The phrase "a dependent on" is not correct in standard English usage.
You can use "dependent on" to express reliance or need for something, but it should not be preceded by "a."
Example: "She is dependent on her parents for financial support."
Alternatives: "a reliance on" or "a need for."
An aggravation factor, F A, dependent on the location of the earthquake source and on the geology/lithology of the soil was also introduced.
Becoming a dependent on a spouse's plan is one of the main channels to private health insurance coverage.
Once she got to the Bronx, as a single mother, she also took risks that don't, from the outside, look like smart ones: claiming a friend's child as a dependent on her own tax returns; understating her income to keep public housing; depositing or allowing others to deposit questionable amounts of cash into her bank account; paying bills to multiple cell-phone companies.
Whether your parents claim you as a dependent on their return adds another wrinkle.
"Are you claimed as a dependent on your parents' income tax return?" the site asks.
When Morgan enrolled at Dartmouth College, Mr. Lunt stopped claiming him as a dependent on his tax return, enabling Morgan to qualify for a Hope Scholarship credit on his own return.
Analysis shows that the effective acceptance half-angle (θea) of CPC-A, dependent on plane mirror's number (N) and geometry of CPC based on which CPC-A is designed, is always less than the acceptance half-angle (θa) of CPC but gradually close to θa with the increase of N, and the optical efficiency of both CPC-A and CPC is almost identical for solar radiation withinθea.
She had gone from being a trailblazer to a burden, dependent on a man who no longer loved her.
"I became a man, dependent on no one but myself".
Speaking in precise British-inflected English, he said: "This is not a piece dependent on a plot.
Somehow, the Ronald Reagan references and a plot dependent on a world without mobile phones fail to date it.
