Example sentences of "depends [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The integrity of trails depends during their existence on no component object being deleted during maintenance of the hyper-media data-base . |
| 2 | 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 : |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | … 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Any sort of placement depends for its success on a good working relationship between artist , organiser and location . |
| 14 | These activities , so it is claimed , generate the wealth on which the remainder broadly the service sector — depends for its existence . |
| 15 | Every type of fiction depends for its defining and acceptance on certain conventions which are , in effect , agreements between author and reader . |
| 16 | This story depends for its interest and a good deal of its plot on the existence of the District Line . |
| 17 | It is then evident that the statement , " If f did n't occur , neither did s " , like its partner , depends for its truth on the fact that certain events did not occur . |
| 18 | Each term depends for its existence , that sort of existence it has , on being in relation with the other . |
| 19 | The future of English studies depends for its success upon establishing a " coherent body of knowledge " for the discipline , and attempting to shape imagine actively the new " teenage subcultural ideal " now being formed . |
| 20 | The African elephant shrew , a highly-strung insect-eating mammal the size of a mouse with a nose drawn out into a mobile trunk , depends for its safety on knowing its trails better than any hunter that might chase it . |
| 21 | At present the world depends for its platinum on refining copper nickel ores from a limited number of mines in Canada and southern Africa . |
| 22 | There was as well , similar but a whole step in advance , the why-dun-it , the book which depends for its interest on showing that someone who could easily enough have committed a certain murder but who on the face of it was incapable of that particular crime ( i.e. one who had J. C. Masterman 's aces of spades , hearts and diamonds but apparently not clubs ) is nevertheless seen eventually to be psychologically capable of that crime after all , once probed deeply enough . |
| 23 | The updated version of the old Poor Law , which sustains most of today 's welfare professionals , depends for its continuity on such counsels of despair . |
| 24 | The central claim in this phase of the argument , then , is that an ostensibly relational statement depends for its meaningfulness and truth upon the meaningfulness and truth of certain " non-relational " subject/predicate statements , but that the opposite is not necessarily the case . |
| 25 | Leadership depends for its success not only on the knowledge , skills and personality of the leader , but also on the task to be achieved , the skills and motivation of the team , and the environment or situation in which the leader has to operate . |
| 26 | It follows that evaluation evidence depends for its existence and interpretation upon a specification of desired states . |
| 27 | It must be that good musical form depends for its success not only on the principle of statement and change , but also on the proportions of one musical period in relation to another , and also to the whole of a movement , perhaps even to the whole of a multi-movement piece . |
| 28 | Equation ( 3.28 ) depends for its validity on risk-neutrality and identical transactions costs in forward and spot markets . |
| 29 | Any industry , whether public or private , depends for its success on markets . |
| 30 | Verb-phrase anaphora occurs when a verb-phrase depends for its interpretation on another verb-phrase occurring earlier in the spoken or written discourse . |