Example sentences of "[adv] depend [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 The suggestion put forward by Hall and Schachtman was that the dishabituation observed in their experiment was not the consequence of a failure of input and representation to match , but rather depended on a change in level of arousal .
2 A piquant feature of Dorchester 's municipal charity was that much depended on a town brewhouse .
3 The nature of this will vary greatly depending on a rose 's ancestry , while its appreciation is a very personal matter .
4 Effective rule of any kingdom necessarily depends on an understanding of its particular characteristics .
5 As with malt whisky , much depends on a distiller 's source of water as well as how and where he ages his spirit .
6 These royal ordnance workers know that much depends on an ammunition order currently frozen by the treasury .
7 Also , she failed to be swayed by arguments that Britain 's future industrial prowess crucially depends on a strong base in computing research .
8 How quickly ‘ the ’ issues will be raised obviously depends on a number of factors — the difficulty of the issue , the ability of the counsellees to express their ideas , and the quality of the counselling relationship .
9 We have , of course , stressed to our friends in the Baltic states that their membership of the CSCE — Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe — process and their aspirations to join the Council of Europe will naturally depend to a great extent upon their ability to meet international standards in such matters .
10 The success of the kinematics approach thus depends on an ability to define the geometric arrangement of the physical system at desired positions in space .
11 Although they are employed to a much greater extent than the rest of the percussion , it must be realized that their effectiveness largely depends on a sparing use of them .
12 The stability of feudal society had always depended upon a relationship of trust between lords and vassals .
13 Scepticism in its most interesting form always depends on an argument ; the better the argument , the stronger the scepticism it generates .
14 The conclusion is that with which we started ; scepticism in its most interesting form always depends on an argument .
15 Even so , PT Timah took many years to develop its own technical expertise and still depends to an important degree on technical assistance from multinationals , including Billiton .
16 Physicians should be aware that the diagnosis of CO poisoning still depends on a high degree of clinical suspicion and direct measurement of CO .
17 Normal response to the test , however , still depends on an intact nerve supply .
18 ‘ I 'd rather depend on a surfer in an emergency than anyone else .
19 Friedman argues that the demand for money also depends on a number of factors which are likely to influence wealth holders ' tastes and preferences for money .
20 It also depends upon a curious form of photosynthesis when it makes sugar from carbon dioxide , water and sunlight .
21 Science ultimately is self-contradictory precisely because , although it begins with a supposal about reality , it also depends upon a concrete reality ; and once scientists admit the necessarily hypothetical character of that knowledge , they cease to be scientists .
22 In the second place , the maximum amplitude of velocity fluctuations reached at the end of the unstable region will be sensitive to the level of small disturbances present at its start ; the appearance of local regions of turbulence probably depends on a certain amplitude being reached .
23 They also depended for a large part of their work on clawing money out of the social security system and on getting alongside other centrally funded bodies such as housing associations .
24 But rule also depended on a degree of common purpose between kings and at least a proportion of the secular magnates .
25 Foxes became much more wide-ranging in their search for food , since they also depended to a large extent upon rabbits .
26 The king also depended to a considerable degree upon individuals who , like the leaders of the companies of the previous century , served in the royal army : Poton de Xaintrailles was for a period a ‘ veritable routier ’ , pillaging in different parts of France before accepting office under Charles VII ; Antoine de Chabannes , a captain of routiers , at one time had command of 1,000 horsemen before finding employment under the crown .
27 To a much lesser extent other towns also depended upon an inflow of migrants to maintain their numbers .
28 How far depended on a firm 's skills at trading for its own account .
29 But they are ranged on a continuum and a satisfactory account really depends on a theory of language which encompasses both grammar and lexis within the same descriptive scheme and makes explicit the relationship between them .
30 The prospects for a rally in the shares now depends on a bid for the whole MTM operation , giving the shares some added value and stopping the downward trend .
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