Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] upon [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The selection of certain subjects to be specified and the omission of other subjects is rather dependent upon the collection to be classified ; thus , especially with regard to the selection process , it is difficult to design a scheme which is suitable for a number of different libraries . |
| 2 | For these reasons , it is possible to hope that the House of Lords might , if called upon to do so , reconsider the decision in a way that makes it plain that the right to freedom of speech in public is not wholly dependent upon the discretion of the policeman on the spot — important though that will undoubtedly always be — but is guided by rules and principles that recognise , inter alia the importance of freedom of speech in public , and the fact that the person interfered with was going about his otherwise lawful business . |
| 3 | Armenia , shattered by the Turkish persecutions , was wholly dependent upon the protection of Russia ( whatever its regime ) , against the Turks . |
| 4 | A subscription would make Leapor economically dependent upon the goodwill of the wealthy . |
| 5 | During April 1856 , after a period when , it seems , no head dresser was overseeing , his son John took over at a rate of about £5 : 4s. : 0d. , which figure was apparently dependent upon the weather . |
| 6 | The efficiency with which money performs its functions is greatly dependent upon the stability of its purchasing power . |
| 7 | The evolution of Swedish collective bargaining into a system of economy-wide agreements was greatly dependent upon the presence on both the employer and employee sides of a small number of organisations ‘ each large enough to bring crucial influence to bear on the development of bargaining issues across the whole labour market ’ ( ILO , 1974 , p. 340 ) . |
| 8 | Our instinct for survival is greatly dependent upon the power of our hope . |
| 9 | The amount of time spent out of doors is so dependent upon the weather that children are bound to be aware of changes and some effects of sun , wind , rain and snow . |
| 10 | Maturity , at least for me , seems to lie in the discovery that happiness and circumstances do n't have all that much to do with each other ; that happiness is more a matter of choice and habit than we suppose , and less dependent upon the accident of circumstances . |
| 11 | This may be tackled for example by paying them a relatively higher fixed salary with less dependent upon the outcome . |
| 12 | At this stage , liberation of the colonies was regarded as being crucially dependent upon the overthrow of existing state structures in the metropolis . |
| 13 | The emotional overtones of movement away from the subject are entirely dependent upon the manner of the retreat . |
| 14 | Meanwhile detailed research in the British archives has revealed that the policy-makers in London down to 1945 ( and later ) were neither united in their interpretation of postwar Soviet intentions , nor single-mindedly intent upon the cultivation of the closest possible ties with the United States . |
| 15 | The whole lesson of the events of the past 20 years is that doctors can not be re-educated , so long as their training is drug-based their journals utterly dependent upon the revenue from the drug companies advertisements , and their leisure activities agreeably subsidised by the drug companies ' slush funds . |
| 16 | In general , governments have favoured the interests of capital , assuming that the well-being of the nation is largely dependent upon the prosperity of private industry . |
| 17 | As with all information systems , the effectiveness is largely dependent upon the quality of data entering the system . |
| 18 | However , plasmid sequencing is largely dependent upon the quality of plasmid DNA to be sequenced and the alkaline denaturation of plasmid DNA to produce single-strand templates of high quality . |
| 19 | make ordinary people even more dependent upon the state for protection against ‘ lawlessness ’ and the rising tidal wave of crime , even though it is the state and its agents who are often directly and indirectly victimizing ordinary people . |
| 20 | Anderson 's comparison is with the rural economy of the period , where young people were more dependent upon the family for access to their livelihood . |
| 21 | But many older titles are still dependent upon an understanding of its conveyancing procedures . |
| 22 | Nickell ( 1985 ) demonstrates that such behaviour can give rise to an error-correction specification ; it is also shown that the number of lagged values of that enter the estimated model is directly dependent upon the nature of the process generating s* |
| 23 | Thus , in 1973 , we are no wiser than we were in 1948 : the experience of twenty-five years has shed no more light upon the question , does the death penalty deter ? than was available at the beginning — except perhaps that the neutrality of the evidence , which I have explained I find so logically impressive , has been reinforced . |
| 24 | Because it always involves raw materials and techniques it is always dependent Upon a context , and is not to be thought of , in humanist vein , as an isolated expression of the essential creativity of human beings . |
| 25 | This is totally dependent upon the ability of the observer to quantify ‘ degree of rejection ’ . |
| 26 | The first problem is that Stratford is totally dependent upon the construction of the fast link to the tunnel via the east coast and Kent . |
| 27 | Instead , public authorities become the representatives of ‘ residual constituencies that … have not been wholly absorbed into the dominant groups ’ , such as the ethnic and racial minorities , farm workers , unorganised industrial workers and those who are almost totally dependent upon the welfare state ; ‘ In other words , public authority has the constituency of the powerless ’ . |
| 28 | These two people , whose success is almost totally dependent upon the effectiveness of the publicity machines which have made them into heroes , are currently ( eternally , it seems ) in just about every magazine and paper you pick up . |
| 29 | Since the immediate post-war period older people have become more reliant upon the state for their income ( figure 2.14 ) . |
| 30 | I believe , however , that it is the assessment proposals which will be more influential upon the work of schools , and more long lasting in their effects . |