Example sentences of "[noun sg] rest on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Buddie was sitting on a hard chair with one foot resting on an upturned petrol-tin . |
| 2 | Seated on one stool by the wall of the hut , with her foot resting on another , Paige stared gloomily at Travis 's figure down by the water 's edge . |
| 3 | In its original form the Bill made provision for a single ballot , the decision resting on a simple majority of those voting . |
| 4 | Level with a long board resting on the strips |
| 5 | One night the judge on the show 's talent competition ‘ Novelty Island ’ , turned out to be the pop star Mick Hucknall 's orange hair resting on an oar . |
| 6 | He lay back on the seat in the dark interior with the attaché case resting on his knees as the driver cranked up the engine . |
| 7 | He opened the briefcase resting on his trouser leg , extracted a piece of plastic . |
| 8 | Adult white admiral resting on honeysuckle ( sexes share similar underside patterning ) |
| 9 | The load forces were taken by the centre hole in the wheel resting on the flange on the end of the axle . |
| 10 | She touched the jellied space in her mouth and found a drop of blood like a shiny ladybird resting on her finger . |
| 11 | Outside , crouching , his weight resting on his good arm , Kit Everard was praying , ‘ The Lord is my shepherd , I 'll not want . ’ |
| 12 | The student begins with his right foot forward , with most of his weight resting on the left leg . |
| 13 | Airline finances and particularly those of small independents are very volatile , sometimes the difference between profit and loss resting on two or three additional seats being filled . |
| 14 | The Ark rested on top of the Ararat mountains , on the seventeenth of July . |
| 15 | His shadowed eyes roved around , as though he were personally serenading each woman in the room , and Shelley felt a shiver when his glance rested on her neat fair head and blue eyes . |
| 16 | The light rested on the last of these for some while , then moved upward , searching the end wall . |
| 17 | The light rested on her cheeks as heavily as tears . |
| 18 | For instance , finality is felt in a return to the tonic , accompanied by tonic harmony , while temporary repose or the need for continuity is implied if the melody rests on another note with ( inevitably ) harmony which is not tonic harmony . |
| 19 | Her neck rested on the top curve of the seat and this lifted her mouth as if for kissing . |
| 20 | That the surface of a rotating earth would experience a great wind rested on the assumption that the air could not rotate with the earth . |
| 21 | Your weight rests on the balls of your feet , not on the heels , so the calves are under tension . |
| 22 | More generally , civilisation rested on the repression of instinctive urges . |
| 23 | Her glance rested on him only for a matter of seconds , yet his face could not have registered more in her mind had she been staring at him for an hour . |
| 24 | His glance rested on her blotched face and swollen lids . |
| 25 | With great respect to the learned Lord Justice I am disposed to think that this reasoning rests on an ambiguous use of the word ‘ duty . ’ |
| 26 | For the new government , economic regeneration rested on more than mere control of public expenditure . |
| 27 | By his recommendation he implies that a reasonable investigation has been made and that his recommendation rests on the conclusions based on that investigation . |
| 28 | Responsibility for the defence of the coast rested on ‘ Old Grogram-breeches ’ or ‘ Old Grog ’ , Vice-Admiral [ later Admiral ] Edward Vernon , a popular hero , but disliked by the Admiralty because of his brusque manners . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The family had changed , and its various functions of education , food production , and the manufacture of clothing were already in part relinquished to a variety of institutions whose smooth functioning rested on the intervention and guidance of the nation state . |