Example sentences of "[noun sg] rest on the " in BNC.
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| 31 | For the careful and conscientious journalist or broadcaster , the legal meaning of " malice " provides vital protection for honest comment , the more so , because the burden of proving that malice was the dominant motive rests on the plaintiff . |
| 32 | This new confidence rests on the now widely held assumption that the Japanese government will do whatever it must to support share prices until company earnings rebound . |
| 33 | Inevitably the onus rests on the buyers and users to specify the products needed . |
| 34 | In all four theories attention rests on the " public " and accessible features of democratic political life to the detriment of any substantive and critical concern with the economy and with the non-democratic secret state that we will be exploring in Chapter 5 . |
| 35 | A striped sleeve rested on the desk . |
| 36 | As Nagel points out , the problem in understanding what it is like to be a bat rests on the difficulty of matching different subjectivities . |
| 37 | He went to sleep as he stood there , clutching his glass , his forehead resting on the windowpane . |
| 38 | And , miraculously , there was little resistance and I stared in disbelief as the great organ disappeared gloriously and wonderfully from sight I was right behind it with my arm , probing frantically away up to the shoulder as I rotated my wrist again and again till both uterine cornua were fully involuted Ben I was certain beyond doubt that everything was back in place I lay there for a few moments , my arm still deep inside the sow , my forehead resting on the floor . |
| 39 | Taff said sleepily as he stood up , then leaned over the side of the trench , his head resting on the grass . |
| 40 | She lay with her head resting on the inside of his thigh , and held his limp prick loosely between her tired lips . |
| 41 | Felicity was lying with her head resting on the back of her chair , gazing up at the ceiling , her long legs stretched across her desk . |
| 42 | After he 'd gone Sarella sat still for a few moments with her head resting on the chair-back . |
| 43 | Judy knew Brown Owl would be very cross if she saw Mandy on the other side of the fence — but she did n't have time to worry very long about that , for in a minute or two a loud , frightened scream shrilled from Mandy , who had stepped forward and bent to pick up the ball resting on the bright-green surface of the ground — and found herself up to her knees in treacherous , clinging slime . |
| 44 | Tom Fish looked back over his shoulder with a grin and a wink for his friends as his hand slid down the curve of her back to rest on the plump roundness of her buttocks . |
| 45 | ‘ The burden of the evidence rests on the other side to disprove whatever it is , and not on the other side to disprove the other side 's evidence . |
| 46 | The evidence rests on the behaviour of an English lorry-driver who regularly stayed in Johnstone . |
| 47 | His head rested on the pillow at an unusual angle , the chin tilted abnormally high , so that , from the foot of the bed , Richard was looking into the dark pits of his nostrils . |
| 48 | The counter-argument rests on the Bruges Group 's proposition that everything important is now decided in Brussels , and that Westminster has been reduced to the status of a rate-capped local authority . |
| 49 | The proposition linking external factors to workshop behaviour rested on the first three studies . |
| 50 | A naturalistic explanation of behaviour rests on the assumption that one can readily identify ‘ natural ’ ( or sometimes ‘ God-given ’ ) reasons for behaviour , such that , for example , it is ‘ only natural ’ that two people should fall in love , get married , live together , and raise a family . |
| 51 | The lamp rests on the manuscript so that enough light will fall on the corner of the sofa in which the man sits in the evening to read his paper . |
| 52 | That is , one side touched the ground and the other rested on the air , on nothing . |
| 53 | As with other documents which can be obtained at a large number of different places , the onus to show that the vehicle had a current test certificate rests on the defendant . |
| 54 | None the less the emperor decides against the hopeful beneficiary , and he asserts that his decision rests on the testator 's intention . |
| 55 | Since the settlement rested on the simultaneous destruction of both the great powers dominating central Europe — Germany and Russia — it was extremely unlikely to last once those nations rebuilt their military and economic strength . |
| 56 | Likewise , the lie will be wrong for you if the toe rests on the ground with the heel clear . |
| 57 | He believed in Jesus , and an essential part of his coming to faith rested on the exact correspondence he observed between what Jesus had said and what in fact had happened . |
| 58 | Sotheby 's case for being discharged from this hugely expensive and embarrassing case rested on the argument that it was merely the custodian of the treasure , was unaware that its export licences from the Lebanon had been fraudulently acquired , and that it had no further interest in the treasure . |
| 59 | Pleming said the government 's case rested on the plan to take topsoil from Oxleas Wood to nearby Woodlands Farm and plant trees there . |
| 60 | Although the planning of the cottage rested on the patriarchal assumption that it would house a male art lover , with perhaps a wife and certainly a ( female ) domestic to service it , Unwin displayed some unease about the status of such service , and thought that : " It is possible , though not easy , to introduce one helper into home life on equal terms , but very difficult indeed to do this with two " ( 1901 p66 ) . |