Example sentences of "it rests [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any policy which aims at exorcising envy and the concomitant sense of guilt — the reason why so many intellectually eminent individuals are attracted to levelling doctrines , because they aspire to purge the sense of guilt to which eminence itself is prone — by measures of social or economic equalisation is foredoomed to failure , because it rests on the false presumption that envy and envy-guilt exist only because they are ‘ justified ’ , because the materials exist on which they feed . |
| 2 | Its theoretical weaknesses are implicit in the fact that it rests on the vague and easily manipulated notion of consent . |
| 3 | However , as it diverts resources from historical and current expenditure items and therefore continuing provision , it is essential that it rests on the establishment of carefully planned priorities which are important to the school 's development . |
| 4 | Local Management of Schools rests on three principles : equal funding , freedom of choice and economy ; it rests on the hypothesis that the quality of education will rise if : |
| 5 | The argument does not depend at all on demand growth : it rests on the view that to invest in Sizewell to replace old , but not necessarily worn out , plant will actually cheapen the provision of the same amount of electricity . |
| 6 | ‘ I know canon law and I also know that it rests on the justice of God . |
| 7 | Lewis sees this as a sort of snobbism because it rests on the uncritical acceptance of the notion that our contemporary culture and intellectual ideas are superior to the past simply because they are new . |
| 8 | Now , with gentle pressure , move the lace carriage across to the right , push the knitting until it rests on the left of the main carriage . |
| 9 | This view , as we shall see , has been attacked on the grounds that it rests on the false assumption that the distinction between adults and children is identical with the distinction between rational and non-rational beings . |
| 10 | The west Antarctic ice sheet is more vulnerable than the ten-times-larger east Antarctic ice sheet because it rests on the ocean floor rather than on land . |
| 11 | It rests on the assumption that it is possible to produce large quantities of almost identical items in a modem industrial process , and therefore it is possible to establish certain tolerances within which quality is acceptable , and outside which it is not acceptable . |
| 12 | The glorification of action in Aeschylus ' Prometheus Bound is the antithesis of Sophocles ' endorsement of saintly passivity , but it rests on the same pessimistic basis . |
| 13 | Their position is thus an empiricist one , in that it rests on the principle that knowledge is the product of experience . |
| 14 | It rests at an angle , it rests on the er ladders of course because they are ang er the ladders are at an angle like that so part of the weight 's taken by the actual ladders . |
| 15 | It rests upon the fact that , if is basic , then where the sum is restricted to the nodes in either of the sub-trees resulting from the removal of the edge p to q from the tree corresponding to the BFS . |
| 16 | Whichever of these six defences in section 4 is raised , the burden of establishing it rests upon the defendant . |
| 17 | This prompts us to take a closer look at the bream , so we pick it up and immediately feel the narrowness of the belly where it rests in the crease of our fingers . |
| 18 | It rests in the heart of the dramatic scenery of Swaledale , one of Yorkshire 's most beautiful areas , in the village of Reeth . |