Example sentences of "[adv] [be] dependent upon " in BNC.

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1 Additionally , length and shape need not be dependent upon absolute physical size but could be coded in a way that represented information about them relative to any individual input letter string .
2 Processes designed to run outside normal working hours should therefore not be dependent upon the presence of operators for such tasks as loading tapes or attending to printers .
3 Automatic accruer is perhaps more commonly used by professional partnerships ( and has the practical advantage of not being dependent upon compliance with a prescribed timetable ) but there is considerable uncertainty as to whether such an arrangement should be regarded as a binding contract for the sale and purchase of the partnership share so as to take its value outside the scope of business property relief for the purposes of Inheritance Tax ( see Chapter 10 ) .
4 Our experience at our projects demonstrates that given the opportunity , lone parents , like any parents , want to improve the situation of their children by by working and by not being dependent upon benefits .
5 Detection of small but important changes may also be dependent upon the knowledge and sensitivity of the adult observer .
6 The line between such errors which went to jurisdiction and those within jurisdiction was a fine one , and the characterisation would often be dependent upon whether the court wished to intervene .
7 Equation ( 4 ) may be solved ( for details see Sargent , 1979 ) to yield : Here are dependent upon both and the adjustment cost parameters and denotes an expectation .
8 Clear prejudgment of a case is to be disapproved of , but the success of a piece of legislation may well be dependent upon the administrators enforcing the institution 's policies with some rigour ; indifference to the end in view , even if it were possible , might well be undesirable .
9 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 .
10 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 .
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