Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] upon " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having observed Thatcher 's boorish behaviour , Abse comments : ‘ Such a jealous and ruthless super-ego can only have been formed by a prohibiting mother who is brusque and prematurely insists upon early toilet training . ’ |
| 2 | The Mother of Us All shows more continuity , but again much depends upon production in what is still a largely non-narrative opera . |
| 3 | Much depends upon past practice and university politics . |
| 4 | Much depends upon the efficiency of a library 's housekeeping , particularly the accuracy of shelving . |
| 5 | So much depends upon individual circumstances that little would be gained from cataloguing here the many court cases on this subject over the past century or so . |
| 6 | Much depends upon you , the company and the job concerned . |
| 7 | Much depends upon the general level of employment . |
| 8 | Much depends upon how evolution took place . |
| 9 | Much depends upon their feeling empowered to reverse expansionist trends . |
| 10 | Much depends upon the type of work and the sort of people employed . |
| 11 | They are based on the very unsystematic police reports about local incidents , and much depends upon the criteria used to identify politically significant disturbances of the peace . |
| 12 | Much depends upon the nature of the industry and product . |
| 13 | Much depends upon the nature of the interdependencies , how critical they are to the success of SBUs and , in turn , how important those SBUs are to total group success . |
| 14 | Much depends upon the strength and cohesion of the state and of the dominant class or elites in the defeated nations , and upon the policies of the victorious powers . |
| 15 | Much depends upon the type of damage and the quality of the repairs so that , for example , where an engine is damaged , a car may be restored to newness through a new engine being installed . |
| 16 | Much depends upon the statute creating the offence . |
| 17 | This presupposes that given a low level of development of the productive forces , and a correspondingly low level of consumption by producers , a significant rate of growth not only depends upon the rate of investment but also upon an increase in the consumption of the direct producers . |
| 18 | However good one 's hearing may be the amount that is understood greatly depends upon you . |
| 19 | In short , all depends upon the precise nature of the public interest sought to be protected and this is not one of those cases — unlike , for example , Reg. v. Governor of Brixton Prison , Ex parte Osman [ 1991 ] 1 W.L.R. 281 — where the extent to which the documents have entered the public domain will critically affect the question whether immunity from further disclosure should be held to survive . |
| 20 | ‘ The game we play with the word ‘ toothache ’ entirely depends upon there being a behaviour which we call the expression of toothache . ’ |
| 21 | The utility of such reports obviously depends upon the calibre and acumen of the observer , the typicality of the materials studied and the sample interviewed . |
| 22 | The time you have to carry this out naturally depends upon the actual load you put on the batteries , that is , how much gear you have hanging off it and the total power consumption of this hardware . |
| 23 | Tenants for life will be those who are entitled to a life interest under the provisions of a settlement and even though that interest merely confers upon them an equitable interest , they have the power to sell the legal estate . |
| 24 | Sometimes , two pavements can exhibit an identity of many features — suggesting an almost identical workforce ; on other occasions , e.g. where large numbers of mosaicists were employed ( perhaps four or five craftsmen ) , the similarity of one pavement to another may not be immediately clear , and so relies upon an interpretation of technique and small details of design . |
| 25 | Natural hazard research necessarily focuses upon the interrelation of geophysical events and human activity and as such is an important feature of recent research and one that some such as Parker and Harding ( 1979 ) have proclaimed to be of central and traditional concern to geographers and their view is included in Table 6.2 . |
| 26 | But , even given these conditions , and the firm creation and institutionalisation of science , the outer world constantly presses upon it . |
| 27 | Discourse rarely depends upon speakers having complete and identical representations of the meanings of the words they use . |
| 28 | Because teaching RE effectively depends upon understanding the nature of RE and developing those skills and attitudes essential to it , there is a certain amount of theory to be mastered . |
| 29 | ( c ) Duties following cancellation Where notice has been given , in the case of hire purchase or conditional sale transactions , s72 generally places upon the debtor a legal duty to redeliver the goods subject to a lien for any part exchange goods tendered by him ( s73(5) ) . |
| 30 | The number of eggs a female lays , however , largely depends upon when she starts . |