Example sentences of "depends upon a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neuroscience , which depends upon a materialist CTP for the explanatory force of its explanations of the mind , can not , therefore , sustain any claim to be explaining or advancing our understanding of the basis of perception , or of the mind . |
| 2 | Fisheries are sustained by the plankton which depends upon a constant re-cycling of nutrients stirred up from the sea bottom . |
| 3 | She locates the origin of psychology at the historical beginnings of the novel , and using the example of the French writer , Antoine de Sale , indicates that the enactment of betrayal and loss in the early novels depends upon a fantasy of completeness . |
| 4 | The choice of stock revision subjects depends upon a number of factors , foremost among these being the importance of the different subjects to the library 's objectives . |
| 5 | it depends upon a double coincidence of wants between the trading parties , e.g. that the wheat farmer desires meat for consumption and the cattle herder needs wheat to make bread . |
| 6 | Thus , a successful plug-compatible strategy depends upon a parity of technology with IBM . |
| 7 | The extent to which genes within a family are similar to one another ( that is , the degree of homogeneity in a family ) depends upon a balance between the rate of homogenisation , the rate of mutation and the selective forces that also act on the family . |
| 8 | The success of the police depends upon a sound relationship with the public and the new code is a sensible recognition of that . |
| 9 | Successful communication depends upon a recognition and accurate use of the rules and conventions . |
| 10 | For most pensioners their income excludes any social involvement which depends upon a significant level of expenditure . |
| 11 | What happens next depends upon a great many things such as the shape of the solid , exactly where the blow was struck and so on . |
| 12 | It also depends upon a curious form of photosynthesis when it makes sugar from carbon dioxide , water and sunlight . |
| 13 | In the latter case , where entry depends upon a capacitative mechanism based on an InsP 3 -sensitive pool , the model shown in Fig. 4 transforms into the two-pool model described in detail elsewhere . |
| 14 | He goes on to say ‘ The pastness of the past , then , depends upon a historical sensibility which can hardly begin to operate without permanent written records ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 15 | These are all parts of the switch-on mechanism because the switch-on mechanism depends upon a decent organization employing decent people and treating them as we individually would wish to be treated . |
| 16 | Like the other examples of structural power , the hierarchical structure creates and depends upon a situation of power imbalance . |
| 17 | Science ultimately is self-contradictory precisely because , although it begins with a supposal about reality , it also depends upon a concrete reality ; and once scientists admit the necessarily hypothetical character of that knowledge , they cease to be scientists . |
| 18 | His view that letting children run in and out of busy airports smartly avoiding the traffic is perfectly reasonable depends upon a conception of a child which is far narrower than even the sex divide . |
| 19 | The form which is taken by international assistance in the service of process depends upon a number of , necessarily interrelated , factors . |
| 20 | He takes the idea of " culture " and disassembles it into its constituent parts ; he then goes on to argue , or assert , that it depends upon a class system , upon a variety of regionalism and upon the family . |
| 21 | Skilled reading depends upon a flexibility in the application of component subskills , and so it is with all skills . |
| 22 | Having no involvement with the GPC rules , it is a faster process , but it depends upon a large sight vocabulary . |
| 23 | This is especially easy if the passage contains no uncommon words and is composed of sentences with predictable structure , for automatic performance depends upon a simple informational input . |
| 24 | The issue of delay depends upon a comparison of like with like . |
| 25 | The speaker 's seif-image ( or rather , self-justification ) of reasonableness depends upon a contrast with what is unreasonable . |
| 26 | This depends upon a proper understanding of the decision of this House in F. Hoffmann-La Roche & Co . |
| 27 | The foundation is the duty to take care , and whether such a duty exists depends upon a relationship existing , or coming into existence , between the parties which is capable in the particular circumstances of the case of imposing a duty on the one in relation to the other . |
| 28 | It must , however , be admitted that the above argument , to some extent , depends upon a ‘ general ’ or even expansive approach to unlawful means in intimidation and in the economic torts as a whole . |
| 29 | If now " independence " is regarded as essential to basic existents , it is clear that nothing that depends upon a relation to something external to itself qualifies as a basic existent in the true sense of the word . |
| 30 | But this merely confirms yet again that the idea of numerical diversity of ontological existents is inseparable from the idea of an objective order , and consequently that a clarification of the former idea depends upon a clarification of the sources and the conditions of intelligibility of such an order . |