Example sentences of "depends [adv] on " in BNC.

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1 In any case , hospital admission depends locally on waiting lists and varying medical policy .
2 The barbecue is always one of the more popular events , though where we do this depends rather on whether the wind has dropped or not !
3 This chapter has necessarily concentrated on activity at the centre and , in doing so , demonstrated how much any local initiative depends eventually on Course-wide endorsement .
4 I hope that the results of the public inquiry will be announced shortly and that the advance works on the link can be started before the end of the year , although that depends wholly on the outcome of the general election , because , as I said , the Opposition are committed to reducing expenditure on roads and vital pieces of road infrastructure such as that for which my hon. Friend rightly argues would be threatened by a Labour Government .
5 Each jelly will sway back and forth in a characteristic time , or period , that depends predominantly on its height and consistency .
6 There are far too few structures for democratic representation and control over union education , so that decision-making depends mostly on a smaller number of individuals .
7 Their defence depends mostly on fighters using small arms and home-made anti-armour grenades .
8 While this transformation depends fundamentally on workers ' initiatives it could be aided by a government using the financing relation ( 4 ) as a means of leverage .
9 A range of critics ( including Coate , 1983 ; Hamel and Prahalad , 1985 ; Porter , 1985 ; Naylor , 1982 , 1986 ; Prahalad and Doz , 1987 ) have emphasized that the validity of the portfolio-matrix approach depends fundamentally on the existence of SBUs which have little or no interdependence in a corporate group 's portfolio .
10 This depends entirely on you and your children and there is no simple answer .
11 Whether the last two antics are viable depends entirely on the context .
12 As a result , the evidence for this second stage in the history of marriage depends entirely on the two assumptions which we have already noted .
13 The CRC depends entirely on voluntary contributions .
14 The nature of the code ( that is , for example , that GGC codes for glycine ) depends entirely on which anticodon and which attachment site occur together on a tRNA molecule .
15 It can be assessed only by its appropriateness , but this depends entirely on what the pupil is writing about and for what purpose ( and so has a cross-curricular dimension ) .
16 The form this takes depends entirely on the circumstances of the owner .
17 The seriousness with which such a man takes those duties , and the manner in which he arranges them in his mind as regards their priorities depends entirely on how , from early childhood , he has been taught and influenced by his home life , schools and religious training , if any .
18 A Bill may well be approved , if time is available , in which case whether it ever completes its course depends entirely on whether there happens to be sufficient time .
19 He must be able to decide rightly whether a native chiefs first offence should be punished , or whether patience should be exercised until he has offended ten , nay twenty times — either course may be the right one , it depends entirely on circumstances .
20 The CRC depends entirely on voluntary contributions .
21 That depends entirely on what you do together after you meet her or him .
22 Maillol particularly will attract prices in excess of $1 million for the best subjects and this depends entirely on supply and demand .
23 There are numerous difficulties in making an historical study which depends entirely on written evidence , which may not represent the experience of the mass of children , and is at best a distillation of the views of the literate classes .
24 Above all , his teaching about his own role in the purposes of God depends entirely on the conviction that he must fulfil the Old Testament .
25 What you should photograph depends entirely on editors ' requirements .
26 At first sight it would seem difficult to bring a restitutionary claim within this article , and Mr. Beazley 's case depends entirely on the construction which he seeks to put on the Court of Justice decision in Kalfelis v. Bankhaus Schrôder , Mûnchmeyer , Hengst and Co .
27 Its success depends entirely on the personalities of the people involved .
28 The meaning of a sentence in English , and in languages with similarly fixed word order such as Chinese , often depends entirely on the order in which the elements are placed ( cf. The man ate the fish and The fish ate the man ) .
29 The other crucial thing with painting is that the printed quality of an image depends entirely on its resolution .
30 We identify the sound-image ‘ tree ’ by differentiating it from ‘ free ’ , ‘ try ’ , and so forth ; equally the meaning of the concept tree depends entirely on its difference from such related concepts as bush , plant , etc. , that of the concept orange on its difference from yellow and red .
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