Example sentences of "[noun sg] lies [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A description of the course penned in 1892 holds true : ‘ Like many of the best links , the Aberdovey course lies partly among the sand-hills and partly on the low ground just inside . |
| 2 | It is important to notice that the contrast lies primarily in the function of language which Halliday calls IDEATIONAL that is , the way in which language conveys and organizes the cognitive realities of experience , roughly corresponding to what we have earlier called " sense " : [ 12 ] The bushes twitched again . |
| 3 | In comparison with literature , as Christine Gledhill has observed , the appeal of the cinema lies exactly in the offer of an escape from language into ‘ the pleasure of an achieved unity between subject and reality ’ . |
| 4 | Ankaa lies slightly off the mid-point of a line joining Fomalhaut to Achernar , which is probably the best way of identifying it . |
| 5 | According to Mr Lamont , if there is gloom about the British economy the fault lies entirely with the British people . |
| 6 | The implications of the book 's theory is that Israeli claims to statehood in Palestine are founded upon a false assumption and that the Jewish homeland lies just down the road from Mecca . |
| 7 | Your half-brother lies deep inside the Dark Realm and , unless he is rescued , you are Tara 's heir . |
| 8 | But it does , and the remedy lies partly in the hands of each one of us as well as in the hands of governments and large industries throughout the world . |
| 9 | The RIBA President , Richard MacCormac says , ‘ Rice 's work lies firmly in the tradition of the great Victorian engineers [ combining ] practicality with great beauty ’ . |
| 10 | The greatest contribution outside powers can make in creating a climate for peace lies less in the field of diplomacy than in that of law observance . |
| 11 | The blame lies squarely on the shoulders of successive Home Secretaries , carrying out the policies of what were then neo-fascist Conservative governments . |
| 12 | Abuse is shameful , of course , but the blame lies squarely with the perpetrator and never with the victim . |
| 13 | As I told the board before their meeting with the Receiver , the blame lies solely with the person who dreamt up the idea , namely Chester Bence . |
| 14 | And indeed , this level of hypnosis lies somewhere between the state of deep relaxation and light meditation . |
| 15 | The most characteristic version of this alienation lies here in the responses we have both to objects in general and their forms in particular instances . |
| 16 | The intention is that er this B one three six three six corridor lies broadly within the Hambledon district and its eastern most boundary is roughly contiguous with the Ryedale and Hambledon boundary . |
| 17 | Historically the word may come from one of several sources , but given its apparent near-restriction to the Welsh border counties , its origin lies perhaps in the Old Welsh Cai , the Middle Welsh Kei , and the Latin Caius , a common praenomen among the Romans . |
| 18 | And the difference lies primarily in the mind . |
| 19 | The difference lies only in the cultural pattern with which the children associates . |
| 20 | The superiority of primary over secondary school education lies mainly in the fact that most children of primary school age are open to teaching , and ready to be interested . |
| 21 | Both the second and , more strongly , the third reason show that the doctrine of excessive defence may include a substantial element of excuse in its rationale , even though its theoretical foundation lies unmistakably in the concept of legal justification . |
| 22 | This may occur in Keegan 's ‘ global company ’ but there the emphasis lies more in the company 's approach to products and markets , without the same global integration of flows of resources , ideas and people . |
| 23 | It lies within three degrees of Mirphak , and may be found by locating the little quadrilateral made up of 48 , Mu , b and Lambda ; the cluster lies just outside the quadrilateral , near b . |
| 24 | A final threat to parliamentary government is increasing technocracy : ‘ the modern state in all advanced countries has become a formidable machine of which the control lies less in the hands of elected representatives of the people than of technicians , specialists , experts . |
| 25 | The area of suggested centuriation lies well to the north of the town on Cliffe Marshes , and Nightingale even claimed that a plot measuring 2 by I actus ( =1 iugerum ) , which features on the 1840 tithe map and is still in the possession of a single owner , was a survivor of the Roman survey . |
| 26 | Here one of the pair of reaction primers is deliberately designed so that its 3' terminal residue lies precisely at the point mutation site . |
| 27 | Its greatest asset lies perhaps in the motivation it can engender amongst children . |
| 28 | Freedberg : ‘ For Kosuth , then , an art such as Hans Haacke 's in which the message lies primarily in the content simply reinforces the positions already held by his viewers . |
| 29 | Your article Ten ways to get cancer ( Cancer NI 198 ) was written in a negative and insensitive way and implied that the responsibility for getting the illness lies solely with the individual . |
| 30 | The choice lies essentially between the following groups : |