Example sentences of "lay in its " in BNC.
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| 1 | It lay in its hollow , drowsy in the afternoon sun , its grey gritstone walls casting a short , black shadow . |
| 2 | The child of one of her lodgers died in her house in April of an undiagnosed heart complaint — the tiny thing 's heart simply stopped as it lay in its cot — and though she was sorry for it and sympathetic to the last degree she was aware that inside herself she shrugged and felt none of the horror and distress such an event would once have caused her . |
| 3 | However , the real strength of the District lay in its active urban branches : Peterborough , Rushden , Wellingborough , Northampton , Kettering , Cambridge , Bedford , Ipswich and Welwyn Garden City , and two-thirds of the District 's Tutorial Class students were concentrated in these branches , a total of some 400 . |
| 4 | For Diderot , an admirer of Garrick , the key to acting lay in its repeatability . |
| 5 | The main virtue of the Donnison Report ( eventually published in 1970 ) lay in its cool and thorough analysis of the nature and pace of the movement towards more openness in secondary education . |
| 6 | At least one strong appeal inherent in Christ 's teaching lay in its promise of a life of happiness to be enjoyed at some future date . |
| 7 | Anticipating this difficulty for their new employee , the oil company installed an incinerator loo which , at the press of a button , was triggered into fiery life as six flame-throwing nozzles squirting blazing diesel in all directions enveloping and consuming all that lay in its path . |
| 8 | This was utter nonsense from a communist point of view and neither Ceauşescu nor Brezhnev had any intention of abiding by the terms of the Helsinki agreement , but its value to them lay in its public announcement to the peoples of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union that the West had abandoned them to their fate . |
| 9 | In the long term , the future of British pacifism lay in its capacity to adapt to the demise of the world order from which , often unconsciously , its most fundamental assumptions were derived . |
| 10 | Campden Hill Square lay in its midday calm , an urban oasis of greenery and Georgian elegance rising from the ceaseless grind and roar of Holland Park Avenue . |
| 11 | But the interest in the sale lay in its younger and more international image , partly due to the inclusion of forty lots from the estate of Swedish collector , Frederik Roos . |
| 12 | Its appeal for Friends perhaps lay in its resolution of the tension within the Quaker outlook between a perfectionist separation from worldly activities and the moral relativism involved in the direct exercise of power . |
| 13 | Some of its appeal undoubtedly lay in its ritual and spectacular trappings ; in an age when pageantry was declining elsewhere and when a new mass public was appearing , royal marriages , funerals and coronations were welcome as stirring displays . |
| 14 | As Boyce has pointed out , the credibility of the press ‘ lay in its apparent independence from the political party machine ’ even though its natural position ‘ was that of being part of the political machine ’ . |
| 15 | For the great weakness of feudal jurisdiction lay in its lack of muscle to enforce the appearance of both parties in court . |
| 16 | The official imposition of conventional social forms and norms was achieved largely through the education and legal systems , but its strength lay in its manipulation of existing social values and a long-standing social system which enabled it to be internalized by the average Japanese . |
| 17 | Although smaller and lighter than the 7.62 Self Loading Rifles which we had used in the Territorial Army , its strength lay in its high velocity rounds and accuracy . |
| 18 | The special value of mathematics lay in its applicability to all other sciences . |
| 19 | As Henry 's army advanced towards Mantes it burned and looted everything which lay in its path . |
| 20 | But desirable though all this was , it never detracted from Verity Lambert 's basic belief that the underlying strength of the series lay in its four principal artists , all of whom she thought developed the most realistic inter-relationships ever forged in a science fiction series , spearheaded , of course , by William Hartnell 's magnetic interpretation of the Doctor . |
| 21 | Returning to the theme of the question , the speaker emphasized that much of South Africa 's importance lay in its mineral wealth . |
| 22 | He lay in its arms . |
| 23 | On these rested the employers ' capacity to break any strike , while the union 's strength lay in its capacity to " picket out " the vessels and shipping offices concerned and to dry up the supply of blacklegs by intercepting the trains on which they arrived and by organizing the ports from which they had been recruited . |
| 24 | The strength of the rock and roll tradition lay in its fantasy of the streets ( and in the development of that fantasy by the suburban youth who dominate pop history ) . |
| 25 | His clarinet lay in its case on the stool at the foot of his bed ; the very wide bed Francis bought when we married . |
| 26 | It is surely no more the function of the judiciary to tell the GLC where the public interest lay in its spending of public money than it is the function of the judiciary to make similar judgments about spending by the Departments of the central government . |
| 27 | Perhaps most important was the idea that you did n't need to suffer , and much of the importance of religion lay in its claim to make sense of suffering . |
| 28 | ‘ My father has seven of these , ’ Jehan said , fingering a half-finished bow as it lay in its clamps . |
| 29 | The success of Reuter 's agency lay in its objectivity , speed , and even-handed treatment of clients . |
| 30 | When writing on a less metaphysical level , and in face of the paintings themselves , even Apollinaire had to admit that the subject played an important part , and that the realism of the movement lay in its attempt to make a totally new but nevertheless very concrete statement about the visual world . |