the universe.
■ VERB
continue
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Such programmes continue to rely , therefore, on political will and the commitment of those with expertise in operating them.
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While the upgrade solves short-term problems, it still means the information pipeline will continue to rely on manual data entry.
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I decided we couldn't continue to rely on showbiz.
force
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But they're frustrated that most of the time, they're forced to rely on a helping hand.
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More often than not, cable companies are forced to rely on tips and leads in pursuing pirates.
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Small firms are consequently forced to rely much more on trade credit to finance their operations.
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It followed, therefore, that in cases of black revolt, states would be forced to rely on their own resources.
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With the advent of Verbivore, however, people are forced once again to rely on their own cognitive and creative resources.
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She was forced to rely on a wheelchair to get around.
need
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Here we need to rely on our social scientific knowledge about our own legal and social institutions.
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Consequently, Iridium will need to rely on more lucrative business customers than it had envisioned.
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Like Nelson he was thoroughly familiar with those on whom he would need most to rely .
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To convince the inspector, the board will need to rely on its other arguments, to which we now turn.
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This would ensure that most pensioners would not need to rely on means-tested benefits.
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In such circumstances the purchaser will then need to rely upon the terms of the sale agreement to recover from the vendor.
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But we do not need to rely on actual mistakes in the past.
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Others may need to rely on it pending the grant of legal aid.
seek
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The burden of proving that a clause satisfies the reasonableness test is on the party who seeks to rely on the clause.
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The burden of proof is on the person seeking to rely on the clause.
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It is accepted that the rule does not apply where the party seeking to rely on the document was guilty of fraud.
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That is perhaps the weakest of all the indicators on which the Government seek to rely .
tend
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Woman-centred methods also tend to rely uncritically on the particular kinds of scientificity that therapeutic and humanist methods have developed.
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Behavioral therapists tend to rely on a variety of techniques and approaches to facilitate recovery.
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Courts under pressure tend to rely on devices which take attention away from the underlying issues.
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His observations tend to rely on the sort of general disgruntlement that is the writer / drunk's off-duty state.
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They tend to rely on a rapid turnover of stock, to keep down inventory levels.
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Or does it tend to rely on implicit connections of meaning?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Don't rely on your Accounts Department to manage the cash-flow for you.
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Government ministers rely on the conclusions from the Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment prior to the field trials.
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If managers rely so heavily on verbal information, then that verbal information invariably arrives with an extra verbal overlay.
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Instead, they would rely on decentralized, uncontrolled life to sort itself out and come to some self-enhancing harmony.
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She needn't rely any more on Rico - or her brothers, she could be entirely independent.
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So don't rely on your memory.
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Woman-centred methods also tend to rely uncritically on the particular kinds of scientificity that therapeutic and humanist methods have developed.