Example sentences of "[adv] depend on whether " in BNC.
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| 1 | Planting in pots and other containers calls for simple though necessary techniques to get good results , and these vary a little depending on whether the container is clay ( or stone ) , or plastic of some kind , and on which type of compost is being used . |
| 2 | In the second and third years , students follow the pattern outlined below depending on whether they are taking Media Studies as a major , joint or minor option . |
| 3 | Much depends on whether Neil Fairbrother is fit following a hamstring strain . |
| 4 | Much depends on whether the employer sees the degree as a screening for general ability , a broad foundation of knowledge and skills for a particular occupation , or as turning out a finished product which he can employ without incurring further substantial training costs . |
| 5 | In so far as the approach to a new transaction has not been covered by the general comments made above , much depends on whether the conveyancer is acting for a seller or a buyer . |
| 6 | In selecting the best method of prophylaxis much depends on whether the farm consists primarily of permanent pasture or has pastures which are rotated with crops so that new leys or hay and silage aftermaths are available each year . |
| 7 | He exhibits a number of adjectives which differ in precisely the way required while maintaining the same or essentially the same lexical value ( we modify his examples slightly where it is possible to do so without damage to his case , so as to make the distinction sharper ) : ( 19 ) visible stars vs stars visible the only navigable rivers vs the only rivers navigable a handy tool vs are your tools handy ? guilty people vs people guilty As it happens , the examples which Bolinger uses employ words which can make the distinction a rather subtle one , with perhaps the exception of visible stars ( a group recognized astronomically ) beside stars visible ; but it is quite easy to produce further instances which seem to confirm his view : ( 20 ) a complaining visitor vs a visitor complaining the eligible bachelor vs the bachelor eligible In other cases , the divergence of lexical value between the two positions may be greater but still with the characteristic value for the former , and the occasion value for the latter : ( 21 ) the responsible man vs the man responsible a sorry sight vs the girl is sorry He notes that the acceptability of an adjective in pre-adjunct position may apparently depend on whether or not it can be regarded as indicating a relatively enduring characteristic of what is expressed by the noun , as in : ( 22 ) the faint girl vs the girl is faint an asleep man vs a man asleep This possibility of course depends not only on the adjective itself but also on the nature of the noun being qualified , so that " when one scratches one 's head the result is not *a scratched head but when one scores a glass surface the result is a scratched surface " . |
| 8 | In the first chapter we looked at notions of timely and untimely grief and we saw that although the reaction to loss is the same whether or not we are expecting someone to die , the way it will be expressed does very much depend on whether it is something we might expect . |
| 9 | With a cynical little smirk , Hogan said , ‘ That rather depends on whether or not you 've killed her . |
| 10 | Where exactly it began rather depends on whether or not you decide to categorise certain books as police procedurals or as perhaps crime novels . |
| 11 | The epidemiology of H. contortus is best considered separately depending on whether it occurs in tropical and subtropical or in temperate areas . |
| 12 | For Kuhn , whether a field qualifies as a science or not depends on whether or not it conforms to the account of science offered in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions . |
| 13 | He 's a good man in a crisis having experienced just about all his football at the rough end of the stick and he 'll be prepared to battle — it just depends on whether the directors battle with him . |
| 14 | Hilda must have known all about it , so it just depends on whether she thought she could reform him , or whether she were content to take him as he was . ’ |
| 15 | wa was straight from Picasse but Picasse do n't necessarily send out just depends on whether the poly 's send out to them as well . |
| 16 | The future of these private establishments largely depends on whether , after April 1993 , the local authority will agree to continue funding such residents ; a decision which will be influenced , hopefully , by whether the quality of care provided in these establishments is acceptable to local authorities , and whether standards can be maintained and improved by local authority monitoring procedures . |
| 17 | Control subjects that experienced training in which the immediate consequences of the light did not differ in their reinforcing value from one trial to another ( for these the interval between the offset of the light and food delivery was fixed and thus did not depend on whether it contained a tone or a clicker ) showed a steady decline in the frequency of the OR . |
| 18 | A second group of statements has the distinction that their truth-values do not depend on whether there does exist a thing called for by a contained referring expression . |
| 19 | Its truth-value does not depend on whether there actually occurred the happy event referred to by the second referring expression . |
| 20 | As most of the considerations discussed below do not depend on whether indexing is full or partial , the reader should assume from now on that partial indexing is being discussed . |
| 21 | One councillor who attended the meeting , however , believed much still depended on whether BS might apply for a Department of Transport grant to enable the rail service to continue . |
| 22 | Manufacturers of ‘ specials ’ custom-build their chips to suit particular applications , in the same way as , for instance , a boat manufacturer might tailor his products differently depending on whether the customer plans an ocean voyage or an afternoon on the Norfolk Broads . |
| 23 | It permits right context effects of the type reported by Warren & Sherman ( 1974 ) where listeners tended to hear differently depending on whether the following phrase was : — eel of the shoe , of the orange , of the car , etc . |
| 24 | They may feel differently depending on whether they are viewing the service before using it , encountering it initially , actually in receipt of the service , and finally in retrospect . |
| 25 | It also depends on whether or not I can tell you what you want to know . |
| 26 | The mapping of relationships also depends on whether the relationships are binary or n-ary and on the cardinality of the relationship . |
| 27 | Whether that is a good or bad thing probably depends on whether you are paying or receiving . |
| 28 | Approval will partly depend on whether or not the UK Department of Trade & Industry opens up the market for international simple resale to the US . |
| 29 | Both county councils and the Secretary of State are somewhat equivocal on this point , the answer really depending on whether they ‘ like ’ the proposed development . |
| 30 | The position now depends on whether the period of exclusion which has been ordered is permanent , indefinite or fixed term . |