Example sentences of "[be] [adv] dependent upon the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are less dependent upon the North Sea than we were five years ago and have , in other areas , more onshore than offshore interests because development costs — and in many cases drilling and operating costs — are lower on each barrel found and produced . ’ |
| 2 | The emotional overtones of movement away from the subject are entirely dependent upon the manner of the retreat . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | All potential rival elites are equally dependent upon the capitalists , who are the only external elite able to exercise a general veto power over government policy , backed by decisive resources . |
| 5 | At this stage , liberation of the colonies was regarded as being crucially dependent upon the overthrow of existing state structures in the metropolis . |
| 6 | Anderson 's comparison is with the rural economy of the period , where young people were more dependent upon the family for access to their livelihood . |
| 7 | Capetian successes in Poitou and Aquitaine were heavily dependent upon the volatile loyalty of the great magnates and nobles on Poitou . |
| 8 | Such advances , however , are ultimately dependent upon the quality of the available evidence and their main conclusions , summarized here , may require some degree of modification as more material comes to light . |
| 9 | Because they are heavily dependent upon the quality of their leadership special music groups tend to come and go . |
| 10 | The selection of certain subjects to be specified and the omission of other subjects is rather dependent upon the collection to be classified ; thus , especially with regard to the selection process , it is difficult to design a scheme which is suitable for a number of different libraries . |
| 11 | Our instinct for survival is greatly dependent upon the power of our hope . |
| 12 | The efficiency with which money performs its functions is greatly dependent upon the stability of its purchasing power . |
| 13 | The amount of time spent out of doors is so dependent upon the weather that children are bound to be aware of changes and some effects of sun , wind , rain and snow . |
| 14 | This raises interesting questions , both about the layout of any early vicus and about its relationship with the later town where the morphology is apparently dependent upon the main road frontages and the associated side-streets . |
| 15 | The wellbeing of all living things in the area is thus dependent upon the yearly restoration . |
| 16 | As with all information systems , the effectiveness is largely dependent upon the quality of data entering the system . |
| 17 | In general , governments have favoured the interests of capital , assuming that the well-being of the nation is largely dependent upon the prosperity of private industry . |
| 18 | However , plasmid sequencing is largely dependent upon the quality of plasmid DNA to be sequenced and the alkaline denaturation of plasmid DNA to produce single-strand templates of high quality . |
| 19 | Our detailed knowledge of the site 's later history is largely dependent upon the excavations across the defences and at the west gate . |
| 20 | 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* |
| 21 | This is totally dependent upon the ability of the observer to quantify ‘ degree of rejection ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The development of a successful design-based computing system is fully dependent upon the type of data base employed and its accessibility . |
| 27 | Pluralist critics complained that panels of interviewees are not asked to specify the areas in which powerful leaders are reputed to be influential , that the reputational method is heavily dependent upon the selections of panels , and that a reputation for being powerful is not the same thing as direct evidence of success in getting your way over other people 's opposition ( Dahl , 1958 ; Polsby , 1980 ) . |
| 28 | But in fact the notion of class is not well defined , a stratificational analysis is not objective , and a sociolinguistic analysis which is heavily dependent upon the notion of prestige is part and parcel of a stratificational model . |
| 29 | However successful , human free language indexing is very dependent upon the skills of the individual indexer . |
| 30 | Our fee for this type of work would be based on time taken plus outlays and is very dependent upon the number of companies in the sample . |