Example sentences of "depend on the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Would the cost of care depend on the serum sodium concentration ?
2 Nonetheless , when they 're there , living in , the nice little brown envelope with the weekly giro cheque arrives in their name ; and when they go the authorities depend on the dependents to pay off the debts .
3 Altogether none of these changes really recognise that the majority of families depend on the earnings of both husband and wife , even if the wife 's contribution in most instances is smaller .
4 However , the present winds on Venus are acting to increase the retrograde rate of spin , and thus the present rotation of Venus may be a balance between the tidal forces , which depend on the Sun 's gravitational field , and the winds , which depend on solar radiation .
5 There are of course other mechanisms for replacing mosquito populations which depend on the hybrid resulting from the mating between released insect and the natural ( wild ) one being sterile or partially so .
6 Some people depend on the land for their income .
7 He does not hazard any opinions on how costs depend on the complexity of the service !
8 Here , the outputs depend on the states they had previously that is , Q = 1 , if S was 1 previously .
9 The effects of the processes of subaerial and marine denudation described in earlier chapters depend on the influence of base level , which is usually sea level .
10 ‘ And we have to remember that many young people locally depend on the building trade for work . ’
11 If the council is amending an adopted plan it will , as with structure plans , depend on the relevance of either plan to the current facts in the locality .
12 ( Often refers to persons in the age group between puberty and young adulthood , that is about 14–17 years or some similar period in the teens ; the limits of which depend on the timing of puberty and adulthood in a particular population ) .
13 Each of these may represent an opportunity or an obstacle to a group , and how well the group comes to terms with these constraints will , in turn , depend on the level of motivation possessed by the members , and on the degree to which they are able to work together .
14 It is also important to remember that upper safety limits depend on the person concerned .
15 The details of the patterns depend on the magnitude of the advantage accruing to defectors ( the value of b ) , but a wide range of values leads to chaotic patterns , whose nature is almost always independent of the initial proportions of C and D. We believe that deterministically generated spatial structure within populations may often be crucial for the evolution of cooperation , whether it be among molecules , cells or organisms .
16 Indebted countries ' options depend on the magnitude of the debt , who lent the money in the first place , and on what terms .
17 It is no accident that the intellectual defence of modern capitalism and the major contemporary expression of socialism , namely Marxism , both depend on the assumptions of the Enlightenment and date from that period .
18 The exact details are negotiable and depend on the circumstances of each deal .
19 The remedies available to the consumer depend on the circumstances of the breach .
20 Both of these depend on the capacity of organisms to integrate previously separated functions through the imposition of a superordinate system relating its subordinate parts ; and this requires the open transfer of information between those parts .
21 Military adventures abroad that extend for any length of time depend on the legislature being willing to provide the necessary funding and the Senate 's approval of treaties can , by no means be taken for granted .
22 Do local authorities appreciate the extent to which the existence and content of school health education policies depend on the existence and content of local authority documents ?
23 Ogden and Richards , in contrast , stress that words are used to ‘ point to ’ things , and that their meaning does in the last analysis depend on the things they are used to point to , their referents ; language may be different from reality , therefore , but it nonetheless reflects it .
24 But the real reason is almost certainly the devastating impact which selling the pots-and-pans business could have on Corning and other small towns that depend on the company for their prosperity .
25 This practice , borrowed from the United States , recognises that until shares are issued they confer no rights at all , and that the rights ultimately attached to them depend on the company 's decision at the time when they are issued .
26 Operational standards in the industry depend on the competence and integrity of managers .
27 Those actually selected depend on the type of price .
28 Endothelial cells express many proteoglycans , whose structure and density depend on the type of endothelium and its activation status .
29 A framework for interpreting memory results for complex stimuli was discussed in the introduction , this was the idea that memory results depend on the type of schema subjects previously held for a situation .
30 The relative proportions of , and ; addition in polybutadienes can be ascertained by making use of the differences in absorption between ( CH ) out of plane bending vibrations , which depend on the type of substitution at the olefinic bond .
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