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

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1 The stability of feudal society had always depended upon a relationship of trust between lords and vassals .
2 It also depends upon a curious form of photosynthesis when it makes sugar from carbon dioxide , water and sunlight .
3 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 .
4 To a much lesser extent other towns also depended upon an inflow of migrants to maintain their numbers .
5 Learning to spell may well depend upon an ability to use phonological decoding strategies during reading , for the skilled use of the GPC rules will result in an awareness of the relationships between spelling and sound .
6 This factor therefore depends upon an imbalance in power which is based on an imbalance in knowledge .
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