Example sentences of "[vb -s] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until then the diet of the wealthy was rich in spices and sugar and involved mixing fruit , both fresh and dried , with meat — a tradition which still lingers in such things as Christmas mincemeat . |
| 2 | Erm and any other service reckonable service that counts in that calculation . |
| 3 | Correctly feeling that Miranda thought she was being tiresome , she added , ‘ What counts in this tiff — as you call it — is the principle of the thing . ’ |
| 4 | Indeed , Leonard 's main recollection of his father lies in that style , rather than more personal attributes or memories , and he is wont to describe him with his top hat and gloves , his cane and spats , and miniature service medals . |
| 5 | The crudest joke against the human race lies in that sweaty farce by which we are first formed and given life . |
| 6 | The crudest joke against the human race lies in that sweaty farce by which we are first formed and given life . |
| 7 | ‘ The crudest joke against the human race lies in that sweaty farce by which we are first formed and given life — ’ the words caught his eye . |
| 8 | But the centre of gravity lies in that consciousness itself . |
| 9 | As the reader may already have guessed , the solution again lies in that endlessly resourceful answer to moral dilemmas — witchcraft . |
| 10 | Peter Brook ( 1968 ) , the legendary director of the Royal Shakespeare Company , has suggested that the magic of the theatre lies in that moment when fiction and life somehow blend together . |
| 11 | The history of your physical and emotional health lies in that envelope . |
| 12 | His destiny lies in that city . |
| 13 | The origin of the Bank Assistant Grade , Bank of Ireland lies in that Bank 's Plan for Improved Competitiveness , introduced in 1988 . |
| 14 | The bigger reason lies in that list of prominent critics . |
| 15 | The national interest lies in all the nation 's resources being put to the most advantageous use possible . |
| 16 | You 're probably wondering where the point lies in all this . |
| 17 | For Althusser , power lies in all of the structures . |
| 18 | I wanted as far as possible to forearm the boy at the beginning of adolescence — not ramming a weapon into his hand willy-nilly , but showing him the size and shape of it and where it lies in such a way that he would take it up without realizing he was doing so and find himself using it when he needed to . |
| 19 | The likely truth lies in those still-sealed files on chemical warfare experiments — but the riddle of Shingle Street refuses to be buried after more than half a century . |
| 20 | The ‘ common low level ’ lies in those people who acquiesce in this shameful pastime and , tut-tutting at the evidence of the cruelty , ‘ pass by on the other side ’ . |
| 21 | The art of the gold box is traditionally held to be epitomised in the Paris tabatières , but the strength of this collection also lies in those boxes which were produced in peripheral workshops , especially in Germany and Russia . |
| 22 | An exception lies in those children in whom obsessive , aggressive or bizarre sexual activity shows evidence at least of a conscious knowledge of the import of the activity itself . |
| 23 | And the explanation for all of this lies in those stones . |
| 24 | The real Lotus advantage , however , lies in those 3D worksheets , and in this respect version 3.4 still manages to outdo most of the GUI opposition in multi-dimensional calculating . |
| 25 | And yet the drama lies in this , wrote Harsnet , that perhaps the Bride really wishes to remain only a bride , at the moment of her bridity , and the bachelors only bachelors , at the moment of their bachelorhood , dangling together like pegs on a line , boys together at eternal stag party , as the bride a virgin forever in her dream of giving herself up to something else , crossing the threshold to another existence . |
| 26 | Recognizing all this , and being shown too where the power lies in this social order , the politics of inversion become persuasive , perhaps irresistible ; this is Moll , about to thrash the predatory Laxton : ‘ I scorn to prostitute myself to a man , /that can prostitute a man to me ’ ( iii . |
| 27 | The key to learning and progress lies in this support . |
| 28 | I am totally convinced that the solution to the search for ways to handle disruptive pupils lies in this impressive body of evidence and recommendations . |
| 29 | In the case of the farmhouses & country cottages , we feel we should mention that they mainly are of great age & rustic nature — indeed there very charm lies in this fact . |
| 30 | In practice , little danger lies in this ambiguity . |