Example sentences of "[noun sg] rest on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Level with a long board resting on the strips |
| 2 | The load forces were taken by the centre hole in the wheel resting on the flange on the end of the axle . |
| 3 | The student begins with his right foot forward , with most of his weight resting on the left leg . |
| 4 | The light rested on the last of these for some while , then moved upward , searching the end wall . |
| 5 | Her neck rested on the top curve of the seat and this lifted her mouth as if for kissing . |
| 6 | That the surface of a rotating earth would experience a great wind rested on the assumption that the air could not rotate with the earth . |
| 7 | Your weight rests on the balls of your feet , not on the heels , so the calves are under tension . |
| 8 | More generally , civilisation rested on the repression of instinctive urges . |
| 9 | By his recommendation he implies that a reasonable investigation has been made and that his recommendation rests on the conclusions based on that investigation . |
| 10 | The success of any bombing sortie rested on the map reading ability of the bomb aimer who had to pick out relatively insignificant and optically difficult land features to use as navigation datum points . |
| 11 | The family had changed , and its various functions of education , food production , and the manufacture of clothing were already in part relinquished to a variety of institutions whose smooth functioning rested on the intervention and guidance of the nation state . |
| 12 | Its whole future rests on the decision we take as a nation when we vote in the General Election on Thursday , ’ he said . |
| 13 | The success of any programme rests on the faculty 's enthusiasm and support . |
| 14 | For everyone , the lie is too upright if the club rests on the heel with the toe well off the ground . |
| 15 | There was a half-full glass of pale sherry standing beside the notepad and pen resting on the arm of the heavy leather chair . |
| 16 | Above these is an intermediate breakdown zone resting on the sands and related to a major roof collapse , followed by several bedded sequences of breccias in which most of the fossils occur . |
| 17 | From Madras my wife and I were taken to see the Shore Temples at Mahabalipuram and beside this is ( or was ) a very large boulder resting on the hillside . |
| 18 | Influence rested on the various branches of the family 's directly controlling around one quarter of the total land area . |
| 19 | This is especially the case with the liberal democratic form of the state whose claim to legitimacy rests on the access to the political system which it grants to non-dominant interests . |
| 20 | Although individual consent was of central importance to Hobbes , he did not believe that the authority of law rested on the fact that it promoted a desirable objective or that it reflected a profound truth . |
| 21 | [ Dombey and Son , Ch 16 ] The artlessness of the child 's mind is reflected partly in the repetitions " watching it and watching everything " and " deepen , deepen , deepen " ; in the use of common words , especially those with monosyllabic stems : " he thought how the long streets were dotted with lamps " , " and now he thought how black it was " ; and in the way the cohesion of the passage rests on the subject pronoun he and the conjunction and . |
| 22 | Their view of management rests on the assumption that a consensus exists on values and priorities within the Service . |
| 23 | Mr Hellyer 's gaze rested on the boy 's bleached head . |
| 24 | The great powers , America , Britain and Russia , dominated the peace-making process and hopes for world peace rested on the global UN . |
| 25 | With my cheek resting on the worn linoleum things came back into focus almost at once . |
| 26 | Each girl sat on her three-legged stool as she milked , her right cheek resting on the cow 's body , watching Tess arrive . |
| 27 | She sighed , her pale brow resting on the fingertips of the ringed hand . |
| 28 | By far the most famous of these clerical judges is Henry Bracton : he died in 1268 as chancellor of Exeter cathedral , but he had served in the meanwhile as a justice in eyre , a judge on assize , and from 1248 to 1257 on the King 's Bench and on the king 's council ; his fame rests on the fact that not only was he the foremost jurist of his age and possessed of an extensive and precise knowledge of Roman law but he was also credited with the authorship of The Laws and Customs of England which became — in the words of Dorothy Stenton — ‘ the Bible of the coming legal generation ’ . |
| 29 | His fame rests on the flurry of tracts he published in his last years , and little is known of his background . |
| 30 | The microphone rested on the window ledge . |