Example sentences of "that lay behind " in BNC.
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| 1 | By releasing five senior officers imprisoned for crimes committed while they ran the country , from 1976 to 1983 , President Carlos Menem may have hoped to eliminate much of the discontent that lay behind three rebellions against his predecessor , Raul Alfonsin , and one against himself on December 3rd . |
| 2 | Hakim was the grand treasurer of ‘ The Enterprise ’ , the web of companies that lay behind both the Iran and the contra operations . |
| 3 | The Enterprise , that shadowy sump of money , weapons and operatives that lay behind both policies , was intended to operate in other places too , in fact to be ‘ pulled off the shelf , as North said Casey said , any time it was needed , with Congress kept well in the dark . |
| 4 | Keating , who came to symbolise the fraud and corruption that lay behind the collapse of hundreds of savings and loan institutions , which are comparable to British building societies , is still awaiting trial on more serious fraud and racketeering charges . |
| 5 | I had not kept my old key , because I had hoped that my association with Cutwater Charters was done , so I was forced to carry my heavy pack into the tangle of dark alleys that lay behind the straw market and where I planned to find Ellen and borrow her key . |
| 6 | I stared at Jackson Chatterton , and at last sensed the drama that lay behind his big calm presence . |
| 7 | This may serve to emphasise that this long-distance trade reflects political alliances and the organisation that lay behind it , as much as geographical location . |
| 8 | It was the spectacular performance of brands — and their owners — throughout the 1980s that lay behind the hefty premiums paid in these and other takeovers . |
| 9 | It was this interplay of ideas and practical events that lay behind the ‘ interactionist revolution ’ of the 1960s and 1970s and was to have a powerful influence over both psychological and sociological thinking about crime and deviance . |
| 10 | Even this limited warfare showed the most independent-minded of the colonists that the English connection had some practical uses , and the English government did its best to live up to the implicit bargain that lay behind the Navigation Acts . |
| 11 | What cemented the temporary alliance between feminists , like Josephine Butler , and moral repressionists , such as Alfred Dyer , was a rejection of the double standard that lay behind the speeches and pressure of most of their parliamentary opponents . |
| 12 | When it comes to the more basic aspects of organizational culture — the beliefs and values concerning leadership and organization — that lay behind the concrete organizational phenomena , a model relating culture to idea-management has evolved in our research efforts . |
| 13 | He went to his flat and kicked through the residue of ordinary living that lay behind his front door : letters , bills , journals . |
| 14 | It was this fear , indeed , that lay behind the creation of the Charity Organisation Society , whose aim was not to prevent charity but to curb its excesses and ‘ irresponsible ’ hand-outs . |
| 15 | Similarly , twentieth-century feminists used the importance attached to motherhood to argue for an economic and sexual independence antithetical to the patriarchal attitudes that lay behind theories of sexual difference and maternalism . |
| 16 | Then he saw — or rather heard , for the clip of their boot-studs on the flagstones was what first caught his attention — a file of boys in football kit making their way along a covered path linking the courtyard to the playing fields that lay behind the school buildings . |
| 17 | That , then , was the concatenation of circumstances that lay behind the events of Thursday night : Bill Muggeridge noticing the ring on the kitchen calendar ; Toby winning a victory over the headmaster on Monday night which made him chary of challenging him again on Wednesday ; Mr Crumwallis deciding that , on balance , a public schoolboy who was on the staff would do more for the school 's prestige than a young local , however personable . |
| 18 | Had n't she sensed the shrewdness and strength of purpose that lay behind those mask-like features ? |
| 19 | Luke smiled very slightly , as if he knew the desperation that lay behind the words . |
| 20 | Dane narrowed his eyes , clearly understanding the depths of anguish that lay behind the stark summary of one woman 's life . |
| 21 | She wished she were n't so aware of the sarcasm that lay behind his words . |
| 22 | Like all men , he saw only the smile and not the sadness that lay behind it . |
| 23 | I know that the hon. Gentleman is sympathetic to the idea of localism that lay behind the creation of the training and enterprise councils . |
| 24 | The creation of the system was interpreted by Bilson [ 1979 ] as : " … the first step back from the rugged individualism and national self-interest that lay behind the formal acceptance of flexible exchange rates at the Jamaica meetings of the International Monetary Fund in January 1976 . " |
| 25 | And she certainly had never confessed to the family pressures that lay behind the break-up of her marriage . |
| 26 | Because , of course , she could n't argue with the sense that lay behind his harsh words . |
| 27 | But Shelley was fascinated by the lives that lay behind the complaints . |