Example sentences of "depend [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they have in common with sociological research , however , is that they depend for the accuracy of their results on choosing the right people to ask , and on having the right questions to ask them . |
| 2 | Since , as will be argued below , the risk premium depends of the value of beta , an analysis of the risk premium for commodity futures would not be a good guide for index futures . |
| 3 | The way in which programmes of modules are constructed depends of the needs of the students . |
| 4 | Appointment and subsequent promotion depend upon the possession or acquisition of appropriate qualifications ( see Ch.9 ) . |
| 5 | Petty had already intimated that he might not be able to continue his attendance at the debates further ( after 29 October ) , but before the end of that day 's proceedings he explained why ‘ we [ the Levellers ] would exclude apprentices , or servants , or those that take alms , it is because they depend upon the will of other men and should be afraid to displease [ them ] ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Qualitative changes in behaviour depend upon the concepts of behavioural variability and selective reinforcement . |
| 8 | The curve is , however , something altogether different since it is the effective , as opposed to the notional , demand for labour function : its position is determined by the effective demand for goods which will , in turn , depend upon the magnitude of . |
| 9 | But of course they each depend upon the existence of individuals who carry out the tasks necessary for the survival and perpetuation of society . |
| 10 | Although admittedly criticizing some of his own work Hewitt ( 1983 ) believes that the perspective of this dominant view could be the single greatest impediment to improvement of the quality and effectiveness of natural disasters research , because it fails to recognize how the roots and occurrence of contemporary disasters depend upon the way ‘ normal everyday life turns out to have become abnormal ’ . |
| 11 | The project investigates the development , during the school years , of communication skills which depend upon the interaction between participants during conversation . |
| 12 | Nor does their intelligibility ( irrespective of their truth or falsehood ) necessarily depend upon the intelligibility of some other statements that might be characterised as " irreducibly relational " — in the pluralistic sense of " relational " . |
| 13 | When , however , its satisfactions depend upon the infliction of pain or damage upon an unwilling partner , the situation is again that of using a person as a mere object : the sadist ( or , sometimes , the masochist ) may genuinely be said to be a social and personal menace . |
| 14 | The other subjects taken depend upon the degree course chosen . |
| 15 | Hence it seems right to argue , as does Kohn ( 1967 , pp. 99–100 ) , that nationalism and the formation of nation states depend upon the development of popular sovereignty ; that historically , in Western Europe and subsequently in other parts of the world , they emerged in opposition to the existing political arrangements of empires or feudal societies , as aspects of a broad democratic movement . |
| 16 | But if you love a writer , if you depend upon the drip-feed of his intelligence , if you want to pursue him and find him — despite edicts to the contrary — then it 's impossible to know too much . |
| 17 | It should be borne in mind that there are always problems of definition and of classification in compiling figures such as these and also that all the figures for currencies other than the US dollar have had to be converted to dollars and hence depend upon the exchange rate used . |
| 18 | Veterans who returned to low-paid jobs without occupational pension schemes now depend upon the state retirement pension . |
| 19 | These depend upon the water passing through a gravel or foam medium on which useful bacteria develop . |
| 20 | Conservation principles depend upon the idea that to explain change it is necessary to fix upon something constant . |
| 21 | The chances of promotion in Liverpool depend upon the candidate 's relation to his Super — ‘ … matters have gone from bad to worse … |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Automatic systems depend upon the hardness of the water being substantially constant , and if there is any variability they are too inflexible . |
| 24 | It is also a feature which is likely to arouse the suspicions of the sceptical onlooker since it is part and parcel of a theory whose conclusions critically depend upon the combination of the sluggish dispersal of information on the one hand and the almost instantaneous diffusion of demand on the other . |
| 25 | Racking is preferably laid out in rows of about 30–50 metres long and widths of installations depend upon the number of cranes employed . |
| 26 | Whether this makes individual product costs less ambiguous will still , however , depend upon the nature of the product flow through those cells and the joint-cost problem within cells . |
| 27 | The methods of enforcing a security interest depend upon the nature of the rights which it confers and are often in no way peculiar to company law . |
| 28 | Of such undertakings all that can be predicated is that some breaches will and others will not , give rise to an event which will deprive the party not in default of substantially the whole benefit which it was intended that he should obtain from the contract ; and the legal consequences of a breach of such an undertaking , unless provided for expressly in the contract , depend upon the nature of the event to which the breach gives rise and do not follow automatically from a prior classification of the undertaking as a " condition " or a " warranty " . |
| 29 | All these theories depend upon the recognition that organizations consist of people and that without the people the organization does not exist . |
| 30 | A further important complication for the study of implementation introduced by the involvement of professionals is that some activities depend upon the co-operation of two or more professional groups . |