Example sentences of "[adv] depended on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Held , allowing the appeal , that section 69(1) of the Housing Act 1985 imposed a duty on housing authorities to exercise their discretion in deciding what constituted suitable accommodation for persons whom they had a duty to house under section 65(2) of the Act ; that any decision on suitability necessarily depended on the circumstances prevailing at the time and called for a subjective judgment by a housing authority to be made before the performance of the executive act of securing suitable accommodation for an applicant ; and that the duty imposed by section 69(1) was to be exercised by housing authorities subject only to challenge by way of proceedings for judicial review in the High Court , and not on their merits by an action in the county court ( post , pp. 213E–H , 214B–C , 218A–C ) .
2 Success or failure have thus depended on the devices by which a balance could be maintained between the preservative and the destructive effects of envy .
3 Although some sex education programmes have been introduced into schools , the nature of these has largely depended on the attitudes of the local authority , the individual head teacher , and the teachers assigned to the subject .
4 Prep schools have no secure catchment area , they have always depended on the forces of the market place for their survival .
5 The success of my Versailles experiment partly depended on the characters of its hotels .
6 These changes in social identity set the parameters of potential riots , but the actual incidence and seriousness of rioting often depended on the actions of individual officials and the presence of random catalysts which could prompt disturbances .
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