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Example sentences of "is [adv] [adj] upon [art] " 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	Our instinct for survival is greatly dependent upon the power of our hope .
3	The efficiency with which money performs its functions is greatly dependent upon the stability of its purchasing power .
4	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 .
5	This raises interesting questions , both about the layout of any early vicus and about its relationship with the later town where the morphology is apparently dependent upon the main road frontages and the associated side-streets .
6	The wellbeing of all living things in the area is thus dependent upon the yearly restoration .
7	It has long been established that under section 51 ( 1 ) , it is not incumbent upon the prosecutor to establish that the defendant was aware that his victim was a policeman .
8	This is significant because , as we have seen , for a tippee to be liable , the tipper must , inter alia , receive some direct or indirect benefit from his breach of duty ; in the case of a temporary insider , liability is not contingent upon the person from whom he receives the information .
9	A special innovation in both mammals and birds was homoiothermy , warm-bloodedness , which allows a constantly high level of activity that is not dependent upon the temperature of the environment .
10	Our observations suggest that the cutting of circular DNA is not dependent upon the presence of a second endonuclease molecule and that subsequent cutting of the linear DNA does not occur , therefore , this event may require a second endonuclease molecule and operate by a different mechanism .
11	In a series of chapters edited by Hewitt ( 1983 ) it is demonstrated how natural hazard is not uniquely dependent upon geophysical processes , human awareness is not dependent upon the geophysical conditions , and reaction to disaster may be dependent upon ongoing social order rather than explained by conditions or behaviour to calamitous events .
12	Liability issues related to defective hardware and software are discussed and it should be noted that , in some cases , liability is not dependent upon the existence of a contractual relationship .
13	As with all information systems , the effectiveness is largely dependent upon the quality of data entering the system .
14	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 .
15	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 .
16	Our detailed knowledge of the site 's later history is largely dependent upon the excavations across the defences and at the west gate .
17	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 .
18	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*
19	This is totally dependent upon the ability of the observer to quantify ‘ degree of rejection ’ .
20	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 .
21	Whereas word recognition is dependent upon a flexible use of a number of subskills , principally rapid visual processing and the selective use of phonological decoding as circumstances demand it , word production is more dependent upon the inflexible use of specific linguistic subskills .
22	The value of this information is inherently dependent upon the quality of the inference process and that in turn depends upon the complexity of the scene , the spatial , temporal and spectral resolution of the sensors and the particular algorithms used .
23	The reduction of individual people to a quantitative mass of wage labourers , who are appraised only in terms of their contribution to capital , is clearly dependent upon the abstraction represented by money .
24	It is also contingent upon the avoidance of the rationalistic fallacy that there is only one correct view of the institution .
25	The development of a successful design-based computing system is fully dependent upon the type of data base employed and its accessibility .
26	Pluralist critics complained that panels of interviewees are not asked to specify the areas in which powerful leaders are reputed to be influential , that the reputational method is heavily dependent upon the selections of panels , and that a reputation for being powerful is not the same thing as direct evidence of success in getting your way over other people 's opposition ( Dahl , 1958 ; Polsby , 1980 ) .
27	But in fact the notion of class is not well defined , a stratificational analysis is not objective , and a sociolinguistic analysis which is heavily dependent upon the notion of prestige is part and parcel of a stratificational model .
28	However successful , human free language indexing is very dependent upon the skills of the individual indexer .
29	Our fee for this type of work would be based on time taken plus outlays and is very dependent upon the number of companies in the sample .
30	Our fee for this type of work would be based on time taken plus outlays and naturally is very dependent upon the number of companies in the sample .