Example sentences of "[vb -s] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When everyone in the country lives with the prospect of having their house destroyed by a bomb during the night , the Christian talk of Armageddon seems less fanciful than in the ‘ weak piping times of peace ’ . |
| 2 | When she returns home from work she lives with the shutters down , with no natural light or air entering the house . |
| 3 | Nevertheless the predominant catholic power lies with the hierarchy and secular clergy . |
| 4 | Cyclotron resonance by my theory only occurs if the hazardous frequency range lies with the exciting field . |
| 5 | But the tenderest difficulty lies with the family if they disapprove . |
| 6 | When signing a new artist the negotiating strength mainly lies with the record company . |
| 7 | The problem lies with the documents , which are too short to be of real value . |
| 8 | A kind thought , but one which suggests that the ‘ fault ’ lies with the ‘ ignorant ’ official and no one else , that the whole affair was an exceptional accident rather than one product of a carefully constructed machinery which demands these attitudes in its operators . |
| 9 | Responsibility for protecting the environment and for limiting damage already inflicted , lies with the entire human community . |
| 10 | The final decision on their fate lies with the government . |
| 11 | Perhaps the blame for this lies with the politicians . |
| 12 | The power lies with the members . |
| 13 | In this tradition the centre of authority in a family lies with the males rather than the females , although in the predominantly agricultural society in which Hinduism persisted and developed in India , women 's importance in the family economy has always been considerable . |
| 14 | The problem lies with the interpretation of the regulations governing the safety of toys . |
| 15 | The mainspring of voluntaryism is that initiative lies with the volunteers . |
| 16 | It lies with the politicians at different levels , right back to Brussels , who still believe in the efficacy of high-sounding names . |
| 17 | The burden of proof lies with the EC federalists to show why the EC would not become like twelve Quebecs , as the author put it to Jacques Delors at a private meeting in Rome in November 1990 . |
| 18 | people know that the real power in a newspaper lies with the editorial staff . |
| 19 | The reason for this lies with the majority of match anglers being brainwashed into using gossamer-fine line and tiny hooks , no matter what the species or situation demands . |
| 20 | Control of UDCs lies with the Department of the Environment . |
| 21 | Despite , in many instances , retained professional lines of accountability , the decision-making about resources to deliver nursing care , or to engage para-medic services , lies with the director . |
| 22 | Much is now available to the individual school or college , in terms of adapting management structures , since the control of the LEA is reduced and responsibility for innovation and change lies with the institutions . |
| 23 | In India , the responsibility clearly lies with the company . |
| 24 | Well , true , I 've never had a grabber like that ( maybe the fault lies with the subs ) . |
| 25 | The responsibility for repaying an unsecured personal loan or a credit card debt lies with the person or persons who were party to the agreement . |
| 26 | No , in reality the solution lies with the manufacturers . |
| 27 | Their only viable future lies with the kind of measures proposed by the early-1980s SDP — industrial partnership and incomes policies — plus the sort of trade unionism proposed by the electricians ' union , EETPU . |
| 28 | M oral philosophers are accustomed to start from the individual pursuing his own ends ; at once the question arises ‘ Why should I prefer anyone else 's to my own ? ’ , and until it can be answered the advantage lies with the egoist . |
| 29 | THE expression ‘ nosey parker ’ has often been linked to people of that name but the epithet 's origin actually lies with the Hyde Park rabbits and the Great Exhibition . |
| 30 | The answer lies with the drunken roues of the 17th Century . |