Example sentences of "[noun sg] lies [not/n't] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time the difficulty lies not in the term ‘ professional ’ but in the term ‘ development ’ . |
| 2 | In custodial terms , even a successful simulation exercise does no more than transfer the operational persona of an historic early machine to a currently supportable platform ( typically a 486-based PC ) which will itself be duly subject to generational obsolescence : the potential of the technique lies not in the immortality of current hardware but in the prospect of machine-independent software . |
| 3 | The survival value of this act lies not with the individual but with its hive community . |
| 4 | Salvation lies not in the thrust |
| 5 | The utility of a bank loan lies not in the money itself , of course , but in the goods which can be purchased with it . |
| 6 | The validity of critical theory lies not in the adoption of a method , vindicated by epistemology , but in the enlightenment that is successful in generating a political practice that moves towards emancipation , the liberation of human beings from domination . |
| 7 | DNA recognition specificity lies not in the entire variable region but only in domains within the region [ 13 ] . |
| 8 | The first method — each bell unique but each ringing everywhere — means that the ‘ message ’ of the bell lies in its specific sound ; in the second , the message lies not in the bell , but in the way it is wired up . |
| 9 | Where goods are not durable , the mischief lies not in the fact that they ceased to perform adequately but rather that , at the date of supply , they did not have the capacity to endure . |
| 10 | The second and more general reason lies not in the particular ways in which human beings may have evolved , but simply in the fact that they have evolved , and by natural selection . |
| 11 | The structural problem lies not in the overall placing , which is finely judged , but in an occasional lapse into spasmodic ( Latin American ? ) rubato . |
| 12 | However , for the historian the problem lies not in the absence of data , but rather in the bulk of the material available to him . |
| 13 | Eventually the ground of objectivity lies not in the past , in the nature of early members of the series or in our early grasp of the rule , but in the present behaviour of our linguistic or mathematical community . |
| 14 | There are many who argue that the key to hegemonic control in any societal system lies not in the economic nor in the political sphere , but in the realm of culture and ideology . |
| 15 | The deviance lies not in the act itself but is a consequence of the application by ‘ moral entrepreneurs ’ of rules and sanctions to the offender . |