Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [adv] upon the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , success in recruiting and using lay clerks to best effect depends largely upon the energy and personality of the cathedral organist . |
| 2 | The result depends critically upon the caveat that " other things are equal " . |
| 3 | The partnership depends heavily upon the generosity of the charity , but it 's seen as the way forward in care for the elderly . |
| 4 | The precise format of a collocation dictionary depends largely upon the application . |
| 5 | All these reasons serve to explain why this study concentrates mainly upon the attitudes to death that prevailed in the middle-class , whose irresistible rise was so prominent a feature of the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | The rest of this chapter relies extensively upon the research the writer undertook in 1986 and 87 . |
| 7 | On the side of man , however , though his very existence depends solely upon the creative love of God , there is a surd element in the equation . |
| 8 | The quality — or modality — of the experience depends less upon the quality of energy reaching the nervous system than upon which parts of the sensory system are activated : stimulation of the retinal receptors causes an experience of light ; stimulation of the receptors in the inner ear gives rise to the experience of sound ; and so on . |
| 9 | The hardness of water depends principally upon the concentration of calcium and magnesium . |
| 10 | The ecumenical movement has reversed three centuries of division which began with the failure of the Savoy Conference in 1661 and the imposition of the Act of Uniformity , Today , Holy Communion is celebrated more frequently and with a set liturgy , often in an ‘ Anglican ’ way ; set prayers are common and sometimes take a responsory form ; the increasing use of a lectionary means that the choice of readings depends less upon the whim of the preacher and more upon an ordered scheme . |
| 11 | The level of premium paid to insure against an event depends obviously upon the likelihood or risk of the event occurring at all and the level of compensation or benefit to be paid when it does . |
| 12 | The emphasis falls instead upon the resurrection . |
| 13 | The quantity of water needed for textile processing depends greatly upon the work being done . |
| 14 | This could be summed up by saying that responsible government depends largely upon the existence of , and free competition between , political parties . |
| 15 | In the industrial type of society there is , according to Spencer , a tendency for central regulation and coercive control to decline and to be replaced by representative institutions and a more diffuse system of regulation ; but this view is then qualified in various ways , and Spencer finally concludes that representative government depends largely upon the existence of a particular type of economy the laissez-faire free-enterprise economy — which creates the conditions in which ‘ multitudinous objects are achieved by spontaneously evolved combinations of citizens governed representatively ’ . |
| 16 | The choice of members of the government rests significantly upon the preferences of the prime minister . |
| 17 | As was discussed in Chapter 1 the notion of prevalence depends crucially upon the unambiguous classification of the study population into cases ( i.e. those with dementia ) and non-cases ( i.e. those without dementia ) . |
| 18 | It is obviously very prone to bias and reactivity effects ; it can easily be subverted by stacking samples ; and the credibility of the report depends completely upon the creditability of the practitioner . |
| 19 | It is no longer a one-to-one relationship in which the counsellor concentrates exclusively upon the feelings and needs of a single person , for other people must now be considered . |
| 20 | But this analysis concentrates unduly upon the intellectual content of nationalism , while neglecting its social sources , and it attributes to intellectuals an exaggerated importance as leaders of nationalist movements . |
| 21 | In a deliberately egalitarian policy it becomes actually less manageable , because envy fastens most upon the smallest , not the largest , inequalities and upon those who are nearest to ourselves , not furthest away . |
| 22 | The success of this venture depends heavily upon the quantity and quality of the research which can be assembled and examined . |
| 23 | The organization of presbyterianism rests strongly upon the local community , with its division of authority between minister and elders . |
| 24 | Then we can show that the relationship between the quantity of base money in existence and the outstanding money supply depends numerically upon the magnitude of the ratios and . |
| 25 | Assuming for the moment that the efficiency of production depends solely upon the exertions of the workers , we saw that ‘ the price required to call forth the exertion necessary for producing any given amount of a commodity may be called the supply price for that amount , with reference of course to a given unit of time ’ . |
| 26 | The reasonableness of such clauses depends mainly upon the questions raised by s 11(4) of the UCTA " is the amount a reasonable one having regard to the financial resources of the party seeking its protection , and the extent to which he could insure against the relevant liabilities ? |
| 27 | Similarly , in the rubbery state the shear modulus of all polymers depends primarily upon the density of cross-links . |
| 28 | The route to follow from this manual depends largely upon the reader 's special interests : |
| 29 | Which schools the police visit depends entirely upon the head teachers , and little work is done with grammar schools . |
| 30 | The sequence of events depends mainly upon the original mass . |