Example sentences of "dependent upon a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Government Departments can , however , under the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 , be sued for the recovery of property , for breach of an ordinary commercial contract , but not for that of a contract of service , a contract dependent upon a future grant of money by parliament , nor , it seems , one in which the Crown purports to fetter its own future executive action , or for a tort . |
| 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 | The planning of each patient 's care is dependent upon a comprehensive and accurate assessment . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For even the most primitive practices are dependent upon a certain amount of theory , and even the most ‘ theoretical ’ activities can only take place within practices . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In his first independent act as king he established his authority on a sure foundation and revealed both a sound political judgement and a determination not to allow himself to be dependent upon a small group of powerful nobles . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Whereas word recognition is dependent upon a flexible use of a number of subskills , principally rapid visual processing and the selective use of phonological decoding as circumstances demand it , word production is more dependent upon the inflexible use of specific linguistic subskills . |
| 12 | Yet this radical autonomy of means and ends is itself dependent upon a circumscribed and self-confirming discourse of origins and destinies . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | To render the applicability of natural justice dependent upon a prior classification of the above type would have its utility in greater certainty and predictability : if a case fell within one category certain results would follow ; if it fell in a different category differing results would ensue . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | To put that another way , there are reasons for thinking that what an econometric model builder might believe is a good estimate of the constant structure of the economy is in fact no such thing , but rather an estimate of a relationship or group of relationships which are dependent upon a particular policy regime . |
| 17 | Independent research by economic consultants Pieda estimates that 71,000 jobs in the UK are currently dependent upon a viable Scotch Whisky Industry . |
| 18 | Guinness is dependent upon a healthy environment to provide the water , cereals and other natural ingredients essential to the production of the finest spirits and beers . |
| 19 | The Company is dependent upon a healthy environment to provide the natural ingredients vital to the production of the finest spirits and beers . |
| 20 | Some of the Midland villages with a large number of framework knitters had a more diverse occupational structure than the examples we have just discussed ; they were not as completely dependent upon a single trade . |
| 21 | The concept goes back at least as far as 1877 when Jessel MR stated in Winn v Bull [ 1877 ] 7 Ch 29 that " where you have a proposal or agreement made in writing expressed to be subject to a formal contract being prepared , it means what it says ; it is subject to and is dependent upon a formal contract being prepared . " |
| 22 | So even in the situation in which apparently you 're quite heavily dependent upon a neighbouring state , there usually is some element of choice . |
| 23 | But many older titles are still dependent upon an understanding of its conveyancing procedures . |
| 24 | If all the Christians in your school started acting like Jesus , then people would n't be dependent upon an occasional Christian assembly to teach them about God . |
| 25 | These effects came about , in part , from the creation of explicit , autonomous statements — statements dependent upon an explicit writing system , the alphabet , and an explicit form of argument , the essay . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Aspects of postmodernist tendencies might in some contexts be dependent upon an anti-trade-union posture , such as the contemporary United States ( where unionization of the workforce is now as low as 17 per cent ) . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | For the first eleven years following its introduction , ICA offered one of the most explicit examples of the assumption that married women are ( or should be ) economically inactive and financially dependent upon an earning husband — until 1986 they were excluded from the benefit on the grounds that ‘ they might be at home in any event ’ ( DHSS , 1974 , para. 60 ) . |