Example sentences of "[not/n't] depend on the " in BNC.

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1 They should not depend on the personal commitment of one leader , he said .
2 But it was not a jurisdictional question , for his jurisdiction to decide it did not depend on the correctness of the answer he gave .
3 The identity of a horse can be preserved through changes of matter ; it does not depend on the identity of a continued material substance , but on ‘ the unity of one continued life ’ .
4 Similarly , the identity of a person does not depend on the continuity of an immaterial substance , a mind or soul .
5 Through faith Christ 's presence — which does not depend on the individual 's faith in order to be the Lord 's real gift of himself to his Church — becomes no longer just a presence for the believer , but also a presence with him .
6 In the same way , the significance of a particular sequence of impulses in a nerve fibre does not depend on the sequence itself : the meaning depends on where the nerve comes from ( for example , what part of what sense organ ) , and its interpretation depends on where it goes to ( that is , to what part of the brain ) .
7 Therefore , gaining resources may not depend on the logic of the case but on a number of other factors .
8 Notice that these examples do not depend on the law being unjust .
9 If any genes of an organism , such as a human , could discover a way of spreading themselves that did not depend on the conventional sperm of egg route , they would take it and be less cooperative .
10 Advantages of fructosamine are that it does not depend on the haemoglobin level and it will probably be considerably cheaper .
11 The simulation process is parallel , since one simulation does not depend on the outcome of a previous one .
12 The major advantage of this method is that it does not depend on the calculation of MNI , which at best is an unreliable estimate of the true numbers of individuals in a sample .
13 A trust is what is left not in the words of the civil law but as a request , and does not depend on the rigour of the civil law but on the intention of the settlor .
14 The use of the material does not depend on the presence of a lecturer or a librarian .
15 This is because it does not depend on the source from which the language as an object is drawn but on the learners ' engagement with it .
16 But Burma can not depend on the Army indefinitely .
17 the explanatory power and potential planning applicability of geographic theory does not depend on the employed and usually specified spatial axioms but rather on the unspecified axioms about individual and group behaviour .
18 Subsequent treatments have confirmed Fisher 's conclusions ( O'Donald , 1980 ; Lande , 1981 ) and shown that the process need not depend on the initial female preference favouring more viable males ( Kirkpatrick , 1982 ) .
19 Furthermore , nothing has yet been said about all the research that does not depend on the collection of data by the sociologist ( primary data ) but instead makes use of secondary data — the wealth of material already available from other sources , such as government statistics , personal diaries , newspapers , and other kinds of information .
20 But Gilligan also says that she is not interested simply in data , and that her arguments do not depend on the statistical significance of her results .
21 To summarize , presidents do not depend on the trading of favours alone .
22 Kearney late last year showed that the success or failure of information technology applications does not depend on the absolute level of investment .
23 It would then follow ( as Boole had said in 1847 ) that " the validity … does not depend on the interpretation of the symbols …
24 As the story goes , these are statements , first , which have the distinction that their truth-values do not depend on the truth-values of statements they contain .
25 Its truth , if it is true , does not depend on the truth-value of the contained statement that the play is to begin at eight .
26 Since the argument does not depend on the nature of X and L , the result is generally true , and the theorem established .
27 Chaplin to such cases , though that will require reconsideration of the current view that the weight of authority in the Court of Appeal does not depend on the number of judges hearing the appeal .
28 What is more , the regress does not depend on the causal element of the example used .
29 It depends on matters such as physical attributes and abilities of individuals , their monetary resources , the availability of mechanized means of transport and the appropriate infrastructure ; but it does not depend on the opportunities that may or may not present themselves as a result of moving : accessibility alone incorporates this feature ( Moseley 1979a ) .
30 There is no necessary relationship between these schemata and the actual details of a song ; the details could be substituted without affecting the essential meaning , while conversely the overall structure does not depend on the details .
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