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

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1 The order of feeding depends on the stoutness of bill .
2 The extent of inequality depends on the variation in N and , magnified by the serial correlation induced by al in the former case , but moderated by the term .
3 The extent of losses from punishment of course depends on the form of punishment adopted ( we consider the question of the credibility of this punishment below , here we examine only its extent ) .
4 ‘ I plan to appeal the decision and if necessary take the case to the European Court of Justice , ’ Parsons says , ‘ It is a moral issue : ECT 's mode of action depends on the damage it causes to the brain . ’
5 Therefore , the degree to which official statistics underestimate the actual level of crime depends on the particular category of crime .
6 Consumption will rise in period t+4 : But investment will start to fall because , according to the accelerator , the level of investment depends on the change in income ( which has now begun to decrease ) : So , after rising from periods t to t + 3 , income has now stayed the same from period t + 3 to t + 4 .
7 The success of Compact depends on the provision of high quality jobs and worthwhile training .
8 The path of the edge of totality depends on the precise geometrical alignment of the Sun , Moon and Earth at the 1976 ( visible from Australia ) and 1979 ( watched by hundreds of amateur astronomers across North America ) .
9 The kind of vocabulary depends on the person speaking .
10 In particular , the cost of bankruptcy depends on the legal and institutional framework for handling it .
11 In the long run , the replacement or growth of population depends on the number of women who go on to have third or further babies .
12 Within this residue , which now totals about 40 hours out of the 168 hours in a week , the detailed choice of leisure depends on the availability of three further resources , money , space and facilities , and also of course personal preference as shown in Figure 7.1 .
13 In studying style , we have to select what aspects of language matter , and the principle of selection depends on the purpose we have in mind .
14 It fills all the interconnected voids , and the volume of water depends on the porosity and permeability of the rock .
15 Even when increased authenticity might be judged to be desirable on motivational grounds , one is faced with the problem that the process of learning depends on the recognition of underlying regularities , on the identification of salient and essential features from all the accidental complexities of actual behaviour .
16 The rate of movement depends on the amount the particles are charged .
17 Animals that feed on static food have to move around to find it ; and , as we shall see , the best course of movement depends on the distribution of the food items in space .
18 The method of saving depends on the nature of your graphs , and using the most appropriate way will reduce the amount of repetitive work .
19 As one senior British civil servant once put it : Such a view of democracy depends on the existence of political institutions capable of exacting that responsiveness and exercising that control .
20 Loss of bitterness depends on the boiling conditions , on the degree , type and time of trub formation and on the yeast action in fermentation .
21 Starting from a disequilibrium perspective , the accumulation of capital depends on the specification of ex ante investment and savings functions and the mechanism by which they are brought into equilibrium ( this being the kernel of the instability problem posed by the Harrod model ) .
22 The measurement of frequency depends on the existence of a clearly articulated set of linguistic and stylistic categories .
23 ( c ) That , ultimately , the validity of legislation depends on the rules of recognition employed by our judges .
24 We have seen how the phenomenon of interference depends on the collaborative reinforcement or cancellation of two trains of waves .
25 For the psychiatrist , the diagnosis of schizophrenia depends on the presence of a number of characteristic symptoms .
26 Their rate of discount depends on the financial status of the two companies .
27 Here Marx and Engels decided that the understanding of man depends on the understanding of men in society and history , not on understanding philosophical controversy Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations , 1857–8 The next work of Marx and Engels , after The German Ideology , to discuss the history of human society was The Communist Manifesto of 1848 .
28 The rate of profit depends on the output-capital ratio as well as on the share of profits ( chapter 8 ) .
29 The onward flow of music depends on the fulfilment of expectancy , on the recall of a note shape or rhythm which is already familiar .
30 Where the disclosure is made in confidence by a child victim to his solicitor , the solicitor 's entitlement to breach his duty of confidentiality depends on the child 's degree of maturity .
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