Example sentences of "[noun sg] rests on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your weight rests on the balls of your feet , not on the heels , so the calves are under tension . |
| 2 | By his recommendation he implies that a reasonable investigation has been made and that his recommendation rests on the conclusions based on that investigation . |
| 3 | Its whole future rests on the decision we take as a nation when we vote in the General Election on Thursday , ’ he said . |
| 4 | The success of any programme rests on the faculty 's enthusiasm and support . |
| 5 | For everyone , the lie is too upright if the club rests on the heel with the toe well off the ground . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 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 | Their view of management rests on the assumption that a consensus exists on values and priorities within the Service . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | His fame rests on the flurry of tracts he published in his last years , and little is known of his background . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Inevitably the onus rests on the buyers and users to specify the products needed . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | As Nagel points out , the problem in understanding what it is like to be a bat rests on the difficulty of matching different subjectivities . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | The evidence rests on the behaviour of an English lorry-driver who regularly stayed in Johnstone . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | None the less the emperor decides against the hopeful beneficiary , and he asserts that his decision rests on the testator 's intention . |
| 23 | Likewise , the lie will be wrong for you if the toe rests on the ground with the heel clear . |
| 24 | A situation like this continues only at the peril of all of us , and a heavy responsibility rests on the new TECs to set it right . |
| 25 | A business bargain or contract rests on the basic proposition that each party to the contract is in agreement . |
| 26 | ‘ Our only hope rests on the off-chance that God does exist . ’ |
| 27 | Nozick 's case rests on the view that so long as one is not acting for the reason that one 's action will favour one of the parties or hinder the other , but for a valid independent reason , then one 's neutrality is intact . |
| 28 | FoE 's case rests on the fact that levels are above the standards laid down by the European Commission . |
| 29 | The case for foot rests on the presumed equivalence of contrast between foot and query , in 17 : |
| 30 | If there is a common theme to liberal political theorizing on authority , it is that the legitimacy of authority rests on the duty to support and uphold just institutions , as , following Rawls , the duty is now usually called . |