Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] rest on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | JOHN MAJOR 'S hope of a Commons victory on the Maastricht Treaty rested on the votes of as few as four rebel MPs last night . |
| 3 | The Crisis and Truce Model rests on the assumption that the difficulty of management today is in finding an opportunity to use authority . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The significance to the creditors of the form of business organization rests on the issue of limited liability ( see p. 28 ) . |
| 6 | His index finger rested on the inbuilt voltage control . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A second objection is that stratification theory rests on the assumption of a ‘ normal ’ unit of male , female and child/children in which the father is the breadwinner . |
| 9 | The inner game approach rests on the belief that the correct technique can and does develop naturally and painlessly given the opportunity and the right environment . |
| 10 | In some cars , child seats with integral harnesses can not be tightly using the adult seat belt , often because the seat belt buckle rests on the frame of the child seat . |
| 11 | Psychological theories ' second area of gender bias rests on the associations psychology makes between the consistency and completeness of good theory , and discourses of masculinity . |
| 12 | Chandra Shekhar 's minority government rested on the support of Congress — support which Mr Gandhi then chose to withdraw , thus bringing about the present election . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The great powers , America , Britain and Russia , dominated the peace-making process and hopes for world peace rested on the global UN . |
| 15 | We have already described three ultrastructural patterns of contact between Helicobacter pylori ( H pylori ) and gastric epithelium : ( 1 ) H pylori in the mucus layer resting on the short microvilli of normal looking epithelial cells ; ( 2 ) H pylori at intercellular junctions ; ( 3 ) H pylori adherent at specific junction zones directly or with filamentous appendages anchoring the organisms to an epithelial surface , which has fewer microvilli and mucoid granules in the absence of a mucus layer . |
| 16 | Officers from Stephen 's Wiltshire-based squadron provided a guard of honour and the bearers party carried his Union Jack draped coffin with his RAF cap resting on the top . |
| 17 | There is a bull ring , now secured in a stone block resting on the verge near the church , which is a reminder of the baiting which entertained our ancestors , and a sun-dial strangely set into the top of a small upright coffin-shaped stone in the churchyard . |
| 18 | The proposition linking external factors to workshop behaviour rested on the first three studies . |