Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [adv] dependent upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The reaping of benefits from removing NTBs is crucially dependent upon fundamental reconstruction in many industries . |
| 3 | Independent research by economic consultants Pieda estimates that 71,000 jobs in the UK are currently dependent upon a viable Scotch Whisky Industry . |
| 4 | Economically , Jordan was in severe trouble before the crisis , and total adherence to a UN trade embargo on Iraq [ see p. 37639 below ] could mean the loss of a quarter of the country 's exports ; Jordan was also dependent upon Iraq for almost all of its oil supplies . |
| 5 | By the time of the 1524–25 lay subsidy over half the rural population of Cambridgeshire were already dependent upon wages to supplement earnings from their own holdings , a proportion that had not quite been reached in the country as a whole at the end of the seventeenth century . |
| 6 | Capetian successes in Poitou and Aquitaine were heavily dependent upon the volatile loyalty of the great magnates and nobles on Poitou . |
| 7 | 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 . |