Example sentences of "[noun] depend on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fourth , the grant depended on continued government goodwill ; in 1983 it was cut , and part of the rest was allotted only to courses jointly approved by employers . |
| 2 | Yet the conventional wisdom in the transport world of the 1970s was that all progress depended on public investment , public controls and , of course , public ownership . |
| 3 | The nasal-directed response in young infants has been widely interpreted as reflecting a functional crossed pathway , direct to the NOT , with the temporal-directed response depending on later maturation of an uncrossed pathway through binocular cortical neurons . |
| 4 | SPAR 's input was processed initially by a syntactic and semantic analyser ( Boguraev 1979 ) that resolved as much non-anaphoric ( word-sense and structural ) ambiguity as possible , leaving anaphors untouched , and constructing alternative case-labelled dependency structures when non-anaphoric ambiguities depended on contextual information for its resolution . |
| 5 | Here we show that the proliferation of oligodendrocyte precursor cells in the developing rat optic nerve depends on electrical activity in neighbouring axons , and that this activity-dependence can be circumvented by experimentally increasing the concentration of platelet-derived growth factor , which is present in the optic nerve and stimulates these cells to proliferate in culture . |
| 6 | Does this mean that our mental images depend on this amine in some way ? |
| 7 | According to the ‘ accelerator ’ theory , the level of current net investment depends on past income changes . |
| 8 | Subjects depend on each other . |
| 9 | Organizations depend on upward communication and a multitude of systems are designed to force that information to flow . |
| 10 | ‘ Win-win ’ is preferable to ‘ win-lose ’ in generating cooperative effort and effective organizations depend on cooperative effort rather than on fear of reprisal . |
| 11 | Yet work organizations depend on shared power in win-win cooperative effort . |
| 12 | That 's commendable in some ways but good forward play depends on honest commitment with everyone getting stuck in . |
| 13 | According to India 's planning commission , nearly three-quarters of households in towns and cities depend on non-commercial energy for cooking . |
| 14 | We know real freedom for the majority depends on economic efficiency and social justice . |
| 15 | We noted that the major instrument of central control over local activity was financial : local authorities depend on central government for nearly half their income , with most of the rest coming from rates . |
| 16 | The Women 's Institute is devoted to the service of husband and family , a convent of nuns to the service of a male god : their very existence depends on this element of male service . |
| 17 | This phrase is proved as at point 5 , but as the case depends on this point , such evidence is best given by a reliable witness who had a good view of the vehicles concerned . |
| 18 | As it is often difficult for users to give accurate references to the area of software to which their report applies , the nominated user depends on any software issues or modules referenced by the SPR . |
| 19 | As it is often difficult for users to give accurate references to the area of software to which their report applies , the nominated user depends on any software issues or modules referenced by the SPR . |
| 20 | Games and contests depend on good organisation and the clear enthusiasm of the teacher . |
| 21 | This work depended on intimate collaboration between laboratory chemists , laboratory parasitologists , and clinicians expert in the disease in question . |
| 22 | This result , however , is not reflected in the ‘ absolute income ’ hypothesis where consumption depends on present income alone . |
| 23 | Of course this is not an absolute distinction , as historical descriptions depend on some kind of theoretical orientation , and theory depends on systematic observation and description of linguistic forms ( otherwise there is nothing to have a theory about ) . |
| 24 | Finally , we must consider the effect on national income of a change in the lump-sum tax ( T ) on the assumption that consumption , saving and imports depend on disposable income ( Y d ) rather than national income ( Y ) : recall that Y d = Y - T. Suppose that the lump-sum tax is raised by £2 million ( from £2m. to £4m . ) . |
| 25 | Like the meeting in London just after the death of Edmund Ironside , it hints at a realisation on Cnut 's part that his rule would to a degree depend on English support . |
| 26 | Their performances and their lives depend on that knowledge . |
| 27 | The obvious problem with the designs of these experiments is that it is impossible to know whether the difference observed in the test depends on positive transfer in the distinctiveness group , negative transfer in the equivalence group , or both of these . |
| 28 | Both countries depend on wildlife-based tourism for their economic survival . |
| 29 | Elsewhere , their appearance depended on favourable opportunity . |
| 30 | Like all play , this drama depended on formal order , without which progress within a game and pleasure from a game are alike impossible : anyone who breaks the rules spoils the game , makes it a poor and foolish thing ( p. 20 ) . |