Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] depend [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The public legal obstacle having been removed , however , caution required that the final lifting of the ban depend upon the Law Society changing its rules .
2 Operational standards in the industry depend on the competence and integrity of managers .
3 But in the period covered by this book society was not quite so hierarchical as before or after ; nor did a man 's place in the sun depend on the number and dignity of his ancestors .
4 The remedies available to the consumer depend on the circumstances of the breach .
5 It would seem that some 38% of the parishes surveyed by the Commission depend upon the goodwill of such people , and there are fewer of them in rural than in urban areas .
6 The precise properties of the alloy depend on the amount of tin added .
7 Hong Kong has objected to the proposed ban because its stockpile of 670 tonnes — the tusks of up to 75,000 elephants — is worth $134m , while at least 3,000 jobs in the colony depend on the ivory carving industry .
8 In practice , the limitation of this technique , called dithering , is 16 million colours , but the capabilities of the printer depend on the software being used .
9 Similarly , the details of laws encouraging disclosure of information and requiring fairness in an exchange depend upon a more rigorous development of the communitarian political philosophy which values trust and solidarity .
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