Example sentences of "they lie [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Revenue said questions had been raised about whether these assets qualified for deferral if all other conditions were met and , while it could be argued they lie outside the scope of the provisions , ‘ the better view was that they are within them ’ . |
| 2 | The model being offered here suggests that far from merely being tools or means , they to a large extent constitute our stances in and towards the world ; in this sense , they lie across the base of the pyramid in Figure 2.1 . |
| 3 | In two species examined the crystals lie parallel to the surface and in another two they lie at a steep angle . |
| 4 | Like the question of corporal punishment and school uniform , they lie at the heart of the parent–state conflict which flows from a disharmony between individual parental choice and the collectivist focus of the state . |
| 5 | For surely they lie at the heart of higher education . |
| 6 | There are of course all kinds of truths that are not of this sort ; but they lie on a lower level altogether . |
| 7 | They lie on a mattress in the living room and make love by candlelight . |
| 8 | As they lie on the benches within arm 's reach , the foliage compositions initially shock by their scale . |
| 9 | To gain access for repairing the brickwork , treating timber or painting , simple unhook the trellis , gently bending the plants back until they lie on the ground . |
| 10 | They seem to ignore the caves in their tank and they lie on the open gravel at night . |
| 11 | They lie on the eastern margin of the North Atlantic craton and form the North-west Foreland ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 12 | The canvas of my tent ( to be exact , not canvas but a green plastic material ) is flapping in the breeze which comes over the plains and stirs the dry leaves where they lie on the bottom of the dry river . |
| 13 | They are likely to be found in both large and small towns , provided they lie on the main roads , and therefore the Antonine Itinerary can be a useful indicator to their presence . |
| 14 | The only thing that could warp the way that the band goes is the media , because they lie for the most part ; they come up with their own reasons and their own interpretations and people just believe what they read . ’ |
| 15 | Brennan and McGeevor ( 1988 ) locate polytechnic/college courses on a continuum ranging from the ‘ occupational specialist ’ through the ‘ occupational generalist ’ and ‘ generalist plus ’ to the ‘ generalist ’ , which suggests that they lie down the professional-general side of the triangle . |
| 16 | Near-surface diagenetic environments are further subdivided depending on whether the pore spaces are saturated with fluids , within the phreatic zone , or whether they lie above the water table so are partially fluid filled and partially gas filled , within the vadose zone ( Fig. 5.15 ) . |
| 17 | Whereas , in a crystal we may choose the axes of symmetry , in an amorphous polymer there is by definition no symmetry and all we know about the atom in a chain is where its topological nearest neighbours are but not where its spatial neighbours are , except that they lie within a " van der Waals radius ' of the chosen atom . |
| 18 | They lie within the mouth slit . |
| 19 | Thus even in a situation where Creole is permitted , none may in fact be spoken — or if it is , it may be limited to ritualised tokens such as the tags man , guy and star , which , though they lie within the boundaries of the folk concept " Patois " are best seen as part of the language of black-influenced youth culture . |
| 20 | No they are , they lie they lie within the urban settlement of York but outside our boundary . |
| 21 | Some areas are viewed more than once during this 16-day repeat cycle because they lie in an area of overlap between adjacent orbits . |
| 22 | alluding to an old proverb about foretelling the weather : ‘ When pigs carry sticks , the clouds will play tricks ; when they lie in the mud , no fears of a flood . ’ |
| 23 | They lie in the Archaean high-Al TTD and adakite field ( Fig. 2 ) , consistent with an origin as partial melts of amphibolite with different proportions of garnet . |
| 24 | Such magmas have high Na 2 O and Sr and low HREE contents , and on a Sr/Y versus Y plot ( Fig. 3 ) they lie in the Archaean high-Al TTD adakite field ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 25 | The breakers sometimes overturn them and they lie in the sand , with their legs waving , their stiff tails slowly swivelling , in an effort to lever themselves back . |
| 26 | So after toddling about for a while you go into Barries ’ and point out the shorts where they lie in the window , interleaved with their fellows . |
| 27 | They lie in the track of the North Atlantic depressions which brew on the fringe of the Gulf Stream . |
| 28 | If they lie in the area shaded horizontally , the new equilibrium Y e is approached gradually , as shown in Fig. 6 . |
| 29 | If they lie in the area shaded vertically , national income will rise or fall explosively and indefinitely never reaching a new equilibrium as shown in Fig. 7 . |