Example sentences of "less [adj] upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | This may be tackled for example by paying them a relatively higher fixed salary with less dependent upon the outcome . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Indeed , if it could be shown that any content is possible consistent with the general requirements of justice , then ‘ justice ’ or ‘ natural law ’ would be stripped of their critical function whereby that which does not exhibit conformity of content with ‘ justice ’ or with ‘ natural law ’ is disqualified as law or , at least , is in some way a law less compelling upon conscience . |
| 7 | Thus Sunni power came to be founded upon Shia poverty , the first more or less conditional upon the second . |