Example sentences of "[noun sg] lie [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Examples of this reciprocal effect lie in the man who is engrossed in his work to the detriment of his married life or the woman who is so wrapped up in her children that she has little time for her husband . |
| 2 | Statu tory power and financial leverage lie with the centre , but local political legitimacy , accepted ‘ rules of the game ’ and professional knowledge lie locally . |
| 3 | Explanations for this lack of mobility lie in the international context . |
| 4 | That leaves the Arts Council without any funding responsibility , while the power and the influence lie with the person who holds the purse strings the Secretary of State ’ . |
| 5 | It is important to recognize that the origins of the modern nation-state lie in the achievement of a monopoly of force within a given territory . |
| 6 | Aspects of sexual law which have relevance for social work lie in the following Acts . |
| 7 | Questions concerned with access to the curriculum lie at the heart of any whole-school policy . |
| 8 | The first three ganglia are situated one in each of the thoracic segments , and are known as the thoracic ganglia ; the remainder lie in the abdomen and form the ganglia of that region . |
| 9 | The issues of freedom of conscience and freedom from Roman hegemony lie at the centre of Northern Ireland fundamentalism and are meshed in with its evangelical tenets . |
| 10 | The same principle holds good for all pairs of wind instruments in combination unless , of course , the two bottom notes of the chord lie outside the downward compass of the upper pair of instruments . |
| 11 | Somehow or other that piece of parchment and the seed cake lie at the very heart of the murder and they must know something about both . |
| 12 | Reasons of security lie behind the decision and only a few works will not be staying , including a handful of objects and paintings belonging to the artist himself and the painting ‘ Montroig , the church and the people ’ ( 1919 ) which has been promised to the Fondació Joan Miró in Barcelona . |
| 13 | A BIZARRE tale of heroin addiction , drug peddling , police raids and the missing page from an old chemistry journal lie behind the chance discovery in California of a chemical that may be the key to unlocking the mysteries of Parkinson 's Disease — a debilitating and incurable disease of the nervous system that afflicts the elderly . |
| 14 | Most of the other stars that are visible to the naked eye lie within a few hundred light-years of us . |
| 15 | Crates of beer and wine lie at the side of the road , covered with a tarpaulin , a brazier burns and an alsatian dog keeps guard outside a broken down caravan . |
| 16 | His aspirations for career development lie beyond the confines of Art teaching . |
| 17 | At the outset this seems an onerous task , as not only do gallons of water lie on the sail but the wind is also trying to hold the sail down . |
| 18 | These inward struggles for wholeness as a person lie at the heart of what it means to be a Christian . |
| 19 | If you knit the background colour on the ribber , floats of the pattern colour lie between the beds and are trapped between the rows of main colour stitches on the ribber and main bed . |
| 20 | The castle and cathedral lie within the Roman town ( Cambridge University Collection : copyright reserved ) |
| 21 | If it does not , it can not in any event lie against a visitor on that basis . |
| 22 | A dry cattle drink in June may be a superb barbel lie in a January flood ! |
| 23 | The origins of this popular movement lie in the first wave of pressure for disarmament , which began with the emergence of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ( CND ) in 1958 and ended in 1964 , with its decline in the face of the new Labour Government 's failure to rid itself of nuclear weapons . |
| 24 | Leibniz 's view is that the sources of individuation lie within the entities themselves ; in other words , entities are regarded as basic , and places are said to be explicable in terms of relations between entities — " entities " meaning here " individual substances " or " monads " . |
| 25 | The origins of the foundation of this great national collection lie in a body of private individuals — the Society of the Patriotic Friends of the Arts — founded in 1779 , under the protection of Count Caspar Sternberg , who also founded the National Museum ( see p. 149 ) . |
| 26 | The roots of modern pharmacology lie in the empirical discoveries of the past century , when medical men found that single therapeutic agents could effect seemingly miraculous cures . |
| 27 | Lumps of excrement and sodden pieces of toilet paper lie in the water in a state which suggests they have not been broken down at all . |
| 28 | The problems with this approach lie in the fact that the influence of individual components can not be assessed . |
| 29 | These doubts about the merit of a blind pursuit of perfect competition lie behind the UK policy and the judgements of the MMC . |
| 30 | And if you want to try to understand say something like the er Iran Contra scandal then part of the roots of that scandal lie in the American constitution in the way that there is , th that the president is controlled by other aspects of the constitution . |