Example sentences of "may rest on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It remains to be seen whether they will still be in business to take the show to London in April ; it looks as if the outcome of the Northern group may rest on the Roses game later in the month . |
| 2 | In brief , the Cartesian reduction may rest on a set of difficulties which are linguistically generated by treating language as a less complicated thing than it in fact is . |
| 3 | In some cases , the link between the peasant sector and commercial farming may rest on the sale of goods rather than labour , as in the following example taken from the state of São Paulo . |
| 4 | TRACEY BOYD 'S REPUTATION may rest on her magical illustrations of animals given human features , but her work is far from faceless . |
| 5 | TRACEY BOYD 'S REPUTATION may rest on her magical illustrations of animals given human features , but her work is far from faceless . |
| 6 | Suspicion may rest on him : and so he is suspended until he is cleared of it . |
| 7 | These can in turn be described in detail by the zonal space and excursion relationships as follows ( see Figure 2.19 ) : A loose pin in a hole may rest on the adjoining surfaces and stand on the bottom of the hole . |
| 8 | N. Johnson , ‘ Constitutional Reform : Some Dilemmas for a Conservative Philosophy ’ in Conservative Party Politics ( Layton-Henry , ed. , 1980 ) , at p. 139 , stated : ‘ A relative majority in the House of Commons may rest on a minority position in the country . |
| 9 | The Historia Brittonum ( ch. 63 ) states that Eadwine was baptized with thousands of his people by a Briton , Rhun , son of Urbgen ( possibly to be identified with Urien , lord of Rheged ) , but this may rest on a confusion of Bede 's account of mass-baptisms by Paulinus in the River Glen near Yeavering ( HE 11 , 14 ) with the occasion of the baptism of Eadwine which took place in York ( HE 11 , 14 ) . |