Example sentences of "dependent on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The firm 's pattern of growth , as in the case of Heidrick and Struggles , was very dependent on individual personalities , and also suffered from the fact that the most successful headhunters are usually the worst managers .
2 This labour movement link-up provides a key safeguard against the rise of alternative progressive parties ( such as the Green movements in Europe ) which are dependent on individual contributors .
3 Piaget named this approach ‘ moral realism ’ and noted the shift during these 3 stages from heteronomous morality — dependent on external rules , to autonomous morality — dependent on the individuals own principles of justice .
4 We are also all dependent on external systems for the maintenance of our dwellings and essential equipment .
5 Nonetheless , a high proportion of those who live beyond 75 will suffer a degree of frailty , ill-health or disability which makes them dependent on external sources of support for their comfort and well-being .
6 An external money market in a currency is not dependent on external deficits .
7 The next group of suggestions was less dependent on extra funds .
8 However , he stressed that economic growth was still heavily dependent on continued flows of external assistance , since the programmes under way would take a long time to carry out .
9 This was a serious threat to a country so dependent on outside supplies but , in the same way that the divisions between the Francoist " families " strengthened Franco 's own position , the Caudillo was now assisted by a difference of opinion among the Allied powers .
10 That 's right , so implications there for developing countries , who are typically very dependent on agricultural exports as a source of export earnings .
11 The report stated that the future of Hamilton 's four virgin oil and gas fields , was dependent on gas-fired stations being able to generate electricity .
12 The report says that the future of Hamilton 's four virgin oil and gas fields is dependent on gas-fired stations being able to generate electricity .
13 Hence it is appropriate that local councils are dependent on central funds .
14 Whatever it is called , the course of illness in people infected with HIV is variable , unpredictable and dependent on many factors , including the psychological state and previous health of the individual .
15 Yet we all of us swim between the outside world and the internal , trying to look at ourselves from the outside and also looking from the inside at the world , having a sense of ourselves and how we look that may be variable and dependent on many things — mood , confirmation from others , self-esteem , changing trends in what is considered attractive .
16 I conclude that it will probably ne be necessary for there to be a regime dependent on paid carers .
17 Couched in these terms , where the political nature of the interpretation is not hidden behind the language of ‘ cognitive ’ structures and ‘ intellectual ’ abilities , the argument for the consequences of literacy appears less absolute , less ‘ technical ’ and more obviously dependent on ideologically-based assumptions .
18 In order to implement this progress we urgently need more funding , and as we are entirely dependent on private donations ask you , please to send whatever you can .
19 The absence of alternatives to becoming highly dependent on private companies may leave little choice but to accept the parameters set by the ideology of the firm as a family .
20 Instead of going into all the details of this stage , which are likely to be inapplicable to other designs , as they are so dependent on personal likes and dislikes , I simply show you the design limits worked out ( fig.1 ) and what I made .
21 However , the importance of the group is often measured by the number or helplessness of the people dependent on such services and the degree to which they are affected , for example we can all fall ill and a strike of doctors would affect all classes , rich and poor , young and old alike .
22 Although it can not be ruled out that some unconscious oro-pharyngeal muscle movement was occurring during the experimental tasks , ‘ inner speech ’ is probably not dependent on such movements .
23 The strength of union bargaining power is , however , variable , being dependent on such factors as levels of unionisation , the regulatory controls to which unions are required to conform , the ease with which the employer can transfer operations to another country , and not least the state of the employment market .
24 It was simply too demeaning to believe that the experience we had shared had been dependent on such things as the amount of booze Dennis put away that lunchtime .
25 The clay soils of many farms north of the Downs , for example , do not lend themselves to intensive arable farming , and few farms here ( or , for that matter , fields ) are far from woodlands so that they are not wholly dependent on such features as patches of scrub or hedges for the presence of many common farmland species .
26 The third sector , in part funded by ‘ strategic ’ money , is concerned with completely new products , which are becoming increasingly dependent on new processes .
27 Some women are financially dependent on other members of the family and so may be dependent on someone else to pay their Poll Tax bill .
28 The truth of the conditional is dependent on other things .
29 The truth that if c had n't occurred then neither would e is equally dependent on other things .
30 That is not dependent on other things in just the way that ( 3 ) is dependent on other things .
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