Example sentences of "[modal v] depend [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether or not an effective school library should depend on voluntary labour and charity remains a specific instance of a wider political issue which schools across the nation face daily . |
| 2 | In so far as is possible , such new activities should depend on local human and physical resources . |
| 3 | It is undesirable that the legal effect of Protocol II should depend upon municipal law doctrine as to its relationship with international law . |
| 4 | Their profitability must depend on successful technology transfer requires that the people who provide the technology , or who act as facilitators of technology transfer , must do so as a business . |
| 5 | Their profitability must depend on successful technology transfer so that they make the effort to market and sell their wares , they follow up all the awareness campaigns , and they actively seek out clients with the aim of transferring technology in a partnership of mutual benefit . |
| 6 | collective bargaining is not typically concluded by a contract , specifying in detail the future rights and duties of either side but by an understanding [ which ] must depend on personal relationships and customary usages . |
| 7 | Whether he develops it , and in what tissue , must depend on other factors — such as exposure to chemical carcinogens , for example in food or cigarette smoke . |
| 8 | Even if the essence of originality lies in certain modes of psychotic thought , the ability to harness this in effective creative work — and by the same token the capacity to resist the psychopathology which it implies — must depend on other factors being present . |
| 9 | A caring and just society must depend on public and private provision — and , in the words of John Patten , ‘ a third force ’ , namely the active citizen . |
| 10 | In the grey area between the two ‘ pass ’ and ‘ fail ’ limits , the decision might depend on personal assessment . |
| 11 | Thus , the proliferation stage of CFA may depend to large extent on mitogenic factors produced by the epithelium , including transforming growth factor , tumour necrosis factor , and ET-1 , acting synergistically to stimulate fibroblast growth and extracellular production . |
| 12 | Though competition between individuals or populations , leading to the selection of one and the demise of the other , may well fine-tune the course of evolution , the mass replacement of one dominant life-form by another may depend on environmental factors or chance events that lead to the disappearance of the first before the second can begin to radiate . |
| 13 | The stance adopted by the Act does not concede the full force of the argument that ‘ there may be a need for a clear legislative recognition that expression of unashamedly racist sentiments , as such , is an aspect of freedom of speech too costly in terms of long-term social disharmony to be tolerated in a pluralistic society where ultimately the possibility of democracy and civil liberty may depend on wholehearted public commitment to the fostering of social solidarity . ’ |
| 14 | Grigorovich and the others are cashing in on the myth — the blanket subsidies have been slashed , and their jobs may depend on box-office returns . |
| 15 | Decisions as to sex may depend in difficult cases on following a preponderance of factors and ignoring or correcting inconvenient anomalies . |
| 16 | Any progress on carbon taxes , however , would depend on EC-wide agreement , and its eventual structure would in any case be strongly influenced by the Treasury . |
| 17 | On his return on Jan. 5 Botha referred to contacts with other ( unnamed ) Eastern European countries , but said that the establishment of diplomatic relations would depend on internal developments in South Africa in the coming months . |
| 18 | Further institutional integration would depend on political circumstances , and the aim was for the Krajina Assembly 's mandate to be endorsed by the Serbian Assembly . |
| 19 | " It would depend on nervous strain or other excitement , of course , but from the look of things this strikes me as a fairly cool job . |
| 20 | The first choice line up would depend on current fitness and form |
| 21 | Reports indicated that further relief from the United States , the European Communities ( EC ) and other donors would depend on discernable improvements in human rights ; reports in April and November from the international human rights organizations Amnesty International and Africa Watch stated that the RCC had detained hundreds of political opponents , many of whom had been tortured and executed [ see also pp. 37114 ; 37367-68 ; 37845 ] . |
| 22 | This subtle strategy would depend on other judges following the new rule when murderers appeared before them claiming inheritances , rather than themselves deciding whether the murderer would spend the money more usefully than the residuary legatees . |
| 23 | The timing would depend on economic progress . |
| 24 | Arrangements for their release were in hand but would depend on individual cases and the implications for public order . |
| 25 | In an unprecedented move the Committee agreed to serve notice to developing countries seeking assistance that all future allocations would depend on effective cuts in military expenditure . |
| 26 | The meaning of any percentage figures for reductions in export support would depend on hard bargaining to determine ( i ) the base period against which reductions would be measured ; ( ii ) dates for implementation ; and ( iii ) standards for measuring export values or quantities . |
| 27 | Offering limited aid to Georgia , he said that further aid would depend on free elections and respect for minority rights . |
| 28 | Either way the Tories would depend on inveterate Tory rebels ( such as Nicholas Winterton ) or hardline Ulster unionists ( such as Ian Paisley ) . |
| 29 | On this day we would come to the other end of the running spectrum , to the fastest men and women on earth whose triumphs would depend upon mere hundredths of a second in the 100 metres . |
| 30 | His experiences there in grappling with the problems of planning the postwar development of the French economy had made him increasingly convinced that effective economic planning was beyond the capacity of any single state , but would depend upon intense cooperation between states . |