Example sentences of "depend on [pron] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Reform depends on their support , which is growing slowly .
2 Employee response and reaction to CAD depends on their attitude and ability , as well as age .
3 The allocation of inmates to any one of these depends on their participation in the five-stage programme which leads to probation and release .
4 The power of individuals to grasp autonomy for themselves depends on their ability to proceed in groups without the powerful outsider .
5 This depends on their structure and chemical composition
6 Given the information about birth control , whether or not young women go in search of contraception crucially depends on their motivation to do so .
7 The continued power and prosperity of multi-media entrepreneurs like Rupert Murdoch and Robert Maxwell depends on their goods being ‘ entertaining ’ , and ‘ giving the people what they want ’ / ‘ making sure people want what they 're given ’ is not as straightforward a business in this context as it is often presented .
8 Flores d'Arcais and Schreuder ( 1983 ) propose that the kind of processing carried out at the end of clauses depends on their degree of ‘ completeness ’ .
9 Depends on their will power , 'cause nothing else will do it for them .
10 The actual point at which this occurs for an individual reader depends on their disposition .
11 But the final price she charges the customer depends on their face .
12 The effect of non-compliance with such procedural requirements depends on their importance .
13 Factors include : what the children themselves want — how much weight is given to their wishes depends on their age and level of understanding ; their physical , emotional and educational needs ; the possible harmful effect of moving them away from where they 're settled ; which of you is more capable ( financially , emotionally , practically ) of meeting their needs .
14 The extent to which the rest of the patients should be investigated further depends on their age and general health , symptoms related to the anaemia , and the need for continuing iron treatment or blood transfusions , where antibody formation may cause major problems .
15 It all depends on their starting-point .
16 While we appreciate that art must go hand in hand with commerce , we wonder how many theatre goers realise just how much depends on their half-time gin and tonic and choc-bar .
17 Whether they do or not depends on their duration and the personal circumstances of the individual .
18 It depends on their characters and their beliefs . ’
19 Figure 5.7 The arrangement of fish in a school depends on their environment .
20 The problem is so difficult because a whole range of interrelated factors are involved : the rate at which heat is lost from different parts of the growing crystal , for example , depends on their curvature , but curvature also affects the melting temperature — and so on .
21 The functioning of these enzymes depends on their amino acid sequence , and that in turn depends on base sequence in DNA , which is the result of many millions of years of natural selection .
22 On the other hand , if tomorrow I confirm a speculative theory implying that the gravitational attraction between two bodies depends on their temperature , falsifying Newton 's theory in the process , I would have made a significant contribution to scientific knowledge .
23 Mario 's living , like that of many drivers , depends on their fame .
24 He 's been telling businessmen and women that Britain 's prosperity depends on their export success .
25 These studies reveal that ApT sites can be efficiently cleaved by iron-bleomycin and that the precise cleavage efficiency depends on their sequence location .
26 Water collected from the deep ocean contains gases dissolved in it when it was last at the surface and the relative proportion of these gases depends on their solubilities and their concentrations in the atmosphere .
27 ‘ It depends on whose money it is , ’ he said .
28 As equations ( 10.2 ) clearly demonstrate , the small-signal impedance of a nonlinear network depends on its operating bias .
29 The company 's ability to adapt to new opportunities and capitalize on them depends on its capacity to share information and involve everyone in the organization in a systemwide search for ways to improve , adjust , adapt , and upgrade .
30 The worth of any people depends on its capacity to do this .
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