Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] depends on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deciding whether to defer retirement or not depends on the level of your earnings and the pension you would get . |
| 2 | The question of whether someone has suffered special damage or not depends on the facts of the particular case , and so is very much in the discretion of the court . |
| 3 | In this situation , whether an arbitrage transaction is attractive or not depends on the time preferences of the arbitrageur , and it is not possible to state a general no-arbitrage condition . |
| 4 | Nor from the point of view of the speaker , is there any hard and fast boundary between these and a non-restrictive adjective used in order to make explicit some property , when it is suspected that the hearer is unaware that it is implied by the use of the noun , as with poisonous in : ( 10 ) she threw Maisie 's lunch-box out of the window because it had a poisonous red-back spider in it Note that ( 10 ) further exemplifies the fact that whether an adjective is taken as restrictive or not depends on the rest of the entity-identifying phrase rather than just on the head noun . |
| 5 | Whether they succeed or not depends on the circumstances . |
| 6 | The ratchet is invariably geared to the rate of return which the investors expect to receive on their equity and that usually depends on the expected market capitalisation of the company . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This is not seen as a very attractive chore but is probably the most important of all and really depends on the goodwill of a few people under the guidance of Annie Hanlon . |
| 9 | Operation leader , Falklands veteran Lieutenant Colonel Philip Neame , 46 , is determined to make a final push before Christmas — but all depends on the weather . |
| 10 | I have never thought that the EC was intrinsically or automatically good or bad , as much depends on the effect of what is decided on our constituents and , indeed , on the people of Europe as a whole . |