Example sentences of "rests on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear , too , that the text is concerned with public as well as private matters : Pomponius specifically gives as an example of an obligation which is purely moral ( and , as he puts it , rests on the auctoritas scribentis ) the case of a bequest for statues to be put up in a municipality . |
| 2 | These include expertise , interpersonal skills and positional power , and recognize the fact that power rests on the capacity of managers to induce others to confer power on them . |
| 3 | As Nagel points out , the problem in understanding what it is like to be a bat rests on the difficulty of matching different subjectivities . |
| 4 | Each manages to avoid the others by means of a special dividend antenna , one part of which rests on the water surface . |
| 5 | The hemiplegic arm rests on the garment : if the therapist lifts it , she takes the shoulder and hand . |
| 6 | It is therefore necessary to depart quite sharply from conventional postwar wisdom about the pre-war years — a wisdom that rests on the twin myths of firm punishment in the courts , going hand-in-hand with little or no crime and an untroubled youth — and to state a rather different version of events . |
| 7 | The significance to the creditors of the form of business organization rests on the issue of limited liability ( see p. 28 ) . |
| 8 | Moreover , our modern concept of history , however rationalized and secularized it may be , still rests on the concept of historical time which was inaugurated by Christianity . |
| 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 | Note that it is the heel which rests on the board , not the whole foot . |
| 11 | The rate of growth of capital depends however on the level of savings ( on the equilibrium path , planned savings are equal to planned investment ) ; and whether or not there is convergence to steady state rests on the properties of the savings function . |
| 12 | One arm rests on the farthingale of the skirt , the hand very delicately holding a large white scarf ; the other hand rests on a chair back . |
| 13 | Indeed , Williams then goes on to discuss the propriety of treating children against the wishes of their parents , and states that ‘ the legal authority for this rests on the doctrine of necessity . ’ |
| 14 | The other U-boat , brought from Norway , rests on the sands of Kiel Roads , close to the gloomy German naval museum ; and Chicago being rather far , we used it extensively in the making of our film . |
| 15 | If a definition of postmodernism rests on the removal of subjectivity , then several of the nouveaux romans cited demonstrate forcefully that the subject is a site of contradictions . |
| 16 | The effectiveness of the market for control rests on the proposition ( ’ the efficient market hypothesis ’ ) that stock markets behave rationally , that is , that shares are priced at a level that reflects a company 's prospects under existing management and that prices are not merely the outcome of speculations on the part of market participants about each other 's behaviour , causing price and underlying value to become detached . |
| 17 | fits on there and that bit just rests on the wall , well then |
| 18 | Legal authority is that which rests on the rules of the organisation . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Because the widespread poverty of older women and the penury experienced by some groups among them derive to a considerable extent from the operation of social and economic policies within patriarchal capitalism , any major change in their status rests on the development of alternative policies . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , it will be appreciated that , for example , in the census , the main obligation for accuracy rests on the head of the household , who may intentionally or unintentionally provide false information . |
| 22 | The cloud , the visible token of his presence , rests on the tabernacle , and the place is filled with his glory . |
| 23 | His argument is that medicine rests on the discovery of natural laws while legal norms derive from decisions , influenced by the actions of lawyers themselves . |
| 24 | Their position is thus an empiricist one , in that it rests on the principle that knowledge is the product of experience . |
| 25 | [ 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 . |
| 26 | Its whole future rests on the decision we take as a nation when we vote in the General Election on Thursday , ’ he said . |
| 27 | The success of any programme rests on the faculty 's enthusiasm and support . |
| 28 | Likewise , the strength of any union in the final analysis rests on the resolve of workers to oppose managerial control at the point of production . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |