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

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1 Eligibility for Legal Aid depends on your income and savings , and on the merits of your case .
2 Generally , whether computer records fall under this rule depends on the information contained within the record and the purpose for using such information as evidence .
3 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 .
4 Tragedy 's specific effect depends on the interaction of its two components , the Apolline drama and the Dionysiac music .
5 If and , the coefficient of variation is increasing in var , the effect depends on the relative coefficients of variation in N and Β , allowing for the serial correlation factor in the former case .
6 The effect depends on the symmetry of the coordination environment .
7 Another means of explaining the ‘ flypaper ’ effect depends on the assumption of fiscal illusion .
8 Like all other paving materials gravel depends on its foundations for its efficiency .
9 In many households the modern standard of living depends on married women finding jobs , often in service occupations , on a scale much greater than in the previous generation .
10 To what extent its reproductive strategies emphasize such altruism depends on the pay-off of such strategies in terms of inclusive fitness .
11 The impact of accumulation on demand for labour depends on its form as well as its extent .
12 Here we show that the proliferation of oligodendrocyte precursor cells in the developing rat optic nerve depends on electrical activity in neighbouring axons , and that this activity-dependence can be circumvented by experimentally increasing the concentration of platelet-derived growth factor , which is present in the optic nerve and stimulates these cells to proliferate in culture .
13 For some species , the width of each ring depends on prevailing climatic conditions , such as temperature and rainfall .
14 And even continued tedium depends on two cosy assumptions .
15 What is required is the education and assistance of users if their research depends on access to a multiplicity of databases and catalogues , to understand the construction of electronic catalogues , their associated approaches to subject indexing and cataloguing .
16 Shedding surplus weight depends on providing your body with fewer calories than it needs to keep going .
17 Third , much of the construction industry depends on formal companies subcontracting at least half of a total work programme to informals , many of whom in turn use tools produced by other jua kali artisans .
18 Despite the bloodcurdling anti-western rhetoric of the Libyan leader , Colonel Gaddafi , he knows that his oil industry depends on foreigners , including Americans .
19 The Libyan oil industry depends on thousands of foreign experts , including Britons and Americans , and they seem to be content to stay .
20 The industry depends on the skills of 12 000 workers , who compete with factories in more suitable places , mainly in Yorkshire and abroad , by producing high quality knitted goods , hosiery and tweed .
21 The success of Compact depends on the provision of high quality jobs and worthwhile training .
22 Any relocation depends on a detailed cost/benefit analysis being carried out to ensure that the exercise is truly worthwhile .
23 The lucidity or obscurity of the result depends on the composer 's aesthetic ideals .
24 The level of investment depends on business people 's expectations of the future level of demand , but it has been demonstrated that there is an inherent instability in the economy .
25 ‘ Film stars , sports stars — everyone in businesses where heavy investment depends on the health of one person — know that a regular medical check is considered a reasonable — and professional — precaution . ’
26 As the future of manufacturing investment depends on confidence in future economic performance , does my right hon. Friend think that anyone contemplating what will happen to his income will feel more confident if he is threatened with slow torture rather than immediate amputation ?
27 My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer said that the success of inward investment depends on availability of markets .
28 So the level of investment depends on expectations about future profitability .
29 Finally , we turn our attention to the determination of investment and outline the views that investment depends on : ( a ) the rate of interest ; and ( b ) changes in national income ( that is , the so-called ‘ accelerator ’ theory ) .
30 According to the ‘ accelerator ’ theory , the level of current net investment depends on past income changes .
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