Example sentences of "depend [prep] the [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 But of course they each depend upon the existence of individuals who carry out the tasks necessary for the survival and perpetuation of society .
2 The project investigates the development , during the school years , of communication skills which depend upon the interaction between participants during conversation .
3 Racking is preferably laid out in rows of about 30–50 metres long and widths of installations depend upon the number of cranes employed .
4 These benefits depend upon the difference between returns under regulation and those without it , hence , as Posner ( 1974 ) suggests , on the gains from cartelization and the ease of forming cartels .
5 Both of these depend on the capacity of organisms to integrate previously separated functions through the imposition of a superordinate system relating its subordinate parts ; and this requires the open transfer of information between those parts .
6 Consumers ' decisions to buy depend on the decisions of entrepreneur-producers to sell .
7 Decisions by resource owners to sell depend on the decisions of entrepreneur-producers to buy — and vice versa .
8 Robin Latimer , community care officer at SCODA , rejects any notion that drugs charities are scare-mongering : ‘ It is worrying because residential services depend on the flow of clients . ’
9 The waters around Shetland depend on the upwelling of currents from the deep Atlantic ( the North Atlantic Drift , a tribute of the Gulf Stream ) which brings a regular flow of nutrients to the fish spawning and feeding areas .
10 Just as groups depend on the allocation of roles ( and power ) , so they depend also on the consequences of power — conflict/cooperation , trust/ mistrust , etc .
11 The Herdwick farmers depend on the sales of animals and wool for their livelihood .
12 Between 30 and 50 per cent of women with gonorrhoea have coincidental trichomoniasis and up to 40 per cent of women with TV have gonorrhoea — the figures vary between different centres and depend on the group of women being examined .
13 ( 156 ) … might try providing standard vacation time off but make the vacation pay depend on the number of hours worked .
14 The costs per capita of providing a particular local public good ( e.g. street lighting , fire service , education ) depend on the number of residents who share the total cost .
15 The optimum ramp gradient and stepping rate limit depend on the number of steps to be executed ( see following example ) and , in principle , the function generator characteristics could be made to depend on the target position information .
16 However , the proportions in which elements are produced in the big bang depend on the number of types of neutrino ( the neutrinos play a role in moving energy around the fireball ) .
17 For the first time , money purchase schemes have been allowed to contract out ( i.e. pension schemes that depend on the outcome of investments rather than a formula based on contributions ) .
18 The programmed is likely to displace some 15,000 Auyu tribal people , most of whom depend on the forest as hunter-gatherers or rubber tappers .
19 Many of the alternatives depend on the use of buses in , for example , off-peak excursion services ( say , twice monthly ) , which can be run quite cheaply to large towns in view of marginal pricing and maximizing use of vehicles .
20 The enthalpy changes also depend on the amount of substances involved in the process .
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