Example sentences of "[be] [adv] dependent upon [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may also be heavily dependent upon voluntary efforts much of which is only loosely co-ordinated and is marginally subsidized by the public departments . |
| 2 | Europe and the Commonwealth were too dependent upon American power to risk separation . |
| 3 | It is crucially dependent upon accurate forecasting and the ability of the MAC to deliver the right student numbers in the right field combinations . |
| 4 | The reaping of benefits from removing NTBs is crucially dependent upon fundamental reconstruction in many industries . |
| 5 | In contrast , in Germany workplace relations are essentially dependent upon external regulation in the form of regional agreements . |
| 6 | Their prosperity was directly dependent upon political favour : the government itself constituted the most valuable market , established monopolies in the most lucrative goods , disposed of much of the available credit , and had the legal power to advance or halt new ventures . |
| 7 | The price of wheat is frequently used as a measure of degrees of economic hardship by historians of this period ; not every family , it is true , was totally dependent upon wheaten bread , but the steep upward price curve which was to reach an undreamt-of high of 113s. 10d. per quarter of wheat in 1800 must be a fairly accurate barometer of the plight of the poor , especially in the 1790s . |
| 8 | Second , the Commission was urging that the EEC , by which it meant itself , should have an independent source of revenue out of which it could finance its own activities : the EEC was still dependent upon direct contributions from national treasuries . |
| 9 | The government was in an ambiguous position because its policies had created a social environment almost detrimental to study , yet the success of the reform was partly dependent upon academic research and development . |
| 10 | But so great was the gulf between the righteousness of God and the depravity of man that the hope of salvation , made possible by the obedient and sacrificial death of Christ , was ultimately dependent upon divine rather than human initiatives . |