Example sentences of "depend [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This makes one wonder just how many other kinds of excavations have depended for their chronology on similar evidence . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Although these depended for their success on voluntary support , the Association went on to lobby for new towns sponsored by the State . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The integrity of trails depends during their existence on no component object being deleted during maintenance of the hyper-media data-base . |
| 7 | He argued that society is at bottom a system of organization for producing the goods on which people depend for their life . |
| 8 | For the families and individuals this means that they depend for their electricity on what they can generate for themselves , grow much of their own food and recycle their own wastes . |
| 9 | Where production cooperatives have been successfully established , as in the south of Italy , Greece , Ireland and the Western Islands of Scotland for example , there is no uniform model , they all differ and depend for their character on local social , political and historical factors . |
| 10 | Market research firms , government research agencies , academic research units and many other organizations which carry out survey interviews depend for their success on the voluntary help given to them by members of the general public . |
| 11 | Most managers thus depend for their development on a mixture of exhortation from above , the interest of their immediate seniors and self-help . |
| 12 | The support and guidance of ‘ real ’ employers on the boards of mini enterprise schemes can be helpful ; the advice of professionals about equipment purchase , attendance-pattern of trainees , syllabus choice or , even , staff recruitment can all be derived from an active and effective pattern of Governors ' Advisory Committees ; industrial or commercial figures on governing bodies can give a helpful perspective ; one-off lectures or presentations on an aspect of the business world can enhance a course — but all these examples depend for their success on agreed objectives . |
| 13 | Even now many families on Cape Verde depend for their existence on money sent back from relations working abroad . |
| 14 | We believe that the homoeopathic remedies are an information system and , as such , depend for their action on the quality of the remedy rather than on its quantity . |
| 15 | If such rights depend for their enforcement on existing legal processes , how effective can they be ? |
| 16 | Rapidly advancing technologies in health care and clinical practice taking place across the whole spectrum of medical , surgical and mental health specialties depend for their success to a large degree on the sufficiency of sound nursing skills and personnel . |
| 17 | Many crimes depend for their success on being undiscovered , such as fraud and embezzlement . |
| 18 | It is characterized by bargaining over indicative or strategic plans which depend for their success upon voluntary co-operation between elites who are capable of withdrawing from any bargains struck ( Shonfield , 1965 ; Crouch , 1982 ) . |
| 19 | Fiduciary duties depend for their enforcement on the shareholders taking action against the wrongdoing corporate managers . |
| 20 | At the same time these avenues depend for their inspiration on a more abstract set of values of community and democracy which can be found in political theory . |
| 21 | It should be noted , too , that government conduct can be authorized by ‘ prerogative ’ powers which depend for their existence on recognition by the courts . |
| 22 | Both plot and character depend for their effect on the theme of honour which underpins the two books . |
| 23 | The next four instruments depend for their efficacy upon incorporation into contracts , though a codification of custom and usage could perhaps be relied on as the best evidence of custom and usage and as such be imported by implication into a contract , whilst the adoption of general contractual conditions is not the exclusive prerogative of private parties but can also be achieved by embodiment in bilateral or multilateral Conventions implemented by dispositive legislation in the various participating States . |
| 24 | By contrast the International Chamber of Commerce , which is an international non-governmental organization with national Chambers of Commerce as its members , promotes non-law instruments which depend for their effect upon contractual incorporation . |
| 25 | Skills depend for their application upon knowledge , and there is no substitute for practice in the development of a skill . |
| 26 | Many of the girls depend for their livelihood on their wages . " |
| 27 | The former depend for their structure upon the costs of alternative means of supply , whereas the latter , as we have seen , depend upon marginal costs and upon demand elasticities . |
| 28 | Moreover , Arabic tends to use a relatively small number of conjunctions , each of which has a wide range of meanings which depend for their interpretation on the context , thus relying heavily on the reader 's ability to infer relationships which are only vaguely alluded to by the writer . |
| 29 | They have the opposite effect : they draw or call a horse towards the horseman ; but they , too , depend for their effect on the horse 's keen sense of smell . |
| 30 | Christine Brooke-Rose 's growing interest in structuralist linguistics is evident in her novels of the 1960s in the use of creative juxtaposition and other devices which depend for their effect on the relations between elements rather than on the elements ‘ as such ’ . |