Example sentences of "depending on [pos pn] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 If the water authorities were presented as individual companies , they would be scrutinised , assessed and either bought or discarded , depending on their merits .
2 To hire a plugger and a press officer , will cost you anything from £100 a week each , depending on their track record .
3 The administration of the remedy is like dropping a pebble into the water 's edge , the ripples/waves resulting will depending on their homœopathicity cancel out the energy disturbance of the disease .
4 Depending on their radioactivity , these are either stored on the site for eventual disposal , or diluted and discharged through a pipeline into the Irish Sea .
5 The authority of the state may be greater over some individuals than over others , depending on their personal circumstances .
6 Some of the problems are highly complex and unique in that lives are at stake depending on their successful resolution .
7 Depending on their positional value the feather germs promote pigment formation by the migrant cells , or suppress it , and in this way the global pattern is specified .
8 Every Wedding Present song has been credited to Gedge , but the publishing royalties are further broken down with every member receiving a share depending on their input to a particular song .
9 The handicaps are worked out on the results of a trial race and then on all subsequent races everyone starts at minute intervals depending on their previous result .
10 Peculiars might come anywhere depending on their degree of peculiarity .
11 Such coins , depending on their denominations , could be easily identified and represented a definite weight and quality of a precious metal .
12 As a matter of procedure , it was agreed that all the monitoring and control components of the model would be given the suffix ‘ .1 ’ , whereas all other components would be numbered in a convenient order , ie depending on their place in the diagram , rather than annotated to indicate a logical sequence of events .
13 For this duty the boys received between 3d ( 1.5p ) and 6d ( 2.5p ) per week from each customer , depending on their generosity .
14 A benefit of the course structure is that students can choose topics of special interest in their final year depending on their results in Years I and 2 and their experiences on placement .
15 Coals are ‘ ranked ’ depending on their carbon content .
16 The number of lessons will vary from pupil to pupil , depending on their initial level of balance and coordination .
17 But individually they orbit at different speeds depending on their distance from the Sun , the innermost rocky planets orbiting much faster than the outer balls of frozen gaseous vapour , such as Jupiter , Saturn and Uranus .
18 2 Trim and quarter the Brussels sprouts , depending on their size .
19 Depending on their school of thought they would argue that it is due to the national , and world , recession ; an adjustment problem caused by demographic changes bringing a substantial net increase of workers on to the labour market ; particular problems within Britain at the moment ( the unions , poor management , too much or too little intervention by government , North Sea oil , or whatever ) ; or a failure in either fiscal or monetary management of the economy .
20 Depending on their response , we will be ready to impose new sanctions . ’
21 There are two reasons for this diversity : microphones have differing pick-up characteristics depending on their intended use ; and they differ in the ways in which they convert sound into electrical signals .
22 Supervision is available at many martial arts clubs which , depending on their art , provide a broad spectrum of experience — from the fairly realistic to the actual thing .
23 The study of the distribution of exotic imported goods within England has extended as far as noting that there are two basic patterns to their distribution , apparently depending on their sources , and that particular areas or individual cemeteries have disproportionately high quantities of some of these goods .
24 The speed of behaviour change will vary from child to child depending on their temperamental state , their past learning history , and the ability of the parents to be consistent .
25 Their ideas about HIV and AIDS will differ depending on their age and understanding .
26 A person should be aware of the advantages and disadvantages of knowing if he or she has HIV infection , and make the decision depending on their personality and circumstances .
27 Depending on their flair and the quality of their training they will need differing degrees of support , and depending on the school and the LEA they will either get it or not .
28 This interaction may or may not achieve a successful conclusion for both sides depending on their level of skill .
29 For instance , for the correspondence stage he defines ‘ affinity functions ’ that compute the degree of match between two points or short line-segments , depending on their distance , brightness , retinal position , inter-stimulus ( time ) interval , length , and orientation .
30 For example , apples can be red , green , yellow , or brown , depending on their type .
  Next page