Example sentences of "depended [adv] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true that his criticisms further antagonized the American administration , but de Gaulle willingly took the gamble , believing that his survival now depended more on the French people than on Roosevelt . |
| 2 | The Elton Committee concluded that the lack of uniformity suggested that the effectiveness or otherwise of a particular sanction depended both on the individual teacher and on the circumstances of the school . |
| 3 | The slave-owning aristocracy of the Southern United States , the estancieros of Argentina , the great wool-ranchers of Australia , were as enthusiastically devoted to free trade and foreign enterprise as the British , on whom they depended , since their incomes depended exclusively on the free sale of the produce of their estates , in return for which they were more than ready to accept any non-agricultural products which their customers exported . |
| 4 | Even if that , too , depended initially on the basic distinction of qualification and assignment , there is no reason to deny that finding each value preferentially in one of the two positions will lead to an association directly between value and position . |
| 5 | Although the defence of the West depended primarily on the American nuclear umbrella , he could justifiably claim that there was a wide measure of agreement in Britain that the country must possess ‘ an appreciable element of nuclear deterrent power ’ of its own . |
| 6 | The Whitelaw and subsequent ‘ direct rule ’ administrations depended heavily on the friendly co-operation of the British majority in Ulster . |
| 7 | Training in financial management depended heavily on the Advisory Services expertise . |