Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] depends on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tragedy 's specific effect depends on the interaction of its two components , the Apolline drama and the Dionysiac music . |
| 2 | Since the total phase resistance is 20 ohms : Freewheeling resistance = 20 ohms The power rating of this freewheeling resistance depends on the operating speed of the motor . |
| 3 | The accelerator is such that induced investment depends on the difference between national income in the last period and national income in the period before that . |
| 4 | Sexual selection depends on the success of certain individuals over others of the same sex in relation to the propagation of the species ; whilst natural selection depends on the success of both sexes , at all ages , in relation to the general conditions of life . |
| 5 | Darwin 's argument emphasized that sexual selection depends on the ‘ success of certain individuals over others of the same sex in relation to the propagation of the species ’ . |
| 6 | The future of British Coal depends on the results of the next general election in a few months ' time , and I do not think that any hon. Member or the Minister would refute that . |
| 7 | The idea that society is entitled to take whatever steps may be considered necessary to ensure that companies serve the public interest depends on the theory that the only basis on which companies can be allowed to possess power , which effectively means the only basis on which large companies can be allowed to exist , is that they produce consequences beneficial to society . |
| 8 | Whatever action can be taken against censorship at an institutional or individual level depends on the firmness and strength of the profession 's stated position , and that requires an examination of views , role and actions of the professional association , namely the Library Association , in response to censorship . |
| 9 | ( c ) The degree of personal responsibility depends on the circumstances . |
| 10 | His future freedom depends on the political will to act ; the political will to act depends on public pressure ; yet there 's still a strange and deeply distasteful , unsympathetic undercurrent . |
| 11 | This entire case depends on the assumption that the trust to set up a building in the town will be enforced in specie , The plea that payment should be allowed instead is ignored : the town has a greater interest in acquiring a ready-made building than in constructing or commissioning one itself . |
| 12 | Thus , the ‘ dark figure ’ of unrecorded crime depends on the sort of offences that are considered , and if different groups of offence categories are examined , different ratios will be found . |
| 13 | For another , the overall effect depends on the relative importance of income and other motives as determinants of management behaviour : a positive relationship between income and profitability may not counteract a growth motive inspired by a quest for prestige or security . |
| 14 | But their witty performance depends on the soloist 's own attitude to the fun . |
| 15 | In addition , note that the position of the inflation-unemployment curve depends on the natural unemployment percentage since , as shown in Fig. 6.8 , the rate of inflation is equal to h at the NUP . |
| 16 | For a chain molecule composed of a large number of segments , movement of the complete molecule depends on the co-operative movement of all the segments , and as stress-relaxation depends on the number of ways the molecule can regain its most probable conformation , each possible co-ordinated movement is treated as a mode of motion with a characteristic relaxation time . |
| 17 | Throughout our Report we stressed that the success of the National Curriculum depends on the professional abilities of teachers . |
| 18 | It also seems inescapable that , however much conscious experience depends on the orderly biochemical working of the body , consciousness is itself outside the ordinary material concepts of matter and energy . |
| 19 | It therefore appears that this unusual cleavage depends on the precise structure of the cleavage site . |
| 20 | The rate of thermal escape depends on the temperature of the exosphere and on the gravitational field . |
| 21 | The degree of sharing of domestic work depends on the amount of paid work taken on by the wife and the stage reached in the family life cycle . |
| 22 | A more specific histological test depends on the use of conjugates of a chitinase with fluorescent dyestuffs ( Benjaminson , 1969 ) . |
| 23 | Sexual selection depends on the success of certain individuals over others of the same sex in relation to the propagation of the species ; whilst natural selection depends on the success of both sexes , at all ages , in relation to the general conditions of life . |
| 24 | Suffice it to say that the exact method depends on the machine . |
| 25 | There 's always some damage to the tissues , although the extent of the bruised area depends on the position of the assailant and victim , the way in which the neck is grasped as well as the degree of pressure . |
| 26 | A master of spontaneous oratory , Asimov could hold forth on almost any subject with brilliant lucidity — as in his much-cited off-the-cuff description of how human life depends on the Sun : ‘ All of us are living in the light and warmth of a huge hydrogen bomb , 860,000 miles across and 93 million miles away , which is in a state of continuous explosion . ’ |
| 27 | A great deal of human communication depends on the use of language . |
| 28 | It appears that the error introduced by the conventional assumption depends on the extent of differences in factor intensities across sectors . |
| 29 | Thus , the decision as to whether a file takes up more space in serial or inverted form depends on the ratio of the size of the key and the data items . |
| 30 | The exact amount depends on the quality of resolution with which the images are rendered . |