reliant

Preposition: on

• goodwill: Project GOLD, therefore, was not embedded and was totally reliant on the goodwill of both students and tutors.
• generosity: We are reliant on the generosity of our members to help us fund this work.
• donation: We don't receive any government funding, and are totally reliant on donations and fundraising events for our income.
• import: This is not a surprise: US manufacturing industry is heavily reliant on imports.
• agriculture: Cases of child abandonment here are high due to an economy reliant on agriculture.
• tourism: Krakow is a small city reliant on tourism rather than industry.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• become: A natural countryside that works together where man, horse, hound, wildlife, including foxes all become self reliant on each other.
• make: So making health care reliant on charges is not a road we will take.

Modifying Another Word

• heavily: The UK is heavily reliant on our trading partners coming out of recession, of which there is no clear sign to date.
• overly: Over the year, the Bolam test sustained significant criticism for being overly reliant on medical testimony.
• totally: Mr Pointon was now totally reliant on others for his needs to be met.
• increasingly: They are also increasingly reliant upon various forms of credit in order to survive an average three year course.
• solely: Better than Leicester University, which is solely reliant on BIDS.
• wholly: Usage tips When you're on the road you're going to be wholly reliant on your battery powering the laptop.

Used with adjective complement

• become: On current trends, they, too, would become reliant on means-tested benefits in the future.
• remain: Consequently, China will remain reliant on the security of sea lanes.
• grow: Over recent years libraries have grown increasingly reliant on digital materials.
• get: I'm just concerned I'll get reliant on them?

Preposition: upon

• generosity: It is completely reliant upon the generosity of donors.
• support: The Chancellor and the Cabinet answered to the Reichstag, so they were reliant upon the continued support of the majority of deputies.