Example sentences of "depend [adv] upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spoke of nothing so much as his guilt at having depended only upon his own staff for security . |
| 2 | Are you are you sort of saying in fact that the erm that the the success of those qua of the rebirth of the slate industry in has depended largely upon erm these mens skill erm as well as the investment of the quarry owners ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Which schools the police visit depends entirely upon the head teachers , and little work is done with grammar schools . |
| 5 | The stiffness of the monoblock boot depends entirely upon it , and injection-moulded plastic midsoles of a thickness suited to the size of boot are now commonplace . |
| 6 | the implementation of strategies will in themselves depend greatly upon a series of further conditioning variables such as managerial organisation , patterns of authority within the management hierarchy and , above all , upon the power of oppositional groups ( especially trade unions ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | The administrators-of the Modular Course , particularly Watson , realized early that sustainable course quality depends crucially upon relevant feedback and that course development strategies based upon relevant evidence receive readier acceptance from staff than strategies deriving their credibility from the perceived wisdom of management . |
| 10 | In conclusion , we can say that the classical system depends crucially upon : ( a ) the dependence of investment and saving on the rate of interest ; ( b ) the upward and downward flexibility of wages , prices and interest rates ; ( c ) the existence of competitive forces in the economy . |
| 11 | A state of violence or peace is always relative and depends somewhat upon the boundaries of the moral universe , but also upon the nature of the moral system at hand . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When the relay contacts open , transistor TR6 switches off and the oscillation then depends only upon the small charge remaining on capacitor C8 and the value of resistor R29 . |
| 15 | The quantity of water needed for textile processing depends greatly upon the work being done . |
| 16 | Such studies depend critically upon a knowledge of the total baseline flora in particular environments . |
| 17 | It is assumed that the purposeful provision of facilities , or the success of intervention strategies to encourage fuller use of available resources , depends critically upon an account of adolescents ' reasoning about leisure . |
| 18 | The result depends critically upon the caveat that " other things are equal " . |
| 19 | The response to a ‘ foreign ’ device in the body depends largely upon its composition , which determines the performance in the biological matrix . |
| 20 | However , whether you consider flying in the UK to be expensive or reasonable depends largely upon where you view it from — the left-hand seat , the right-hand seat , or the school-owner 's Porsche . |
| 21 | Whether young leaves remain soft , flabby and vulnerable for longer than they should depends largely upon growing conditions , and essentially upon the toughening effect of potash . |
| 22 | The precise format of a collocation dictionary depends largely upon the application . |
| 23 | Entry to the professional-managerial class depends largely upon educational qualifications , and the class helps to reproduce itself by devoting considerable effort to ensuring the educational success of its children . |
| 24 | This could be summed up by saying that responsible government depends largely upon the existence of , and free competition between , political parties . |
| 25 | However , success in recruiting and using lay clerks to best effect depends largely upon the energy and personality of the cathedral organist . |
| 26 | This depends largely upon whose perspective we adopt : purchaser , provider , or consumer . |
| 27 | In developing countries today , in spite of the relevant laws , the age at which girls first marry or enter a union depends largely upon cultural standards and the tolerance for deviation . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | The route to follow from this manual depends largely upon the reader 's special interests : |
| 30 | But as to what [ the gentleman ] observes concerning Stephen Duck , I am of Opinion , that it was not his Situation , but the Royal Favour , which gained the Country over to his Side ; and therefore I think it needless to paint the Life of a Person , who depends more upon the Curiosity of the World , than its Good nature |