Example sentences of "depend [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christianity , in common with other religions , depended for its spread on several concepts . |
| 2 | Dyarchy had always depended for its successful working on the exercise of tactful influence by the British governor and his officials , who had their reputations invested in preventing the resignations of their Indian colleagues ; but Irwin 's formulation took the controlling role allotted to influence much further . |
| 3 | Arbitration bestowed legitimacy upon the early trade unions — they were explicitly recognised and the system depended for its effectiveness upon their participation . |
| 4 | And as the handmaid of religiosity , ritual 's part was to express and impress those sentiments of group adherence on which the orderly life of the social organism depended for its survival . |
| 5 | The authoritarian paterfamilias presided over the institutionalisation of the double standard , while the pedestalised mother and wife depended for her purity on the degradation of the fallen woman . |
| 6 | Because the laws of war derive to a large extent from standards which have developed within states , and because they have always depended for their enforcement largely on national legal systems , court decisions have been a very important source of the laws of war . |
| 7 | This makes one wonder just how many other kinds of excavations have depended for their chronology on similar evidence . |
| 8 | Like most peoples of the forest and tundra , the Tungus depended for their livelihood upon herds of domesticated reindeer , their use of which had several specific features . |
| 9 | Although these depended for their success on voluntary support , the Association went on to lobby for new towns sponsored by the State . |
| 10 | As yet , however , there was no indication from the accounts available to Gould that these different species of finch depended for their characteristics on their different localities . |
| 11 | Her book is not a comprehensive history of English garden design , but a much chancier , though equally delightful narrative depending for its emphasis on what happened to find its way into the collection . |
| 12 | Declaration of a republic , by the monarch or by Ministers , could have no legal effect upon legislation recognising the monarchy and would be revolutionary thus depending for its constitutionality upon acquiescence and effectiveness . |
| 13 | Adopting and extending the Gothic taste for punctuating walls with large windows , he built a skeletal structure depending for its stability on the skilful use of flying buttresses . |
| 14 | It is rather a display of witty dexterity , depending for its effect upon a sharing of specialized learning between author/narrator and readers/listeners . |
| 15 | The integrity of trails depends during their existence on no component object being deleted during maintenance of the hyper-media data-base . |
| 16 | Favret-Saada 's unique analysis ( ibid. 1–28 ) of the bizarre subjective position she found herself in is a masterful assessment of the difficulties which arise when the ethnographer seeks to gain knowledge of a social group which depends for its existence on ‘ misknowledge ’ or silence : |
| 17 | This depends for its prima facie plausibility upon the assumption that there can , should or must be a correlation between the quantity of energy incident on nervous tissue and the intensity of experience . |
| 18 | The fluxgate magnetometer , which depends for its action on the detection of saturation occurring in magnetic material , can be made both small and highly accurate . |
| 19 | … the profound darkness of every part of the city in which there are not shops illuminated by the owners with gas … there is not a little country town in England which is not incomparably better lighted than any street in Paris which depends for its illumination upon the public regulations of the City . |
| 20 | Successful conservation may well imply a cutback in commercial crops and therefore a reduction in foreign exchange on which the state elite depends for its imported luxuries , foreign travel and education . |
| 21 | Unlike a factory which depends for its efficiency on changing technology , the investment of labour , materials and energy represented in a building continues to yield a return even centuries after its construction . |
| 22 | On the one hand it can be used simply to say that whilst theory is essential and desirable it nevertheless depends for its validity on observation ( of an empirical kind ) . |
| 23 | It is also important to note that Zuccarelli used a digital recording system , the portable Sony F1 costing around £2000 : binaural recording depends for its success on accurate replication of the phase discrepancies caused by delays of the sound across the head and at the ear lobes . |
| 24 | Osburn 's points were that his fellow Englishmen in India , whose heartless behaviour towards Indians he described in some detail , failed to ‘ realize that the British Empire depends for its existence on obtaining the consent and the friendly co-operation of the races governed ’ , and that the demand for independence ‘ need never have arisen but for the arrogance and want of tact of a large percentage of Englishmen who , in one capacity or another , are resident in India ’ . |
| 25 | As we have seen , wood depends for its defences against crack propagation partly upon Jeronimidis ' work of fracture contrivance — which ensures that the critical Griffith crack length is a long one — and also , by way of a further safety device , upon the Cook-Gordon mechanism for stopping any crack which gets past George . |
| 26 | Lesk explains that ‘ the idea is to select the correct sense of a word by counting overlapping words between the sense definitions and the definitions of the other words in nearby context … it depends for its success on having fairly long and informative definitions . |
| 27 | Any sort of placement depends for its success on a good working relationship between artist , organiser and location . |
| 28 | These activities , so it is claimed , generate the wealth on which the remainder broadly the service sector — depends for its existence . |
| 29 | Every type of fiction depends for its defining and acceptance on certain conventions which are , in effect , agreements between author and reader . |
| 30 | This story depends for its interest and a good deal of its plot on the existence of the District Line . |