Example sentences of "depends [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that is why we are so confident IBM — at least at the high levels where policy is made — has n't a clue about the nature of the large systems customers on which it depends for a considerable portion of its revenue and , we believe , more than half its gross profit . |
| 2 | The credibility of alternatives depends in a large measure on three factors : a new perspective on disruption and disaffection ; support for teachers ; a re-alignment of current resources . |
| 3 | The extent to which the external auditor can dispense with detailed work depends in no small part on the effectiveness of the system of internal control . |
| 4 | Within manufacture , the precise form of division depends in the first instance on the historical precursors of the capitalistic form of production in the given branch of industry — whether the ‘ manufacturer ’ ( a ) draws together previously separate trades into one workshop to produce a common product or ( b ) splits up a previously unified craft production process into its component tasks . |
| 5 | The answer to such questions depends in the first place upon what we mean by ‘ syndrome ’ . |
| 6 | The legal authority of statute depends in the final analysis , however , on its compatibility with the central core of that shared political morality . |
| 7 | ‘ How well this social organization serves the purposes of those who seek to impose it depends in the last resort upon the conceptions in the minds of the men and women they recruit for these purposes . |
| 8 | For the viability of towns depends in the last resort on a solid economic foundation . |
| 9 | How far anyone is convinced by them depends in the last resort on the themes of the last two chapters — on imagination and experience . |
| 10 | The self-imposed exile of the handsome flâneur , the Honourable Bertie Cecil , hero of Ouida 's Under Two Flags , and his secret , heroic service with the French against the Arabs in North Africa , depends in the same way on the reader 's acceptance of social and military codes of honour strained to the limit to provide a sensational story . |
| 11 | In the latter case , where entry depends upon a capacitative mechanism based on an InsP 3 -sensitive pool , the model shown in Fig. 4 transforms into the two-pool model described in detail elsewhere . |
| 12 | These are all parts of the switch-on mechanism because the switch-on mechanism depends upon a decent organization employing decent people and treating them as we individually would wish to be treated . |
| 13 | There are several areas in which the continued health of the Course depends upon a collaborative response which must necessarily be more than the aggregate of views of individual fields and departments . |
| 14 | It also depends upon a curious form of photosynthesis when it makes sugar from carbon dioxide , water and sunlight . |
| 15 | This is especially easy if the passage contains no uncommon words and is composed of sentences with predictable structure , for automatic performance depends upon a simple informational input . |
| 16 | What happens next depends upon a great many things such as the shape of the solid , exactly where the blow was struck and so on . |
| 17 | Science ultimately is self-contradictory precisely because , although it begins with a supposal about reality , it also depends upon a concrete reality ; and once scientists admit the necessarily hypothetical character of that knowledge , they cease to be scientists . |
| 18 | Fisheries are sustained by the plankton which depends upon a constant re-cycling of nutrients stirred up from the sea bottom . |
| 19 | Far from it being a departure from a voluntary approach , it is a voluntary approach : it depends upon a contractual relationship being agreed between the employer and the employee . |
| 20 | He goes on to say ‘ The pastness of the past , then , depends upon a historical sensibility which can hardly begin to operate without permanent written records ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 21 | it depends upon a double coincidence of wants between the trading parties , e.g. that the wheat farmer desires meat for consumption and the cattle herder needs wheat to make bread . |
| 22 | Consider the following example , which on the surface is simple to understand , but the precise meaning of which depends upon a careful scrutiny of key words . |
| 23 | This depends upon a proper understanding of the decision of this House in F. Hoffmann-La Roche & Co . |
| 24 | Having no involvement with the GPC rules , it is a faster process , but it depends upon a large sight vocabulary . |
| 25 | For most pensioners their income excludes any social involvement which depends upon a significant level of expenditure . |
| 26 | Urban life depends upon an invisible stratum of people who repair the city 's infrastructure while all the rest are abed . |
| 27 | At a neurological level this interplay between conscious and unconscious influences on thought almost certainly depends upon the lateral organisation of the brain , and on a particular involvement of the right hemisphere . |
| 28 | The precise formula for working out who is eligible depends upon the legal entitlement in question . |
| 29 | The time you have to carry this out naturally depends upon the actual load you put on the batteries , that is , how much gear you have hanging off it and the total power consumption of this hardware . |
| 30 | It depends upon the incongruous , perceiving what is out of place — which is usually us ! |