Example sentences of "depend [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But right now what is needed is a bottom-up approach ; entrusting the forests to those increasingly organised peoples whose survival has depended for generations on environmental knowledge . |
| 2 | Christianity , in common with other religions , depended for its spread on several concepts . |
| 3 | In the course of time the pirates turned merchants became a great hereditary patriciate , and Venice came to rule a mercantile empire much akin to that of ancient Athens , even in the end to acquire a large contado along and behind the Italian coast — but only after it had depended for centuries on piracy and trade for its food and livelihood . |
| 4 | Dyarchy had always depended for its successful working on the exercise of tactful influence by the British governor and his officials , who had their reputations invested in preventing the resignations of their Indian colleagues ; but Irwin 's formulation took the controlling role allotted to influence much further . |
| 5 | Social control depended for respect on agencies which proved increasingly inadequate . |
| 6 | Because the laws of war derive to a large extent from standards which have developed within states , and because they have always depended for their enforcement largely on national legal systems , court decisions have been a very important source of the laws of war . |
| 7 | Arbitration bestowed legitimacy upon the early trade unions — they were explicitly recognised and the system depended for its effectiveness upon their participation . |
| 8 | And as the handmaid of religiosity , ritual 's part was to express and impress those sentiments of group adherence on which the orderly life of the social organism depended for its survival . |
| 9 | This makes one wonder just how many other kinds of excavations have depended for their chronology on similar evidence . |
| 10 | The authoritarian paterfamilias presided over the institutionalisation of the double standard , while the pedestalised mother and wife depended for her purity on the degradation of the fallen woman . |
| 11 | Like most peoples of the forest and tundra , the Tungus depended for their livelihood upon herds of domesticated reindeer , their use of which had several specific features . |
| 12 | Although these depended for their success on voluntary support , the Association went on to lobby for new towns sponsored by the State . |
| 13 | As yet , however , there was no indication from the accounts available to Gould that these different species of finch depended for their characteristics on their different localities . |
| 14 | Her book is not a comprehensive history of English garden design , but a much chancier , though equally delightful narrative depending for its emphasis on what happened to find its way into the collection . |
| 15 | Declaration of a republic , by the monarch or by Ministers , could have no legal effect upon legislation recognising the monarchy and would be revolutionary thus depending for its constitutionality upon acquiescence and effectiveness . |
| 16 | In every aspect of his work Caro is brazenly derivative , depending for effect on the assertiveness of scale , and is , in essence , trivial ; but , translated from the Tate Gallery to the Roman Forum ( see The Art Newspaper No. 18 , May 1992 , p. 5 ) , he is this year the beam in the public 's eye ( would that he were only a mote ) , and thus inevitably the choice of Heaths and Fanfanis . |
| 17 | Adopting and extending the Gothic taste for punctuating walls with large windows , he built a skeletal structure depending for its stability on the skilful use of flying buttresses . |
| 18 | It is rather a display of witty dexterity , depending for its effect upon a sharing of specialized learning between author/narrator and readers/listeners . |
| 19 | The feeding process takes quite a long time , depending of course on the sizes of the individuals concerned and various environmental factors , such as temperature ( see p. 303 ) . |
| 20 | I had been used to analysing speech — such as in a radio discussion — which ran at an average rate of 300 syllables a minute , depending of course on such variables as personality and regional accent ( for some accents are spoken much more rapidly than others ) . |
| 21 | Yes , depending of course on what it costs me . |
| 22 | The integrity of trails depends during their existence on no component object being deleted during maintenance of the hyper-media data-base . |
| 23 | They depend as a rule on the same sorts of schematic stimulus-recognition systems and simple processing seen in less elaborate behaviour . |
| 24 | 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 : |
| 25 | This depends for its prima facie plausibility upon the assumption that there can , should or must be a correlation between the quantity of energy incident on nervous tissue and the intensity of experience . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Some 40 per cent of the world 's population depends for drinking water , irrigation and hydro-electric power on 214 river systems shared by two or more countries . |
| 28 | … 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 . |
| 29 | Successful conservation may well imply a cutback in commercial crops and therefore a reduction in foreign exchange on which the state elite depends for its imported luxuries , foreign travel and education . |
| 30 | 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 . |