Example sentences of "[verb] lie [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The foundations of interviewing lie in the mundane observation that individuals can report on what they feel , are , have , tell others about their lives , disclose what their hopes and fears are , offer their opinions , state what they believe in , say what they did last week , how much they spend on food , who they see regularly , and so on ; in short , they can impart masses of information about themselves .
2 However , all readers are entitled to assume that the conclusions they draw lie within a range shared by the narrator 's thoughts .
3 Each turn along the coast path reveals a beautiful sandy cove , or jagged rocks giving lie to the notion that this is just a pretty landscape .
4 Since the questions of apprenticeship and pay lie at the heart of the problem , we should first examine the surviving evidence to discover how long an apprenticeship women actually served , and how much they were paid , before going on to analyse the re-organization of the work process .
5 Some clues as to why this failed to happen lie in the campaign itself .
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