Example sentences of "depend [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But right now what is needed is a bottom-up approach ; entrusting the forests to those increasingly organised peoples whose survival has depended for generations on environmental knowledge . |
| 2 | Social control depended for respect on agencies which proved increasingly inadequate . |
| 3 | In the course of time the pirates turned merchants became a great hereditary patriciate , and Venice came to rule a mercantile empire much akin to that of ancient Athens , even in the end to acquire a large contado along and behind the Italian coast — but only after it had depended for centuries on piracy and trade for its food and livelihood . |
| 4 | In every aspect of his work Caro is brazenly derivative , depending for effect on the assertiveness of scale , and is , in essence , trivial ; but , translated from the Tate Gallery to the Roman Forum ( see The Art Newspaper No. 18 , May 1992 , p. 5 ) , he is this year the beam in the public 's eye ( would that he were only a mote ) , and thus inevitably the choice of Heaths and Fanfanis . |
| 5 | The feeding process takes quite a long time , depending of course on the sizes of the individuals concerned and various environmental factors , such as temperature ( see p. 303 ) . |
| 6 | I had been used to analysing speech — such as in a radio discussion — which ran at an average rate of 300 syllables a minute , depending of course on such variables as personality and regional accent ( for some accents are spoken much more rapidly than others ) . |
| 7 | Yes , depending of course on what it costs me . |
| 8 | Second , state policy is constrained because government depends for taxation revenue upon maintaining successful capital accumulation . |
| 9 | It depends for success upon the goodwill and support of the LEAs and the schools . |
| 10 | Just as the pure scientist , from his [ or her ] early training , absolves himself [ or herself ] from the uses to which his [ or her ] discoveries are put , rather than seeing that the discoveries themselves are inescapably linked to an economy on which he [ or she ] depends for support , so the applied scientist accepts that others define the goals that he [ or she ] has to achieve rather than seeing that his [ or her ] own means or technology itself presupposes a social order , set of priorities or goals . |
| 11 | Some 40 per cent of the world 's population depends for drinking water , irrigation and hydro-electric power on 214 river systems shared by two or more countries . |
| 12 | But , on reflection , this depends for example on one 's theory of oligopoly . |
| 13 | But it is an option that I certainly would n't want to discount at this particular er stage erm because it depends on so many er factors , it depends for example whether er the site that er has been identified for up to two thousand and six , and which is developed up to two thousand and six , has the physical capacity to expand beyond two thousand and six , and I think that that ought to be one of the considerations perhaps that we ought to look at as we move towards the identification erm er of the new settlement , conversely , it could well be that ought to be looking at a second new settlement in a different location , erm I ca n't give an answer , a definitive answer , what I can say is , coming back again er to Mr Brook , this sort of issue er will not be picked up in nineteen eighty eight or nineteen eighty nine , er if we are all alive and kicking in North Yorkshire and the District Councils we will be looking at it regularly , we 'll be looking at it in two years time , one years time , erm erm that 's the way we work in Greater York , and it 's basically worked very successfully . |
| 14 | It is a defining feature of capitalist society that the productive wealth of the society ( on which the whole population depends for employment and products ) is privately owned and controlled . |
| 15 | While scientists may be called on to use their knowledge to set priorities for action by conservation groups , the groups depend for funding and action on their public appeal . |
| 16 | On the one hand , it is clear that we depend for survival upon our bodies , whereas we may not want to say that God depends upon the world for survival . |
| 17 | As parasitic tissues generally depend for survival on a more rapid synthesis of nucleic acid than the tissues on which they prey , anything which stopped the synthesis of nucleic acids had a chance of harming parasites more than their hosts . |
| 18 | They depend for business on Copts , but Prester John 's poor little Ethiopes are not even permitted to roll eggs at Easter . |
| 19 | They appear in vast numbers in the Antarctic Ocean particularly in summer ( they depend for food upon the blooms of phytoplankton ) and it is then that whales like the blue migrate towards the pole to feed . |
| 20 | Other studies elsewhere have linked changes in trophic-level populations to acid deposition effects , such as the decline in goldcrests in coniferous forests where trees suffering lost needles support fewer spiders on which these birds depend for food in winter . |
| 21 | It all depends of course on what is meant by ‘ the feminine ’ . |
| 22 | Final pricing depends of course on how Sun eventually pitches its Tsunami offering , which is to be announced two days prior to HP 's roll-out . |
| 23 | Much depends of course upon what is meant by ‘ success ’ as well as by ‘ policy ’ and ‘ planning ’ . |
| 24 | The effectiveness of the second vote depends of course on its being assessed on a national basis , not in separate constituencies . |
| 25 | The " individuating force " of such references depends of course to a large extent upon the context in which they are made . |
| 26 | The extent to which we aggregate individual units in this way depends of course on the purpose at hand . |
| 27 | How well the record fares depends of course on whether Swindon can repeat their achievement of 1990 and win the play-off final at Wembley . |
| 28 | Achieving that goal means more than just exposing and preventing abuses ; adequate protection of human rights depends of people knowing what their rights are . |
| 29 | All of these generalisations depend of course on a constant wind speed sufficient to fly the kite within its designed wind window . |
| 30 | The sampling frequency of water depends under regulations upon population density . |