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

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1 How much this matters in practice depends on the significance that levels of attainment come to acquire in the grouping of children within and between schools , and in the perceptions of pupils by their teachers .
2 It is also significant that the oddness of 9a can be reduced by modifying table semantically : The table with the electronic eye saw Arthur ( we know that it is the meaning of the modifying phrase which is important because the reduction in oddness depends on the open set items the phrase contains — compare The table with the melamine top saw Arthur ) ; no similar modification of bake in 11a , or table in 12a , can reduce the degree of deviance of these sentences .
3 Where endowments and factor returns are fixed , the effect of a change in taxation depends on the relative importance of capital and earned income , on the dispersion of these two components and on the extent to which a high capital endowment is correlated with high earning capacity .
4 Whether the life sentence is regarded as a sufficient denunciation in society depends on the public 's perception of what life imprisonment means : if it is widely believed that it results in an average of nine years ' imprisonment , the effect will be somewhat blunted .
5 Culture in man depends on the development of psychological traits not found in other primates .
6 Animal life in turn depends on the nature of the vegetation , and on the climate .
7 This in turn depends on the state of charge of the battery .
8 This in turn depends on the price of the tickets , the size of the prizes and whether these are taxable or not , all details which are not laid down in the Bill .
9 The ease with which one can learn a concept depends critically on the structure of the predicate p , which in turn depends on the description language .
10 This in turn depends on the relevance it has , how important it is to them not to get pregnant , and how easy emotionally and practically it is to go somewhere and ask for it .
11 This in turn depends on the chemicals already in the cell , which depends partly on which genes have previously been read in the cell , and partly on neighbouring cells .
12 In the case of the capital tax , the long-run incidence is critically determined by how the tax affects aggregate savings , and this in turn depends on the particular assumptions concerning the determinants of savings within the economy .
13 This in turn depends on the amount and quality of work done by the client , or on his or her behalf , before and during construction .
14 This ratio in turn depends on the relative rate of growth of capital employed and of output produced .
15 The length of time spent in hospital depends on the method used , but it can be as little as one day .
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