Example sentences of "[vb -s] upon their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the operation of discretion by juvenile liaison officers is structured by much the same variables as with the section police : ‘ It all depends upon their attitude . ’ |
| 2 | After this interview , their success or failure depends upon their winning the good opinion of existing judges whose views are canvassed informally by civil servants in the Lord Chancellor 's office . |
| 3 | The F-111s are ageing and their credibility as a deterrent depends upon their ability to penetrate increasingly sophisticated Soviet air defences . |
| 4 | Not rejecting them , not ceasing to love them , but slowly building up a new role and identity which no longer depends upon their presence for its satisfactory functioning . |
| 5 | It depends upon their conceptions of how they ought , or would be best advised in their own interests , to behave with respect to these top-management definitions of their duties end obligations , their rights and privileges , and their relationships to the material technology , to higher authority , and to each other ’ |
| 6 | Much depends upon their feeling empowered to reverse expansionist trends . |
| 7 | This is a curious feature of this kind of pressure group activity ; to some extent the power of groups depends upon their ability to forswear the more direct weapons in the pressure group armoury , to avoid mounting vociferous opinion-forming campaigns or threatening forms of direct action . |
| 8 | Whether or not they do depends upon their timing . |
| 9 | The work that will be carried out by these centres during the trial period builds upon their previous experience in this field : |
| 10 | All three of the agencies mentioned in the last paragraph have recently been the subject of central limitations to their activities or curbs upon their freedom ! |
| 11 | Dominant social elites are not made up simply of capitalists , but also include managers and professionals , whose power rests upon their capacity to exclude others from their property , whether material or intellectual . |
| 12 | The influence that local government units , for example , in the United States and Britain possess through the ‘ intergovernmental lobby ’ ( i.e. through national pressure groups of local government and local government professionals ) rests upon their ability to provide central or federal government with valuable information , to mobilise legislators to support their cause and their position and expertise as major providers of welfare state services . |