Example sentences of "[vb pp] to depend on the " in BNC.

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1 Under Felipismo , Spaniards have come to depend on the state again , as they did for so long under Generalissimo Franco 's regime . ’
2 Life or death has come to depend on the proper functioning or malfunctioning of super-sensitive equipment over a couple of seconds .
3 The agricultural system was stable but not stagnant : it had come to depend on the cow , maize , and wheat , sensible rotations and no fallow .
4 For several reasons more people had come to depend on the cash purchase of goods .
5 During the past 15 years patients have come to depend on the day hospital service .
6 The security of an estimated 40,000 US jobs was reported to depend on the contract , which was opposed by Israel .
7 The A-measure can be expected to depend on the exposure , the intensity of the incident light and of course the true area .
8 The optimum ramp gradient and stepping rate limit depend on the number of steps to be executed ( see following example ) and , in principle , the function generator characteristics could be made to depend on the target position information .
9 For earlier social reformers , human progress or decline had been seen to depend on the constant interplay of the individual 's moral faculties and the state of the environment .
10 Finally , the development of the application of online services was felt to depend on the enthusiasm and ability of , at least , one good user .
11 This is said to depend on the intention of Parliament .
12 This is said to depend on the intention of Parliament but the test is fictitious as Parliament frequently gives no thought to the question .
13 Well then you 've got to depend on the wardening of the site .
14 In the next Section the torque produced by the motor is shown to depend on the interaction of the phase current and induced phase voltage .
15 The gross savings rate out of output Y is assumed to depend on the capital-labour ratio ( the nature of this dependence is discussed below ) , and we take the simple case of a proportionate rate of depreciation , y , often referred to as ‘ radioactive decay ’ .
16 The production of stress is generally believed to depend on the speaker using more muscular energy than is used for unstressed syllables .
17 On the other hand , can peace really be allowed to depend on the goodwill of people who have already shown their contempt for even basic considerations of humanity ?
18 As latent inhibition is held to depend on the integrity of the context — stimulus association , both these procedures should alleviate the retarding effect of pre-exposure to the stimulus .
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