Example sentences of "which depends for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Favret-Saada 's unique analysis ( ibid. 1–28 ) of the bizarre subjective position she found herself in is a masterful assessment of the difficulties which arise when the ethnographer seeks to gain knowledge of a social group which depends for its existence on ‘ misknowledge ’ or silence : |
| 2 | The fluxgate magnetometer , which depends for its action on the detection of saturation occurring in magnetic material , can be made both small and highly accurate . |
| 3 | … the profound darkness of every part of the city in which there are not shops illuminated by the owners with gas … there is not a little country town in England which is not incomparably better lighted than any street in Paris which depends for its illumination upon the public regulations of the City . |
| 4 | Unlike a factory which depends for its efficiency on changing technology , the investment of labour , materials and energy represented in a building continues to yield a return even centuries after its construction . |
| 5 | There was as well , similar but a whole step in advance , the why-dun-it , the book which depends for its interest on showing that someone who could easily enough have committed a certain murder but who on the face of it was incapable of that particular crime ( i.e. one who had J. C. Masterman 's aces of spades , hearts and diamonds but apparently not clubs ) is nevertheless seen eventually to be psychologically capable of that crime after all , once probed deeply enough . |