great reliance on

collocation in English

meaningsofgreat,relianceandon

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great
adjective
uk
/ɡreɪt/
us
/ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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reliance
noun[U]
uk
/rɪˈlaɪ.əns/
us
/rɪˈlaɪ.əns/
the state of depending on or trusting in something ...
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on
preposition
uk
/ɒn/
us
/ɑːn/
used to show that something is in a position above something else and touching it, or that something is moving into such ...
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(Definition ofgreat,relianceandonfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The authors'greatrelianceon testimonial evidence, however, makes the book vulnerable to factual slips, romanticised depictions and unfortunate omissions.
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The customers using the link will placegreatrelianceupon the fact that it will not be subject to strikes and interruption.
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I agree that it is not easy to set a figureper capitaincome on which we can placegreatreliance.
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There is agreatrelianceon the telephone in remote areas.
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Greatreliancewas placed upon him then andgreatreliancewas placed upon him in 1926.
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He has the advice and direction of doctors, medical officers and eminent men, highly qualified, on whom he can placegreatreliance.
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That is why, in the foreseeable future, we shall be puttinggreatrelianceon the variety offered by nuclear energy.
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In the first place, it has proved most valuable to placegreatrelianceon the school and academic record of the applicant.
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The retentionists putgreatrelianceon the fact that divorce is injurious to children; and so it is.
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Greatreliancecannot be put on judges spending time controlling television in their courts.
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We still placegreatrelianceon this industry to fulfil the job it has under the selective expansion programme.
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I have never placed verygreatrelianceon that type of argument, because in this connection figures can be made to prove almost anything.
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These ladies, whom we cannot sufficiently admire, are placinggreatrelianceupon us.
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Greatrelianceis placed on the safety of life at sea convention, which introduces the principle of passenger registration in a specific regulation.
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I saw agreatrelianceplaced on one particular measure of wealth—the survey of households receiving below average incomes.
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Patients are on occasions faced with unacceptable behaviour from those health professionals on whom they placegreatreliance.
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As a result, social services departments have to placegreatrelianceon agency staff.
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However, in present market conditions it would be wrong to place anygreatrelianceon this happening.
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First, such a ceiling would place verygreatrelianceupon getting grant related expenditure assessments exactly right.
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