Example sentences of "lies [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The actual uniqueness of life probably lies somewhere between the extremes represented by Statement 1 and Statement 3 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The blame lies squarely on the shoulders of successive Home Secretaries , carrying out the policies of what were then neo-fascist Conservative governments . |
| 4 | After all , as Havelock Ellis remarked : ‘ the breeding of men lies largely in the hands of women ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In fact I think it possible that in the context of hi-jacking we are developing the anti-tank weapon — one which is largely a moral weapon and lies mainly in the hands of political authority . |
| 8 | It lies now beneath the waters of the lake , about ten miles out from the shore . |
| 9 | That portion of the epicranium which lies immediately behind the frons and between the compound eyes is termed the vertex . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The little hamlet of San Felice lies virtually at the gates of Siena . |
| 12 | No reliance on the imagined generosity of a mythical ‘ god ’ can provide escape from the natural order that ultimately insists that responsibility for the provision of the needs , for example of a family , lies primarily with the parents . |
| 13 | Our concern is with that huge category of stock which is not issuing well and which fills our valuable storage space : the nineteenth-century biographies ; the classics of politics and philosophy ; the long journal runs ; the multi-volume histories ; the ‘ complete ’ works ; the novels , plays and studies of and by yesterday 's men and women ; the giant topographical histories — the accumulated cultural and historical heritage that lies heavily on the stacks and on the reference shelves . |
| 14 | The solution lies firmly in the farmers ' own hands |