Example sentences of "depends on the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The problem is particularly acute with pictures taken with crossed polars , where often the identification of the minerals depends on the subtle rendition of characteristic interference colours .
2 The realization of the capacity depends on the earliest blueprints and the infant 's experiences of mutuality , giving and receiving or , sadly , its absence .
3 Even if we do find such conventions , the appeal of the conception still depends on the political ideal of protected expectations .
4 His future freedom depends on the political will to act ; the political will to act depends on public pressure ; yet there 's still a strange and deeply distasteful , unsympathetic undercurrent .
5 Much depends on the sheer credibility of special needs teachers , their perceived capacity to offer support and advice and , where necessary , direct , practical help .
6 Whether m and M move apart depends on the semi-major axis of the orbit in relation to that of the orbit of Keplerian co-rotation .
7 Prosperity for all depends on the entrepreneurial vision of a few rugged individuals .
8 The fee you pay also depends on the present condition of your teeth .
9 Much of the easy flow of speech depends on the neutral vowel .
10 It also seems inescapable that , however much conscious experience depends on the orderly biochemical working of the body , consciousness is itself outside the ordinary material concepts of matter and energy .
11 The accuracy of global field models depends on the worldwide network of magnetic observatories .
12 ‘ As William Waldegrave 's recent White Paper highlighted , the country 's future depends on the effective exploitation of science and technology .
13 Although she sets the goals for him to achieve , in fact success depends on the mutual effort of the physiotherapist and the patient .
14 This is why the mutation load ( that is , the reduction in mean fitness ) depends on the total mutation rate , U , and not on the strength of selection .
15 Such results indicate that the recognition point of a word depends on the preceding context .
16 Life-style is a manifestation of a number of behavioural factors , such as motivation , personality and culture , and depends on the economic status of the people in question .
17 We have seen how the phenomenon of interference depends on the collaborative reinforcement or cancellation of two trains of waves .
18 However , such polymorphism does not account for senescence itself , which depends on the mean life history , determined by maximization of fitness subject to what is possible .
19 The rate of chemical escape also depends on the gravitational field and also on the details of chemical reactions in the upper atmosphere .
20 Everything really depends on the final stanza :
21 Whether the extra computational effort is worthwhile depends on the final purpose of the analysis .
22 In particular , the cost of bankruptcy depends on the legal and institutional framework for handling it .
23 Once again the relationship between risk and P(A) for exemplars of a particular junction depends on the overall mean risk rating given to the junction , r(8)=0.66 p<0.05 .
24 The extent of judicial loyalty to statute enjoined by the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty therefore depends on the correct interpretation of the legal principle alone .
25 We can observe the experiences that an animal has , and what it does , and study how the latter depends on the former .
26 Their rate of discount depends on the financial status of the two companies .
27 The contrary contention is that there is a legal obligation even though it depends on the innocent party 's making the election .
28 So much depends on the prior plausibility ascribed to core religious beliefs .
29 To get at the true explanation we must concentrate on the fact that the bureaucracy 's ‘ particular functioning is not directly determined by its class membership , by the political functioning of those classes and functions from which it originates : it depends on the concrete functioning of the state apparatus , i.e. on the place of the state in the ensemble of a formation and on its complex relations with the various classes and fractions ’ .
30 The scale of the amine abnormality is proportional to the degree of hyperphenylalaninaemia and probably depends on the combined effects of competitive inhibition of tyrosine and tryptophan hydroxylases ( by phenylalanine ) and a deficiency of the amino acid substrates for these enzymes .
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