Example sentences of "dependent upon a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nintendo Co has lost a bid to keep competitors from selling devices that modify its video games after the US Supreme Court refused to hear its arguments against an appeals court ruling in favour of Lewis Galoob Toys Inc , which offers Game Genie , which plugs into the Nintendo Entertainment System and cartridges , enabling players to use a simple code to change up to three elements of a game at a time ; the appeals court wrote that because Game Genie does n't cause any permanent change to the Nintendo cartridges — and is dependent upon a cartridge and the Nintendo system in order to operate — it does not usurp Nintendo 's copyright ; Nintendo said Game Genie violates a copyright owner 's exclusive right under the Copyright Act of 1976 to authorise or prepare derivative works . |
| 2 | And yet we know the conditions under which the sequence was written and notice how fragile it is , how much a willed order , and how dependent upon a bravura performance — and suspect that it is from these elements that the permanent value of the poetry springs . |
| 3 | France created a powerful centralized bureaucracy to override local power and ensure a direct supply of resources to sustain the armies of the Crown ; England 's monarchy was dependent upon a gentry that supplied the armed forces , administered local justice , sat in Parliament and paid the taxes upon which the royal armies depended . |
| 4 | Whether that view should be sustained will however be dependent upon a value judgment as to whose opinion on the meaning of a term should be preferred . |
| 5 | Because Messiahship was regarded as something dynastic , something in part dependent upon a bloodline , people 's attention , as we observed before , would have been focused on a relatively small network of interlinked families who could claim descent from both David and Aaron . |
| 6 | Because it always involves raw materials and techniques it is always dependent Upon a context , and is not to be thought of , in humanist vein , as an isolated expression of the essential creativity of human beings . |
| 7 | But this is itself dependent upon a number of rather more enduring features , perhaps the most important of which has been the continual growth in demand for overseas holidays despite the deep recession in the economy . |
| 8 | Further , if Lawrence 's celebration of heterosexuality is dependent upon a repression of , a disavowal of , and a displacement on to , homosexuality , such passages are animated by a homoerotic desire consciously and artistically sublimated into heterosexuality . |
| 9 | The decision whether to treat is dependent upon an exercise of his own professional judgment , subject only to the threshold requirement that , save in exceptional cases usually of emergency , he has the consent of someone who has authority to give that consent . ’ |
| 10 | The decision whether to treat is dependent upon an exercise of his own professional judgment , subject only to the threshold requirement that , save in exceptional cases usually of emergency , he has the consent of someone who has authority to give that consent . |
| 11 | Over such periods high growth rates , and rapid improvements in living standards , are dependent upon an increase in productive capacity rather than on temporary changes in the level of demand . |
| 12 | We are all familiar with the cliche ‘ Leaders are born and not made ’ , and whether this is true or not it does suggest to us that leadership is dependent upon an individual possessing certain characteristics . |
| 13 | But many older titles are still dependent upon an understanding of its conveyancing procedures . |