Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] rest on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Likewise , the lie will be wrong for you if the toe rests on the ground with the heel clear . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | The light rested on the last of these for some while , then moved upward , searching the end wall . |
| 5 | The load forces were taken by the centre hole in the wheel resting on the flange on the end of the axle . |
| 6 | For everyone , the lie is too upright if the club rests on the heel with the toe well off the ground . |
| 7 | [ 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 . |
| 8 | The microphone rested on the window ledge . |
| 9 | Inevitably the onus rests on the buyers and users to specify the products needed . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | That is , one side touched the ground and the other rested on the air , on nothing . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | The evidence rests on the behaviour of an English lorry-driver who regularly stayed in Johnstone . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The argument rests on the assumption that the number of volatile-rich bodies that would be captured by a planet after it has accreted is roughly in proportion to the mass of the planet . |
| 17 | The blinds were drawn to darken our downstairs room where the coffin rested on the table in front of the range . |
| 18 | Furthermore , the empirical base of the theory rests on the Kohlberg moral judgement scale . |
| 19 | The flames seemed to burn brighter in her presence , illuminating her finely etched profile and the hand resting on the stone wall beside her . |
| 20 | The persuasion rests on the assumptions that the forms of consultation practised and of participation prompted by the best employers are a measure of industrial democracy , but not enough : that the representation of employees on company boards is necessary to establish complete industrial democracy ; that total industrial democracy , in this prescription , will so far improve industrial efficiency as to benefit materially the general interest ; and that the implicit loss or diminution of the rights of ownership should not be allowed to preclude the realisation of that benefit . |
| 21 | But there are no workmen available to dig and pick the necessary hole through the bus platform , tar mac , gas pipes and hard core to allow this ecological flow so the matter rests on the bus platform — and keep fit classes are hastily arranged with coughed |
| 22 | Speaking at an Association of Water Officers conference in London , he said he realised the credibility of the agency rested on the resources at its disposal . |
| 23 | Basically , the projected dichotomy of the model rests on the assumption that every society recognizes a distinction between culture and nature , with ritual being the outer manifestation or expression of this recognition and representing culture 's need to regulate and control the passive functioning of its opposite , nature — ‘ nature ’ itself , of course , being a construct of ‘ culture ’ . |
| 24 | The doctrine rested on the assumption that the country had no natural enemies and advanced no territorial claims on its neighbours . |
| 25 | Here the problem rests on the fact that for orthodox Marxism there can be only one ‘ other ’ , that of the working class , into which all other oppressed groups , so-called ‘ minorities ’ , must in the last instance be subsumed . |
| 26 | For the same article the journalist evidently failed to get any juicy quotes from his present wife and despite the misleading by-line By his two wives , the material rests on the words of a named ‘ neighbour in the tiny close of council houses ’ , who incidentally provides no information on his sex life but on his lack of neighbourliness : ‘ He was not very neighbourly — he would always try to avoid speaking … ’ |
| 27 | As Nagel points out , the problem in understanding what it is like to be a bat rests on the difficulty of matching different subjectivities . |
| 28 | Following the meeting FMLN leader Shafik Handal stated that the basis for a ceasefire rested on the " democratization of the country " and " the restructuring of the armed forces and judicial reforms " . |