Example sentences of "[conj] depend on " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , when a householder is in the market for double-glazing does he resort to Yellow Pages , take the advice of a neighbour , or depend on one of the well-known and heavily advertised names ? |
| 2 | Using functional notation , we can write : unc which states that the total number of jobs on offer is a function of , or depends on , the rate of national income and real labour costs . |
| 3 | The task is either hopeless or depends on a very bold speculation about brain differences , if one focuses only on the wink itself . |
| 4 | W. B. Coley has written that depending on wealthy patrons presented writers of the period with two difficulties : ‘ ideological inconstancy and the threat of the loss of the dependency itself . ’ |
| 5 | We would argue that depending on the concept of accountability ( moral , professional , contractual ) that the procedure seeks to satisfy , and the features of the particular context ( sector of education , local pressures etc. ) , the individual criteria will assume relatively greater or lesser importance . |
| 6 | It should be noted finally that depending on their design , incentive schemes may actually be counter-productive . |
| 7 | Answer guide : The point that needs to be illustrated here is that depending on the valuation basis used the profit changes . |
| 8 | He added , incidentally , ‘ that depending on the sex of your friend , the process can take some time ’ . |
| 9 | we actually ended up with a lot more I P R people and we 'd done all the work and they got most of the money now that 's fine that 's the way life goes sometimes , but I must admit I think that depending on how big an event you want to make it you 're maybe as well to keep it an B A I E event and open it up quietly at the end |
| 10 | Now th he was saying that , it 's being argued here that , that very seldom is it that the punishment exceeded the crime , that they 're able to assess , look at the behaviour of the people in power before the movement er gathered pace and to , to , to assess how they er they were , how sort of humane and so on and , and by saying that depending on how you , you , you did before hand , you w you now your punishment , it will , will be a administered accordingly which is an interesting concept , I 'm not sure quite how accurate these assessments could 've been , I think really when things get going it 's er really very difficult to stop them . |
| 11 | You have more of the ‘ good times ’ and less of the routine day to day jobs when your child can get bored and irritable — I think it does a child good to get to know and trust somebody different , such as a childminder or a nanny , rather than depending on his or her mother entirely for everything . |
| 12 | With such support , pupils have often sorted out ideas and ended by convincing each other , rather than depending on their teacher 's ideas . |
| 13 | I decided it was a good idea to write things down rather than depending on the tape because erm I 'm not actually going to get round to transcribing the tape quickly enough to use it as minutes . |
| 14 | If the institution … is one that depends on participation , it will reply to our frantic questions : ‘ more participation ! ’ |
| 15 | If it is one that depends on authority , it will only reply : ‘ More authority ! ’ |
| 16 | It is a stylised drama with understated dialogue that depends on recognition of key words and concepts . |
| 17 | Intent to kill may be regarded as the most obvious and indisputable form of fault element for murder , but to some extent that depends on the meaning of ‘ intent ’ . |
| 18 | With the final diagnostic criterion that depends on the gonococcus 's propensity for going round in pairs as ‘ diplococci ’ we have the microscopic finding that enables the diagnosis to be made in cases of suspected gonorrhoea — Gram-negative intracellular diplococci . |
| 19 | Basses like this Hohner offer greater versatility , which may or may not always be a good thing — I suppose that depends on how you view your playing style . |
| 20 | Or even that he is conducting a stealthy operation to ensure the BBC 's survival that depends on elaborate deception . |
| 21 | And that 's truer than ever today , when even an ordinary family saloon is powered by a highly sophisticated engine that depends on the right lubrication to perform at its best . |
| 22 | This approach does not solve the problem of continuity that depends on more than the single preceding node . |
| 23 | The Princess , uncomfortable with her Diana The Goddess image , has found a way of working that depends on a low-key approach , without cameras , excited crowds , and all the pressures the usual public engagement involves . |
| 24 | A homogeneous population will eventually grow at a steady rate r , which is given by the Euler-Lotka equation , In an asexual population , or a population of sexually reproducing haploids that vary only at a single locus , the outcome of natural selection depends simply on the long-term growth rates associated with each genotype , in the absence of density- or frequency-dependent interactions , each genotype will eventually grow exponentially at a rate that depends on its own life history , given by equation ( 1 ) . |
| 25 | The question that we are looking at is a question , not simply of discipline , but a matter that depends on our understanding , not just of the eucharist , but of the nature of the church . |
| 26 | Once the appeal is made , however , we are back with a scepticism that depends on an argument . |
| 27 | It is not easy to distinguish between high-level cognitive skills and abilities , or between interpersonal skills and personal qualities ; nor one can easily sustain the complete disjunction between curricular content and process implied by the expertise/ability distinction , or the notion of ‘ screening ’ for ability that depends on it . |
| 28 | The cases to which I have so far referred do not , in my opinion , establish any principle that depends on concepts of agency . |
| 29 | There is a story of Dorothy L. Sayers that depends on the reader noting that a French speaker uses in one careless word the wrong gender and thus , supposedly , gives himself away as a man masquerading as a woman . |
| 30 | One concerns the proportion of a manager 's income that is derived from holding shares in the company in comparison with the proportion that depends on being an employee . |