Example sentences of "that lie [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are times when it might seem that this is a definition which can produce the sense of a self which is both amorphous and autonomous , of a doubtful self which also serves to cast doubt on the human world that lies beyond the subjective individual — a world which some writers are , and some are not , very cunning in , and which is inhabited by people with a working knowledge of who they are and what they are doing . |
| 2 | I left the motorway system east of the centre of Birmingham and , with my map of the area open beside me , headed into the grey and depressing urban blight that lies to the south of the city or , rather , that lies all around the city . |
| 3 | Nought but a rabble he had gathered together on the fair island that lies to the east — of buccaneers and booty hunters and ruffianly runaways from the slaveships that are plying these waters most usefully . |
| 4 | Enthusiastic supporters claimed that the movement gave to ‘ the Free Churches a unity they have never had before ’ although this same observer recognized that it was ‘ the Establishment that lies at the foundation of our contention ’ . |
| 5 | I suspect that if we were to take a sensate tension structure such as the love-hate paradox that lies at the heart of Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet theme , we would be able to transpose it into different forms each appropriate to a particular culture , and , provided we had the necessary skill of course , we would be able to do this for all cultures in the world . |
| 6 | The other school of thought on hypnosis emphasises the special social situation that lies at the core of hypnosis . |
| 7 | It is the attempt to examine some of these interdisciplinary intersections that lies at the heart of this text . |
| 8 | It is this conundrum that lies at the very heart of the Section 28 debate — not to mention Labour 's problems with it . |
| 9 | Associativity provides a cellular analogue of classical conditioning , and is an implicit property of the Hebb synapse , the computing element that lies at the heart of the current interest in neural computation . |
| 10 | Although the campaigns in which Mrs Whitehouse and her associates have been involved during this period may , on the surface , seem particularly disparate and eclectic , if one looks below the surface — as Tracey and Morrison have done particularly thoroughly — then it is the diminishing influence of the Church in moral issues that lies at the heart of NVALA action and concern . |
| 11 | For us now , I think , the desolation that lies at the heart of this music needs no additional dissonance or atonalism to guarantee its creativity , and the grim joviality of ‘ King Pest ’ , in the Rondo Burlesca , is savage farce of a particularly modern ( as well as Elizabethan ) kind : compare for instance , the fiercely jaunty ‘ Out there , we 've walked quite friendly up to Death ’ in Britten 's War Requiem . |
| 12 | It is this concept that lies at the back of R. P. A. Edwards ' attack on dial-access retrieval systems : |
| 13 | He might try to justify the principle by appealing to logic , a recourse that we freely grant him , or he might attempt to justify the principle by appealing to experience , a recourse that lies at the basis of his whole approach to science . |
| 14 | The temple illustrates the animal fetishism that lies at the dark roots of Egyptian religion and which it never really outgrew . |
| 15 | He must think in terms of thousand upon thousand of repetitions when practising a particular kata , for only through constant repetition will he be able to master the basic fighting movements and to achieve the physical and spiritual sensitivity that lies at the heart of the martial arts . |
| 16 | The plasterwork has peeled to reveal the red sandstone underneath ; and in places that sandstone has in turn crumbled away to reveal the intricate brickwork that lies at the core of the structure . |
| 17 | One can forget for a while the rigours faced everyday and appreciate wholeheartedly the kind of escapism that lies at the root of ‘ The Passionate Shepherd to his love ’ and ‘ The Garden ’ and all other poems which make up the pastoral garden . |
| 18 | The administration 's strongest criticism to date of Mobutu came in testimony to the Senate foreign relations committee on Nov. 7 by Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Herman Cohen , who accused Mobutu of " an apparent unwillingness to distinguish between state finances and his own , a failing that lies at the heart of Zaïre 's dismal economic record " . |
| 19 | To design a means of navigating effectively amongst thousands of images , video sequences , sound , text and numerics , all seamlessly combined as a single information resource , is a challenging problem and one that lies at the heart of successful multimedia applications . |
| 20 | The theory that lies at the core of Layard 's analysis is the ‘ real wage resistance ’ hypothesis : workers have a target real wage which they strive to achieve and defend through the wage bargaining process . |
| 21 | Not only was the advent of computing perhaps rather longer and more protracted than in some other disciplines , but invariably it is the case that the very nature of computer application in history is rather different , and it is this difference that lies at the root of the oncoming problem . |
| 22 | It is , however , Falstaff himself that lies at the heart of the opera and Colin Rees proved a master of the role . |
| 23 | For Opposition Members to suggest that we should have nuclear weapons but not the ability to test shows how little they understand the responsibility that lies with a nuclear power . |
| 24 | Baron Frankenstein stands in his laboratory quaking with anticipation ; in half an hour a lightning bolt will streak from the skies bringing life to the thing that lies on the slab . |
| 25 | It is an appropriate name for a land that lies on the edge of Europe , at the threshold of Asia and along the northern coast of the Black Sea . |
| 26 | He had broken through the terror barrier , perhaps , and was in the dead calm state of mind that lies on the other side . |
| 27 | ‘ You see how easy it is , McAllister , ’ he whispered suddenly , and he kissed the top of her head , ‘ when it is love that lies between a man and a woman , and not hate and fear . ’ |
| 28 | St Albans is a good example of this type , if we think away the large block of building that lies between the present market place and the street called Chequer Street that lies behind . |
| 29 | The part of the aquifer that lies above the water table is termed the unsaturated zone . |
| 30 | If that part of the journey from home to destination that lies outside the immediate neighbourhood can not be made safely and easily by bike or on foot , then the environmental and safety gains made inside neighbourhood traffic calmed areas are unlikely to be fully utilised . |