Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] rest on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pleming said the government 's case rested on the plan to take topsoil from Oxleas Wood to nearby Woodlands Farm and plant trees there . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | FoE 's case rests on the fact that levels are above the standards laid down by the European Commission . |
| 4 | Mr Hellyer 's gaze rested on the boy 's bleached head . |
| 5 | Otto 's authority rested on the success of his armies , most spectacularly in 955 at the battle of the Lechfeld when he defeated the Magyar hosts who were attacking Augsburg . |
| 6 | Jessop 's critique rests on the following grounds . |