Example sentences of "depended [adv] upon [art] " in BNC.

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1 The political and moral education of the boy and apprentice knight depended less upon the teaching of the church than upon the chansons de geste sung by minstrels .
2 To them he promised to pay some £276,000 , much of it by the recklessly optimistic date of February 1338 ; from them he gained promises of military aid whose fulfilment depended largely upon the payment .
3 For this group income levels and other life chances depended largely upon the market situation of the occupational group to which the individuals belonged .
4 But , read the chapter this way or that , if there was ever a case for recognising that unions have a right to share in the management of companies , that case depended critically upon a general expectation — amounting to a near-certainty — that , rather than give primacy to their sectional interests , unions would and could act in the general interest whenever it was necessary or desirable for them to do so .
5 According to Planck 's equation [ 1 ] the quantity of energy depended directly upon the frequency .
6 It is evident that success in war , which was crucial in building large states , depended both upon the availability of economic resources , and upon an effective political mobilization and use of those resources .
7 Two centuries after the ‘ blowing ’ of the Denver sluice in 1713 , the whole security of the south level of the Fens depended solely upon the security of the restored sluice .
8 Mr. Gardiner argued that this case supported the Woolwich principle in as much as recovery depended solely upon the fact that the corporation had been placed by statute in a position of authority .
9 The naïve , almost religious basis of belief in Hitler is clearly visible in such reports , which show too , however , that people were above all listening in Hitler 's speeches for hints of an early end to the war , and that his popular standing depended heavily upon the fulfilment of such hopes .
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