Example sentences of "depend on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exports depend on such factors as incomes in other countries and the rate of exchange ( which for now we assume fixed ) . |
| 2 | They depend on many factors , and it is not possible to give a full account of them here ; you will find details in Refs [ 17 ] and [ 18 ] . |
| 3 | But PMAC 's financial officer , Robert Livingstone , says that drug prices depend on many factors , including the type of national health system through which they are marketed , and that meaningful comparisons are difficult . |
| 4 | The methods used in statistics depend on many branches of mathematics and their implementation requires extensive use of computers but the subject has its own logical concepts and theory . |
| 5 | They depend on annual profits — less 25 per cent voluntary tax — from the Duchy 's 130,000 acres of farmland , which came to £2,176,798 last year . |
| 6 | In particular the research should show the extent to which these relationships are interdependent ; for example , how firms ' own strategies are constrained by those of their competitors or suppliers , or how government agencies depend on private bodies for the information needed to formulate policy . |
| 7 | Dynamic fluxes depend on motions which in turn depend on spatial variations in heating . |
| 8 | Other viruses make many of their own enzymes but still depend on cellular proteins to perform some essential tasks . |
| 9 | These views depend on political values and preferences which we are not going to explore here , but clearly if you believe that society as a whole will gain by children from all income groups being educated together , or children from a local community or religious group being educated together , you will prefer a system of finance that favours such provision . |
| 10 | Contemporary breakthroughs in nuclear science depend on large funding and on the construction of elaborate institutions geared to that end , which in turn depend on political decisions , not those of the neutral scientist in the laboratory . |
| 11 | Basically his argument is that all aspects of musical form — Adorno instances overall structure ( the thirty-two-bar chorus ) , melodic range , song-types and harmonic progressions — depend on pre-existing formulae and norms , which have the status virtually of rules , are familiar to listeners and hence are entirely predictable . |
| 12 | Focus ; both Beecham and SmithKline depend on diversified operations to generate the cash flow needed to fund expensive drugs RED and marketing . |
| 13 | All chemical and biochemical reactions depend on electrical charges and biologically active molecules carry charges which may be positive at one end of the molecule and negative at the other end . |
| 14 | The various clinical activity indices in general use depend on subjective features for their calculation and are of little use in day to day patient management , but do at least provide a tool which enables comparison of data obtained from different centres . |
| 15 | Because future bonuses depend on future profits earned by the GRE Life Fund , we can not of course tell you precisely what your lump sum payment would be . |
| 16 | All working systems , including those incorporating advanced technology of processes and process control , depend on skilled operators . |
| 17 | They depend on skilled workers , modern machinery and electric power , rather than on being near to raw materials , coal mines or markets . |
| 18 | In practice , however , this will be difficult because unlike formal organisation , which does not change even when individual employees move into and out of jobs ( by promotion , transfer , appointment , resignation or retirement etc ) most informal organisations depend on individual personalities . |
| 19 | Sentences that contain such expressions , and whose truth values therefore depend on certain facts about the context of utterance ( identity of speakers , addressees , indicated objects , places and times , etc. ) , are not of course in any way special or peculiar . |
| 20 | Species that depend on small numbers of prey species either require large hunting ranges ( Nilsson , 1984 ) or have to be nomadic , migrating in search of prey . |
| 21 | They depend on larger companies for a market niche , and often provide low-paid and insecure jobs . |
| 22 | IBM insiders get their equipment cheaper than customers who are sold new computers , but the insiders depend on older machines — proving once again that it 's the management and training , not the technology , that makes the difference between a winning system and a white elephant . |
| 23 | Many large firms have a matrix structure which is the most complex , since it is dependent on vertical and horizontal flows of authority and communication , as opposed to the divisional and functional structures which depend on vertical flows of authority and communication . |
| 24 | The standards of in-house production depend on several factors : |
| 25 | One possibility is that the infective hazard of aerosols containing legionellae depends on the survival and stability of the bacterium , which in turn depend on several factors related to the bacterium itself ( metabolic activity , effects of passage , and virulence of the strain ) and its relation with other micro-organisms , notably blue-green algae and amoebae . |
| 26 | Development can continue , but alongside conservation , so that those who depend on natural resources can continue to do so . |
| 27 | If representations depend on single units then changes in single cell electrical activity or overall metabolic activity can be fairly easily related to the function of the systems concerned ( Barlow 1985 ) . |
| 28 | Geoffrey , discussions about the Common Market , for example , tend to be carried out using rational arguments based on economics and legal principles , but do n't you think that at the deepest level international relations depend on national characteristics ? |
| 29 | Newco 's options depend on these factors , as well as on the time available and the financial strength of the vendor . |
| 30 | The local radio stations that broadcast ‘ community programmes ’ to cater for the cultural and socioeconomic needs of the minority community depend on these languages to make their services more accessible to them . |