Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] upon [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Armenia , shattered by the Turkish persecutions , was wholly dependent upon the protection of Russia ( whatever its regime ) , against the Turks . |
| 3 | For these reasons , it is possible to hope that the House of Lords might , if called upon to do so , reconsider the decision in a way that makes it plain that the right to freedom of speech in public is not wholly dependent upon the discretion of the policeman on the spot — important though that will undoubtedly always be — but is guided by rules and principles that recognise , inter alia the importance of freedom of speech in public , and the fact that the person interfered with was going about his otherwise lawful business . |
| 4 | A subscription would make Leapor economically dependent upon the goodwill of the wealthy . |
| 5 | During April 1856 , after a period when , it seems , no head dresser was overseeing , his son John took over at a rate of about £5 : 4s. : 0d. , which figure was apparently dependent upon the weather . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Our instinct for survival is greatly dependent upon the power of our hope . |
| 8 | The evolution of Swedish collective bargaining into a system of economy-wide agreements was greatly dependent upon the presence on both the employer and employee sides of a small number of organisations ‘ each large enough to bring crucial influence to bear on the development of bargaining issues across the whole labour market ’ ( ILO , 1974 , p. 340 ) . |
| 9 | The efficiency with which money performs its functions is greatly dependent upon the stability of its purchasing power . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The nature of excuses in crime and of equity in contract is , however , so particularistic and so dependent upon the facts of the case that it strains credulity to imagine someone seeking in advance to bring his case under such categories . |
| 12 | Maturity , at least for me , seems to lie in the discovery that happiness and circumstances do n't have all that much to do with each other ; that happiness is more a matter of choice and habit than we suppose , and less dependent upon the accident of circumstances . |
| 13 | This may be tackled for example by paying them a relatively higher fixed salary with less dependent upon the outcome . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | At this stage , liberation of the colonies was regarded as being crucially dependent upon the overthrow of existing state structures in the metropolis . |
| 16 | The emotional overtones of movement away from the subject are entirely dependent upon the manner of the retreat . |
| 17 | They can be shown to range from sites entirely dependent upon the main road frontages , through those which developed a system of irregular internal streets and lanes , to the few with some form of organized street plan . |
| 18 | Here the focus is placed not so much upon the continued presence of irrationality , for irrationality after all is simply reason 's own excluded but necessary negative other , but rather on the possibility of other logics being imbricated within reason which might serve to undo its own tendency to domination . |
| 19 | We have shown that the % PV flow in all the patients with PVO was 8.6% with a range of 1 to 30% , indicating that blood flow to the liver may become almost entirely dependant upon the hepatic artery . |
| 20 | Meanwhile detailed research in the British archives has revealed that the policy-makers in London down to 1945 ( and later ) were neither united in their interpretation of postwar Soviet intentions , nor single-mindedly intent upon the cultivation of the closest possible ties with the United States . |
| 21 | Thus Sunni power came to be founded upon Shia poverty , the first more or less conditional upon the second . |
| 22 | The wellbeing of all living things in the area is thus dependent upon the yearly restoration . |
| 23 | The whole lesson of the events of the past 20 years is that doctors can not be re-educated , so long as their training is drug-based their journals utterly dependent upon the revenue from the drug companies advertisements , and their leisure activities agreeably subsidised by the drug companies ' slush funds . |
| 24 | As with all information systems , the effectiveness is largely dependent upon the quality of data entering the system . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Our detailed knowledge of the site 's later history is largely dependent upon the excavations across the defences and at the west gate . |
| 28 | make ordinary people even more dependent upon the state for protection against ‘ lawlessness ’ and the rising tidal wave of crime , even though it is the state and its agents who are often directly and indirectly victimizing ordinary people . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Unlike younger people , who have become more dependent upon the ‘ middle ’ generation over the last century , the position of older people has moved , if anywhere , in the direction of greater independence . |