Example sentences of "[adv] dependent on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( During the third century they were celebrating Easter and Pentecost , which were inherited and then modified from Judaism and so dependent on a lunar year . |
| 2 | Not only then is subcontracting widely practised but the small firms are so dependent on a limited range of buyers that they have little alternative but to accommodate to tight kanban schedules . |
| 3 | The growth in the use of microcomputers in organizations means that people have become much less dependent on a central computer , which need only be used for large scale operations . |
| 4 | Lynne McBean , head of general education at the college , said : ‘ With this qualification , a dock or port worker , for example , is less dependent on a single employer , ’ she said . |
| 5 | Such an economy was highly dependent on a vast mass of skilled labour and a greater horde of the lesser skilled . |
| 6 | Success in computation relating to time intervals is highly dependent on a number of factors and there fore is variable . |
| 7 | Any assessment of Hickey 's career and of his personality is almost entirely dependent on a single source provided by the subject himself , the 742 pages of memoirs which Hickey wrote shortly after his return to Britain . |
| 8 | The significance of affection is thus dependent on a pre-existing degree of acceptance of conformity ; there must be a shortage of ‘ parental Fagins ’ as Matza ( 1964 ) put it . |
| 9 | The result is that people at work , whether as individuals or as work teams , are no longer dependent on a centralised data processing department based on a mainframe or mini-computer . |
| 10 | And there must be a serious question mark against the massive powers acquired by the holder of the office of Secretary of State , which may be thought less than healthy in a democracy normally dependent on a system of checks and balances . |
| 11 | The achievement of reading skills requires at least minimal vision , and the accomplishment of writing skills is further dependent on an adequately functioning preferred hand . |
| 12 | Depressed and bewildered because it had inexplicably impaired his ability to think and concentrate , he soon guessed that his paralysis and clumsiness would make him always dependent on a wheelchair . |
| 13 | This is partly because aspects of oneself may be disavowed , sometimes unconsciously , and partly because the ‘ meaning ’ of the deliverances of introspection is always dependent on an interpretation . |
| 14 | The wife and mother who goes out of the home to earn a wage , to escape being totally dependent on a man , being isolated in the home , and the penny-pinching that trying to make one wage feed the family involves , takes a second job . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's probably dependent on a whole host of things , ’ he says , quite unconvincingly for a change . |
| 16 | All of these actors become as dependent on a high military expenditure as the Pentagon civil service and the four armed services ( army , navy , air force and marines ) . |
| 17 | The ties of dependence that originated during the period of slavery became even more extensive in the period of the formal colonization of Africa , and after dependence too , creating economies substantially dependent on a limited range of cash crops and raw materials required by the metropolitan economies which retained control over major sectors of production , pricing and the flow of profits ( Brett , 1973 ; Leys , 1975 ; Howard , 1978 ; Rodney , 1972 ; Davidson , 1974 ) . |
| 18 | In 1866 Reichenberg ( Liberec ) , the Bohemian textile centre , still produced half its total output on the looms of artisan weavers , admittedly for the most part now dependent on a few large factories . |
| 19 | Any further work is now dependent on a new £4 million appeal , which was launched at the end of last year . |
| 20 | From a national movement designed to revolutionize the political structure of the nation , the BUF had degenerated into an organization which became increasingly dependent on a localized campaign playing on anti-immigrant racial populist themes , which was to be the main pattern of British fascism from then onwards . |
| 21 | Why , after all , should there not be a mode of production which is equally dependent on a variety of kinds of legitimation ? |
| 22 | One can be emotionally dependent on a parent , calling home daily , looking to them for decisions or allowing parents ’ wishes and desires to come before one 's partner . |
| 23 | Few want to remain financially dependent on a former partner unless absolutely necessary , and may see no reason why he should not have his share of the proceeds from the house sale . |
| 24 | The success of the E.H.E. is therefore dependent on a number of factors : |
| 25 | It requires riverside sites vacated by traditional shipbuilding and port functions and is absolutely dependent on a work force which got its initial training in ship-building and -repair . |
| 26 | They are made very dependent on a variety of specialists for information and advice … and in fact so are the parents . |
| 27 | As spouses and relatives and friends of their age move away , or die , old people look more and more to their few surviving relatives and neighbours for affection , friendship and reassurance and can easily become very dependent on a small number of people for social contact . |