Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] upon the " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | But by 1989 Jamaica was heavily indebted and more than ever dependent upon the bankers and financiers . |
| 33 | Moreover , it was here that peasant incomes were most often supplemented by handicraft production making them less directly dependent upon the vagaries of the harvest . |
| 34 | 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* |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | This is totally dependent upon the ability of the observer to quantify ‘ degree of rejection ’ . |
| 38 | 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 ’ . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | Since the immediate post-war period older people have become more reliant upon the state for their income ( figure 2.14 ) . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | Consequently , it was also dependent upon the willingness of Germany and Italy to strengthen both sufficiently to make Spanish participation worthwhile for the Axis . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | She had a unique gift for restoring them to health , and an intuition that led her to free each into the wild just when its confidence was regained , its body mended , and its animal fulfilment clearly dependent upon the wider world . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | Two broad groups of alternatives to , or extensions of , the denudation chronology model may be discerned , both dependent upon the influence of environment upon the researchers . |
| 47 | ‘ The meaning seems plain enough , ’ said Radulfus ; carefully he closed the Gospels , aligned the book scrupulously central upon the reliquary , and descended the steps to stand well aside . |
| 48 | Yet such cases are also explicable upon the ground that a person i–rho promises to perform , or performs , a duty imposed by law provides no consideration . |
| 49 | As such , it involves using the survey as a method which , through its design , allows for the testing of theoretically derived hypotheses : this was partly consequent upon the development of statistical methodology . |
| 50 | It is also contingent upon the avoidance of the rationalistic fallacy that there is only one correct view of the institution . |
| 51 | The mating systems of these animals are often dependent upon the dispersion patterns of the females and these in turn are related to patterns of optimum food exploitation . |
| 52 | There are numerous words for the hunting activity , mainly dependent upon the object of the hunt or the tools employed , but none corresponds to words denoting violent acts . |
| 53 | In effect , the political objective of Francoism — self-perpetuation — was now dependent upon the achievement of the economic aim of remaining solvent . |
| 54 | Delegation depends as much upon the personality of the delegator as upon the abilities of the person to whom power is given . |
| 55 | The only decision to be made is the number of copies , which no doubt rests as much upon the price of the book and the size of the university 's bookfund as upon quality factors . |
| 56 | Then he would use this information to chat knowledgeably and sympathetically to them in the lobbies or the smoking room , often concentrating as much upon the opposition as upon his own supporters . |
| 57 | This is essentially a linguistic problem , whose solution probably depends as much upon the range of your vocabulary , and your response to the stimulus of words , rather than upon your capacity to reason formally through a set of data in order to arrive at a valid solution . |
| 58 | Success in communication depends as much upon the receiver as on the sender . |
| 59 | Between speakers of different languages it depends as much upon the native speaker as on the foreign learner . |
| 60 | How far this reorientation extended was likely to depend at least as much upon the responses of Western governments and the behaviour of the other states concerned as it did upon the Soviet authorities themselves . |