Example sentences of "[noun] depend upon " in BNC.

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1 In rural communities , pressures to conform to a fixed structure of normative obligations were strong , since most people 's livelihood depended upon remaining within the family unit .
2 This argument takes one of two forms depending upon the outlook of its proponent : either it is said that Europe must look to her own defence as a consequence of the American disengagement ; alternatively it is argued that Europe ought in principle to defend herself , so as to speed the departure of the US troops and be free of American ‘ domination ’ .
3 Where a court adjudges a Member bankrupt , it must notify the Speaker and , after six months , when the House takes note of the order , he may become disqualified and remain so after his discharge , the length of the disqualification depending upon whether the court certifies that he was not at fault ( in which case the period is one year ) , failing which the period is five years .
4 It is a question of fact in each case depending upon the circumstances , section 31(2) .
5 Any such movement usually occurs in the early part of a buildings 's life but this may not always be the case depending upon the nature of the subsoil upon which the building is founded .
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7 The change depended upon changes in the wider context of controversy , which provoked the development of formerly implicit attitudinal aspects .
8 Political leadership of the cause remained , into the 1830s , in the hands primarily of the upper echelons of the Anglican middle class but mass support depended upon the activism of evangelical dissent down to and including the artisan class .
9 Yeah , that 's the whole thing , we 've gathered all the information now , we may 've been there an hour , hour an a half , maybe two hours depending upon the appointment so you go back to the office and work on a plan of attack .
10 Distinctions between errors within and errors going to jurisdiction should be discarded ; any error of law should be held to be jurisdictional if the case depended upon it .
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12 Progress depended upon an ascetic , unflinching commitment to ‘ realism ’ .
13 As we have seen , the degree to which this entailed the active participation of staff across the curriculum depended upon the quality of liaison and feedback to the committee itself .
14 Yet terms such as ‘ resources ’ , ‘ employee , ’ or ‘ structural alteration ’ may be capable of having a spectrum of possible meanings depending upon the overall scope and policy of the legislation .
15 The authors concerned assume that the word " father " ( or its equivalent in other languages ) has a single meaning in itself , whereas in fact it has many different meanings depending upon what other term forms the other half of the dyadic relationship .
16 The net effect may add a further £3–4 per hour depending upon aircraft utilisation .
17 France persisted in operating a policy of cross-subsidisation where profitable coal mines subsidised those making losses , and where in any case the profitability of the whole industry depended upon generous governmental support — both policies which directly infringed the conditions of the ECSC treaty .
18 Here is one obvious link between borrowing and taxation : each new issue of funded stock depended upon either the introduction of a tax or the rescheduling of an existing one .
19 As Figures 7.4 and 7.5 show , these may be referred to as Car Ways , Access Ways , Mews Courts , or Housing Squares depending upon design and capacity .
20 Swastika , a Sanskrit word , means literally ‘ well-being ’ , which has many variables depending upon the application .
21 The inclusion of the charterer 's duties in the text of the charter party made this contract conditional in the sense that its enforcement by the charterer depended upon fulfillment of the specified conditions .
22 Therefore the signal extraction problem will yield different solutions depending upon the economic environment : economies with highly volatile aggregate demand movements will , ceteris paribus , be economies in which agents will attribute a high proportion of any unexpectedly high or low price to an aggregate demand shock ; economies with highly stable aggregate demand will , ceteris paribus , be economies in which agents will attribute a low proportion of any unexpectedly high or low price to an aggregate demand shock .
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25 Likewise , a carpenter or joiner might be on a set day rate but who for a period might take on a separate contract to saw timber at a rate per 100 ft. , the figure depending upon the hardness of the wood .
26 Ie you choose a few players and you work out your result depending upon how those players did on saturday .
27 According to ‘ positioning theory ’ this understanding of behaviour is a mutual creation through the interaction of the parties depending upon which of the many possible selves has been confirmed in the ‘ storyline ’ that is accepted .
28 Thus , paradoxical as it may seem , the rapid growth of means of production during the boom depended upon much scrapping of means of production .
29 And remember that this is in addition to the calories you are burning away every day during aerobic walking , another 200–400 calories depending upon time and effort .
30 A rise in either government expenditure or the quantity of money will shift the aggregate demand curve to the right , the exact size of the effect depending upon the slopes of the IS and LM curves .
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