Example sentences of "[adv] dependent upon " 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 | But they are still highly circumscribed in their authority , and wholly dependent upon their salaried employment . |
| 4 | It seemed the only salvation for a country with a burgeoning population and limited arable land , wholly dependent upon irrigation . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A subscription would make Leapor economically dependent upon the goodwill of the wealthy . |
| 7 | For example , if you are economically dependent upon your partner , or afraid of being left for someone else , then safer sex will be more difficult for you to raise . |
| 8 | In 1985 , 21,838 women received reduced rates of benefits , of whom an estimated 78 per cent would have been unlikely to have had any independent entitlement to any other benefit , thus rendering them economically dependent upon their partners ( unpublished statistics , DHSS , 1986 ) . |
| 9 | Tax burdens were arbitrary and unpredictable and the judicial verdicts of royal governors were blatantly dependent upon bribery . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Our instinct for survival is greatly dependent upon the power of our hope . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | The efficiency with which money performs its functions is greatly dependent upon the stability of its purchasing power . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A good spiritual director would have been able to interpret this experience and have led him , step by step , past these dangerous swings of mood to a disciplined equanimity which was rooted in a deeper part of the self and which was not so dependent upon exterior circumstance . |
| 17 | Artists and journalists are not so dependent upon their colleagues ' approval but can appeal directly to the laity . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | As the election approached , voters ' awareness of opinion polls became less dependent upon their interest in politics and on whether they read the highbrow press rather than the tabloids . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He argued that the success of US multinationals had become much less dependent upon US hegemony and challenged Gilpin 's earlier claims ( 1971 : p. 54 ) that ‘ a diminution of the pax Americana and the rise of powers hostile to the global activities of multinational corporations would bring their reign over international economic relations to an end ’ . |
| 22 | This may be tackled for example by paying them a relatively higher fixed salary with less dependent upon the outcome . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 24 | The discipline within anthropology which maintained the closest relation to material culture studies was archaeology , which has always been highly dependent upon such studies , since its task of resurrecting ancient societies is based in large measure on the interpretation of the material remains excavated from those societies . |
| 25 | According to Martyn Fear , drill bit specialist from the Drilling Technology group in Aberdeen , the duration of the rotating time required to drill the well , the extremely rough drilling conditions , the time spent tripping and replacing worn bits , and the costs of bit purchase are all highly dependent upon drill bit efficiency . |
| 26 | This power is not necessarily dependent upon their personal qualities and nor will it depend upon their control of information or their expertise . |
| 27 | The study of Magritte 's art , long dependent upon Suzi Gablik 's short monograph completed in 1970 , has received a sharp boost with the publication of three new books , each of which serves a slightly different purpose but only together provide a comprehensive evaluation of the artist as he has been researched by David Sylvester and Sarah Whitfield . |
| 28 | Furthermore , the data derived from this study about caring is obviously dependent upon respondents ' perception of their status as either carers or non-carers . |
| 29 | When one begins to list the dozens of schema-based inferences which even such a brief passage as this evokes , it soon becomes clear that there is much more to comprehension than vocabulary and sentence structure — comprehension is crucially dependent upon schemata . |
| 30 | At this stage , liberation of the colonies was regarded as being crucially dependent upon the overthrow of existing state structures in the metropolis . |