Example sentences of "[noun sg] depended on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Jardana stated that implementation of the budget depended on the availability of foreign grants , aid and easy-term loans . |
| 2 | Since the profession 's livelihood depended on the public having confidence in its members ' integrity and professional ability , he warned , those who did break the rules would be dealt with swiftly , effectively and fairly . |
| 3 | During the plague of 1603 rumours were fathered on him and John Dee [ q.v. ] to the effect that its future course depended on the imminent fall of a planet to earth . |
| 4 | After the Labour group meeting , which was held in private , Councillor Keith Geddes , leader of the Lothian administration , said the referendum depended on the proposals put forward in a white paper which Mr Lang was due to publish . |
| 5 | The client 's choice of search firm in this case depended on the nature of the requirement . |
| 6 | I remember him struggling with a story where understanding of the narrative depended on the reader knowing about canals . |
| 7 | Men fighting in the field depended on the votes of men splitting straws in Washington . |
| 8 | Any plan for the future depended on the term of the girl 's life now ending , and neither could speak of that . |
| 9 | FEARING his rights as a British citizen depended on the whim of government policy , he returned to Britain . |
| 10 | It is not obvious , although it may be true , that the ideas that a causal circumstance made its effect happen , and explained it , and that the effect depended on the circumstance , somehow come to no more than these independent conditional claims . |
| 11 | Gustave did n't understand this , could n't see that my talent depended on the swift moment , the sudden feeling , the unexpected meeting : on life , that 's what I 'm saying . |
| 12 | In the GCHQ case the House of Lords held that there was no general rule that prerogative powers were not subject to judicial review on grounds of reasonableness and fairness : whether any particular exercise of a prerogative power was subject to such review depended on the nature of the power in question and the circumstances in which it was exercised . |
| 13 | The amount of delegation depended on the size and staffing of the districts , but there was a clear trend to greater delegation during the 1960s . |
| 14 | Although John 's percentage cut depended on the total amount collected , it was known that he never harassed tax debtors , indeed , anyone with genuine difficulty in paying was likely to be entertained to lunch at Henrietta Villa by the sympathetic Comptroller . |
| 15 | To prevent patients on the same ward comparing the contents of different fact sheets ( and thereby contaminating the data ) , randomisation depended on the ward and week of admission : forms used on a given ward were randomly alternated each week . |
| 16 | Such a campaign depended on the efforts of several hundred Salahs , each with his persuasive skills and his connections with the parents of the girls . |
| 17 | Its wealth depended on the scientists who worked in a large lab behind the administrative block . |
| 18 | The NSF 's response to opposition criticism of the treaty on this issue depended on the argument that to raise the Moldavian question would open up other territorial issues , such as possible Hungarian claims to Transylvania . |
| 19 | Since then there have been estimates made , but these have mostly concentrated on personal injuries and much of the work depended on the retrospective analysis of data collected for other purposes such as litigation and insurance claims . |
| 20 | In the absence of the risk-free asset , efficient diversification depended on the covariances between securities and ‘ financial interior decorating ’ was no longer sufficient to create a portfolio with the requisite risk-return characteristics . |
| 21 | If meaning depended on the value of a continuous variable , then every time the message was replicated it would change , however slightly . |
| 22 | By 1928 over one-third of the city s population depended on the administration for employment , unemployment relief , income or pension . |
| 23 | The process depended on the willingness of large numbers of members to serve voluntarily in the various capacities concerned . |
| 24 | A king depended on the administrative structure of the civitas for tax revenue and for some of the manpower required for his armies . |
| 25 | Ultimately , though , all of this setting and development depended on the acting and this is where Warner Bros could really score . |
| 26 | The public character of scientific knowledge depended on the interpersonal and critical debate between scientists . |
| 27 | The rest depended on the grocer . |
| 28 | Third , the success of the revolution depended on the presence not only of the appropriate ‘ objective ’ social and economic conditions , but of the necessary ‘ subjective ’ conditions : the organization of the proletariat into a class-conscious revolutionary movement . |
| 29 | The Danakil did not hunt and the Abyssinians , who had wiped out most of the game elsewhere , were afraid to venture into their country , since among the Danakil a man 's standing depended on the number of men he had killed and castrated . |
| 30 | Even the institutions of popular democracy depended on the participation of disinterested and honest personnel . |