Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] rest on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This issue is currently at the centre of pedagogical discussions about language , since many teaching methods rest on the assumption that when children talk or write , they are also developing their ability to think . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | Under this arrangement , repayment obligations rest on the overseas borrower . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The significance to the creditors of the form of business organization rests on the issue of limited liability ( see p. 28 ) . |
| 7 | Place the spaceship carefully on to the red spaceship base , so that the candy tips rest on the cake . |
| 8 | The night pressed down on the flood of the arc lights , the line of lamp clusters rested on the outer knee of wood planks . |
| 9 | His index finger rested on the inbuilt voltage control . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The great powers , America , Britain and Russia , dominated the peace-making process and hopes for world peace rested on the global UN . |
| 17 | Within the sectors there is always a keeping to the fore the awareness that long-lasting solutions to the country 's health problems rest on the economic , political and cultural transformations of people 's day to day lives . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But when someone tried to test the security of the spare wheel attached to the side of the body by pulling at it roughly and then , intrigued by the pair of leather driving-gauntlets resting on the front seat , fitted them on and passed them around for general examination he decided it was time to leave . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The animal skulls resting on the mantelpiece came from as far afield as Arizona and India , and some were brought back to be drawing subjects in more works of art |
| 22 | The proposition linking external factors to workshop behaviour rested on the first three studies . |