Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] depend [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pray tell me , Joan Halidon , that I may depend on your loyalty to my daughter . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You know the bad consequence of my laying myself under unnecessary obligation , and you will therefore take care that I only do it for real Friends that I can depend upon , ’ the member of parliament warned . |
| 3 | You may depend upon it I will observe my master 's orders . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , she wo n't know if nobody tells her , ’ said Camille , but , in truth , she knew she could depend on the discretion of her friends . |
| 5 | Paul had been one of her chums on the team , and she knew she could depend on him to get her work independently analysed by another department — at least she hoped she could , because he seemed to think Jason had simply made a mistake . |
| 6 | He waited , and then said , ‘ She will depend on you . |
| 7 | What is available to you will depend on your needs and on the policy of the local authority . |
| 8 | The decisions you make concerning the right goals for you will depend on your current weight , your optimum weight , and the eating and exercise habits you recorded in your preparation phase . |
| 9 | The transition from returner to returned can be helped by the understanding of colleagues and tutors , but inevitably your success in meeting any new demands made upon you will depend on your own reserves of willpower , assertiveness , give and take , and common sense . |
| 10 | ‘ You can depend on that ! ’ , he added , ‘ Nobody is going to get us away from this place again . ’ |
| 11 | Well for instance you can depend on a man not to get pregnant . |
| 12 | For a deeper view of international investment , you need data you can depend on : Datastream . |
| 13 | Whether you travel with a briefcase and a laptop computer , or a suitcase and a camera , you can depend on GTF to supply all you need . |
| 14 | ‘ You can depend on me . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ He will do what he ought to do — you can depend on that . ’ |
| 16 | And yesterday she told Mr Fallon : ‘ You can depend on my vote . ’ |
| 17 | But rest assured : in the longer term , giving reasons will certainly foster their compliance and , most important , the sort of reliability you can depend upon even when you are not there to keep an eye on things . |
| 18 | They are , by way of the summary description on which we shall depend until Chapter 5 , electrochemical events . |
| 19 | Of course , all of these things only become possible when we can depend on the help and support of all our people . |
| 20 | We can depend on you to come in on Sunday ca n't we ? |
| 21 | Whilst cost budgets may be based on internal standards , they may depend on the sales volume of the business activity . |
| 22 | Farmyard , horse , cow , pig , sheep , goat , poultry and similar ‘ raw ’ manures are all very variable because they must depend upon the food intake of the animals concerned , and the age of the manure — the time it has been stacked for nitrogenous urine to have drained out or been decomposed . |
| 23 | The letter had not been answered , and the Laird of Gartmore took offence , declaring ‘ that if he did not get such trifles to oblige his friends that they might depend upon his going against them ’ . |
| 24 | Like Hannay , Chesterton would adapt quickly to the strangeness of his new environment , evolving into a pillar of strength on whom the audience knew they could depend in times of crisis . |
| 25 | They will depend on many factors including the characteristics of your business , ages of directors , and the size of their shareholdings . |
| 26 | It is difficult for them to know just how great are the gaps in your knowledge and the limitations on your competence , and so they will depend on you to make your own initial assessment . |
| 27 | This test is based on the following implications of the hypothesis : if expectations of a variable are rational , they are formed in accordance with the process determining that variable and therefore they will depend upon any set of past variables in exactly the same way as the variable itself depends upon that set of past variables . |
| 28 | It should be recognised as the only organisation that the deaf mutes of the whole United Kingdom can look to as the protector of their interests , and they should have something they can depend upon . |
| 29 | Objections such as these are difficulties rather than fundamental flaws in the method , although , since the statistical methods devised to cope with them will depend on certain assumptions ( for instance , a 2 per cent per annum erosion rate ) , the effect will be to reduce the degree of accuracy which can realistically be anticipated . |
| 30 | The type of drills and the order in which you construct them will depend on the structure of the new language and also on your own language background which to a certain extent determines in what area you will find difficulties . |