Example sentences of "[vb base] to rest on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plans for global communications now often seem to rest on the semantics of international standards . |
| 2 | At a time when plans for global communications seem to rest on the semantics of international standards , Greg Grant looks back to the Victorian adventurers who conquered nature to put a communication girdle around the world . |
| 3 | Moreover , because depression , inflation , or other economic distress can bring down a government , and because jobs , prices , production , the standard of living , and the economic security of everyone , all tend to rest on the performance of business , politicians and administrators alike have to regard business as more than just another interest group . |
| 4 | They 've earned success on the back of prudent and adequate investment in a high skill level — the factor which decides above all else where you come to rest on the continuum from the under-developed third world economies , to the high performing advanced nations . |
| 5 | If you throw a dead bird into the air it will describe a graceful parabola , exactly as physics books say it should , then come to rest on the ground and stay there . |
| 6 | But if you throw a live bird in the air it will not describe a parabola and come to rest on the ground . |