Example sentences of "[adj] on [pron] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other changes meant that agricultural workers became less dependent on their employers for lodgings and could therefore marry younger . |
| 2 | Young tigers are dependent on their mothers for at least 18 months , after which the family ( left ) breaks up . |
| 3 | These storks are usually solitary nesters whose young , like those of Ibis , are dependent on their parents for food . |
| 4 | They were primarily dependent on their cattle for subsistence — particularly from milk and blood — though in some cases also planted short-season sorghum or millet as a supplement . |
| 5 | Most kites are dependent on their bridles for performance but , there are exceptions . |
| 6 | Furthermore , tradition dictates that married women should be dependent on their husbands for income in old age , his being the ‘ serious ’ earnings . |
| 7 | Policy makers and social investigators assumed that all married women would be dependent on their husbands for financial support . |
| 8 | Dick Pomfret , senior apprentice on the Hurrying Angel , is seventeen and still dependent on his elders for advice and leadership . |
| 9 | A burly figure , three stone heavier than the Frenchman , and quick on his feet for a big man . |
| 10 | In the next five years NASA was expecting to spend a further $15 billion on its plans for space station Freedom . |
| 11 | Two men had been left behind , marooned on his orders for mutiny : they had a supply of wine and hardtack , and guns and shot ; but when other , later expeditions entered the Bay they found no trace of them . |
| 12 | Bearing in mind the Opposition 's unalloyed joy at the thought of an increase in national insurance contributions for people who earn more than that , is it time that the Opposition came clean on their plans for the self-employed , who are the engine of the power house for this country ? |
| 13 | I put down five hundred on my lists for you to decide . |