Example sentences of "depend [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Old Testament kings had been initiated with unction ; and in any case the Carolingians , unlike their Merovingian predecessors amongst the Franks , could not depend for their sacrality upon a long royal genealogy stretching back into the past . |
| 2 | Other changes , such as experimenting with the creation of single-sex mathematics classes in a mixed school , are less straightforward and would depend for their success on the particular context of each individual school , and especially the reasons for employing this strategy . |
| 3 | Large-scale expectations may depend for their realization on changes in society and its value patterns . |
| 4 | But of course the pluralist view does not depend for its plausibility upon , nor has it usually been related to , the evidence from stateless societies . |
| 5 | And the electorate 's view of the Conservative Party would depend upon its success in creating a Defence policy that was perceived to give reasonable security at lower cost . |
| 6 | In some cases cultivation maintains a good soil structure , while in others it may break it down , and what constitutes a ‘ good ’ soil structure may depend upon its mineral composition and upon the use to which it is put . |
| 7 | But the range of each species was also limited by factors that did not depend upon its habitat , and which were related to the existence of distinct geographical provinces . |
| 8 | A station 's status in Africa would depend upon its proximity to a European community or a white plantation area . |
| 9 | The attitude that the United Kingdom Government will take to that directive will depend upon its final form . |
| 10 | Its continued success during the 1990s will depend upon its ability to maintain the distinctive built form and environment that makes it so attractive to international business decision-makers . |
| 11 | The Defence Department also proposed a possible reduction to a level of 150,000 of US troops stationed in Europe over the five years to 1995 , provided that the Warsaw Pact reciprocated and on the assumption that the Soviet Union could no longer depend upon its Warsaw Pact allies to support any military action it may take . |
| 12 | It is further necessary that the chances of a given cloud 's surviving and spawning copies should depend upon its shape . |
| 13 | While the same level of benefit may be claimed by the household , the wife must depend upon her husband for her share of it . |
| 14 | Although decisions in this type of case will very much depend upon their own facts , it is not easy to reconcile some of the more recent cases with the principles enunciated in Reg. v. Heston-Francois and Reg. v. Derby Crown Court , Ex parte Brooks , 80 Cr.App.R. 164 . |
| 15 | This power is not necessarily dependent upon their personal qualities and nor will it depend upon their control of information or their expertise . |
| 16 | Final acceptance by the customer of the work done , and payment for it , will depend upon their provisions being demonstrably met . |
| 17 | The extent t–which each is successful will depend upon their negotiating skills and the balance of power between the parties . |
| 18 | The answer will depend upon your definition of ‘ best ’ , of course , but some of the decisions you will have to make are listed below . |
| 19 | The amount of each encashment will depend upon your age at that time and the amount of life assurance . |
| 20 | The number of books needed will depend upon your height and the amount of curvature in your spine . |
| 21 | How you do this will depend upon your own personality and your relationship with her , but however it is done , the message she will be hoping to receive through your words and actions will be that you care , you sympathise , and that you are going to stand by her and give her all the help and comfort you can in the months that lie ahead . |
| 22 | My eventual decision may very well depend upon your behaviour over the next few weeks . |
| 23 | That would depend upon your knee joints would n't it ? |
| 24 | I still reserve the right at any time to doubt the solutions furnished by the modulor , keeping intact my freedom which must depend upon my feelings rather than my reason . |
| 25 | A smallholder , by virtue of his small scale , may often be able to farm successfully in a manner defying the commercial conventions of the district , but such success will depend upon his grasp of the principles of soils , crops , and animal husbandry and a wise assessment of his land potential . |
| 26 | The letter had not been answered , and the Laird of Gartmore took offence , declaring ‘ that if he did not get such trifles to oblige his friends that they might depend upon his going against them ’ . |
| 27 | Which format a participant should choose will depend upon his or her career stage , work situation and individual learning style . |
| 28 | The point at which we receive these signals will of course depend upon the size and shape of our internal glasses , that is , it will depend upon our own physiological make-up — our individual capacity for stress . |
| 29 | Finally , to the extent that political authority is justified by its ability to co-ordinate the activities of large populations , the vindication of its claim to authority over any one individual may depend on its having legitimate authority over the population at large . |
| 30 | The resistance of intact endothelium to platelet aggregation does not solely depend on its ability to synthesize prostacyclin as has been discussed previously . |