Example sentences of "depends [prep] the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The initial impact of monetary policy depends upon the behaviour of individuals and institutions in financial markets , including the foreign exchange market . |
| 2 | A colligative property is one which depends upon the number of particles of the solute but not on the nature of the solute . |
| 3 | However , predicting what proportion of the total population the older age groups ( or any other subset of the population ) will represent is more problematic as it depends upon the number of children future generations produce . |
| 4 | Culture defines status , and fro women and men in many societies achievement or retention of status depends upon the number of children that one has ; for the women , having many children may be the only means of acquiring status within the family and the community . |
| 5 | How much this would increase the size of the tree structure and the speed of look-up , is not clear because it depends upon the number of words stored . |
| 6 | Prices start at from £2,750 per module except for the payroll — which depends upon the number of employees — though the minimum charge is £3,000 for 100 employees . |
| 7 | It is a social capacity which depends upon the acknowledgement of others . |
| 8 | Each cell depends on the ability of others to differentiate and so specialize . |
| 9 | But the whole structure of NVQs depends on the ability of assessors to undertake the assessment procedures against the required criteria . |
| 10 | Much depends on the determination of workers to defend jobs and conditions , and factors like this may alter considerably over time . |
| 11 | As Lindblom observes , a ‘ least-cost location for a new plant , for example , depends on the range of products that might be produced , the flexibility built into the plant , and the period over which costs and revenues are estimated ’ . |
| 12 | Their effectiveness as a resource depends on the range of purposes to which the learner discovers they may be put from his or her experience of interaction with other speakers . |
| 13 | He lacks social adroitness , or any kind of personal magnetism , as he struggles to hold down a charmless job which depends on the goodwill of others . |
| 14 | How far debt finance reduces the capital stock inherited by future generations depends on the choice of taxes ; and the use of terms such as the ‘ burden of the debt ’ obscures the fact that debt policy is only one of a package of instruments for attaining a desirable intertemporal distribution . |
| 15 | However good the format , the success of the courses depends on the willingness of members of the profession to act as interested and supportive tutors . |
| 16 | How well public sector employees perform in providing the goods and services their customers and clients want depends on the system of incentives and sanctions within which they operate . |
| 17 | It said that the formation of associations , movements or parties " depends on the will of citizens " , and that the LCY would " campaign for its own political legitimacy " and would seek to retain power at free elections which would be " guaranteed by the Constitution " . |
| 18 | This pattern of growth suggests quite clearly , and quite reasonably , that the growth of unit trusts depends on the performance of stock-markets and on the public 's perception of the benefits of equity investment . |
| 19 | Whether the dams are built or not now depends on the success of environmentalists in pressurizing the World Bank into withdrawing credit for the projects . |
| 20 | The method is in general applicable to any situation in which the pay-offs to strategies are ‘ frequency-dependent ’ ; in this model , for instance , the pay-off to hawk depends on the frequency of hawks in the population . |
| 21 | What you do depends on the type of weeds concerned , the time of the year , the weather and where they grow . |
| 22 | Both assume that the nature of government , indeed the existence of a state at all , depends on the type of resources available to a regime , and the ways in which these resources may be transferred . |
| 23 | This code depends on the type of lenses you need and also decides the maximum amount of help the voucher can give you . |
| 24 | The form of animal husbandry adopted depends on the type of facilities available and the nature of the experiments . |
| 25 | A company 's competitive position no longer ( solely ) depends on its internal capabilities ; it also depends on the type of relationships it has been able to establish with other firms and the scope of those relationships . |
| 26 | This device depends on the existence of institutions which can actually adjudicate on and , one hopes , resolve disputes in a relatively impartial way on the basis of impartial rules whose decisions are binding on the parties in question . |
| 27 | Whereas the diagnosis of early infectious syphilis can be made with a good degree of accuracy by identifying the treponeme with darkground examination of serum from a chancre or from the skin lesions of secondary infection , in latent or late syphilis , be it acquired or congenital , the diagnosis depends on the finding of antibodies to the infection in the blood . |
| 28 | The strategy 's objective is to achieve a patient record that will be accessible wherever a patient is treated and to build on that record an entire clinical information system , so its success depends on the support of doctors . |
| 29 | Since a wide variety of people of different personalities are capable of doing the same job , the efficiency of this organisation depends on the structuring of jobs and the design of communications and formal relationships , rather than on individual personalities . |
| 30 | Thus it depends on the order of children in the FOR loop : |