Example sentences of "that lie in [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It was low and cracked to begin with , then it rose up the scale , eerily , and shook out its top notes across the damp , half-lit glade until I really did think that my father had come not from the hospital but from some horribly , cold , empty region that lies in wait for us instead of all the heavens we have dreamed up to make things bearable .
2 Other treks cross the two fine Arctic National Parks , Uhro Kekkonen to the east , and Lemmenjoki park in the north , a park that links with the Øvre Anarjokka Park that lies in Norway , to the east of Kautokeino , capital of Norwegian Lappland .
3 Then , ‘ The light that lies in woman 's eyes has been my heart 's undoing ’ . ’
4 There are some waters that lie in valleys where the wind has little if any influence on the water , apart from a scurrying ripple that makes little difference to the temperature layers , dissolved oxygen , or food distribution .
5 Yarnell launched 150 of his aircraft which arrived in less than an hour over Oahu , he now had the capability of destroying the ships that lay in Pearl Harbor .
6 Basic training and a posting to a Regiment lay ahead , all of it an unknown quantity , and my enthusiasm was so manifest because everything that lay in front of me was so foreign .
7 Watching him , teasing him , tickling him in the place he liked between his front legs , Nails idled the afternoon away , pushing out of his mind the horrors that lay in wait : the busybody care people poking their noses in , the job he had no fat chance of getting when he was out of school on his ear , no more riding at Biddy 's , no nothing at all , not even any certainty of keeping in touch with batty Firelight and her pushy baby .
8 Carnivores can be divided into those that lay in wait as opposed to actively hunting for their prey .
9 This , however was a mere pin-prick compared to the actions that lay in store .
10 Earlier writers had given hints of the rewards that lay in store for those who followed this intellectual path .
11 But that was before she 'd known the traumas that lay in store for her .
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