Example sentences of "depends [adv] [adj] upon [art] " in BNC.

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1 Delegation depends as much upon the personality of the delegator as upon the abilities of the person to whom power is given .
2 This is essentially a linguistic problem , whose solution probably depends as much upon the range of your vocabulary , and your response to the stimulus of words , rather than upon your capacity to reason formally through a set of data in order to arrive at a valid solution .
3 Success in communication depends as much upon the receiver as on the sender .
4 Between speakers of different languages it depends as much upon the native speaker as on the foreign learner .
5 This depends very much upon the individual , but peer-group support is often invaluable .
6 Advice on time-zone transitions depends very much upon the kind of journey being made , so we consider the following possibilities : • A flight crossing only a few ( one or two ) time zones ; • A flight crossing several time zones , ( to the west or east ) and when the stop-over , before returning home , is short ; • A flight crossing several time zones to the west where there is sufficient time and need for adjustment to the new time zone ; • A flight as in the last example , but to the east .
7 It is evident that the success achieved by any army depends very much upon the quality of its leadership , a subject much discussed by writers of the day .
8 Whether or not it is practical or desirable to introduce gender neutrality into the law of rape depends very much upon the type of reform contemplated for the offence as a whole .
9 that what a child takes from his or her school depends very little upon the quality of the school experience itself but very greatly on the nature of the pupil 's intelligence and family and community background .
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