Example sentences of "largely upon " in BNC.

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1 TYPOGRAPHY was once an arcane discipline , with its own system of measurement , its own language and a technology that depended largely upon pencil and paper .
2 3 ‘ It must also prepare young people for the work they will be called upon to do in the society which exists in Tanzania — a rural society where improvement will depend largely upon the efforts of the people in Agriculture and village development . ’
3 The educational system had failed him — an education system that had relied largely upon on-the-job training and part-time or distance study was inadequate and had ineptly squandered the intellect of its candidates .
4 The response to a ‘ foreign ’ device in the body depends largely upon its composition , which determines the performance in the biological matrix .
5 Though our modern technology and civilization is based largely upon our ability to harness the electron , conventional physics still has no real perception of what it is we have got our hands on .
6 However , whether you consider flying in the UK to be expensive or reasonable depends largely upon where you view it from — the left-hand seat , the right-hand seat , or the school-owner 's Porsche .
7 All in all , you will find that your chances of happiness together under the same roof will depend very largely upon your ability to respect and accept her individuality , to see that she gets her share of family affection , to make it possible for her to keep usefully occupied ( within her limitations ) in the home , and to engage as far as she can in all the outside interests she has always enjoyed .
8 The speed and efficiency with which it had been delivered was impressive , and suggested strongly that Kirov had also worked largely upon intuition .
9 It relies largely upon temporary staff ( e.g. students ) to cope with seasonal fluctuations .
10 Although the scope of workplace negotiations has been more restricted ( by law ) in Sweden than in Britain , in both countries the bargaining which occurs relies largely upon informal agreements and tacit understandings .
11 Whether young leaves remain soft , flabby and vulnerable for longer than they should depends largely upon growing conditions , and essentially upon the toughening effect of potash .
12 This time will depend largely upon what the person feels and thinks and how they behave .
13 The precise format of a collocation dictionary depends largely upon the application .
14 To them he promised to pay some £276,000 , much of it by the recklessly optimistic date of February 1338 ; from them he gained promises of military aid whose fulfilment depended largely upon the payment .
15 For this group income levels and other life chances depended largely upon the market situation of the occupational group to which the individuals belonged .
16 Entry to the professional-managerial class depends largely upon educational qualifications , and the class helps to reproduce itself by devoting considerable effort to ensuring the educational success of its children .
17 This could be summed up by saying that responsible government depends largely upon the existence of , and free competition between , political parties .
18 However , success in recruiting and using lay clerks to best effect depends largely upon the energy and personality of the cathedral organist .
19 The strength of subsequent recovery will depend largely upon the willingness truly to hand over one 's will and the outcome of one 's life to a non-individual-human God .
20 This depends largely upon whose perspective we adopt : purchaser , provider , or consumer .
21 In developing countries today , in spite of the relevant laws , the age at which girls first marry or enter a union depends largely upon cultural standards and the tolerance for deviation .
22 In the industrial type of society there is , according to Spencer , a tendency for central regulation and coercive control to decline and to be replaced by representative institutions and a more diffuse system of regulation ; but this view is then qualified in various ways , and Spencer finally concludes that representative government depends largely upon the existence of a particular type of economy the laissez-faire free-enterprise economy — which creates the conditions in which ‘ multitudinous objects are achieved by spontaneously evolved combinations of citizens governed representatively ’ .
23 Furthermore , they have concentrated their attention largely upon economic growth while neglecting other aspects of development .
24 The data derived from this project should also permit some investigation of the extra-parochial dimensions of community in a manner which is difficult , if not impossible , in studies based largely upon parochial and manorial records .
25 Although the prosecution claimed that she had stolen over $222,000,000 from the Filipino treasury , its case rested largely upon circumstantial evidence .
26 Are you are you sort of saying in fact that the erm that the the success of those qua of the rebirth of the slate industry in has depended largely upon erm these mens skill erm as well as the investment of the quarry owners ?
27 The route to follow from this manual depends largely upon the reader 's special interests :
28 There is the possibility of some influence from craftsmen working to the south , around Water Newton , who specialised in the manufacture of geometric designs , but their work was based largely upon lozenge configurations and can not have been a major source of inspiration .
29 3.3 While it may be sufficient , in practical terms , to know that the assessment of damages for pain and suffering or other non-primary loss , is , in any particular case , going to depend largely upon the amounts awarded in previous cases which are perceived to be similar , or at least , where there are no such cases , upon the generality of awards of compensation for injury of that general type , that is unsatisfactory as a conceptual basis of compensation .
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