Example sentences of "[vb -s] in [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new " aspect lies in entering the information at the microcomputer keyboard , having specified the number of fields , field names and position of fields in each record according to the design decisions reached earlier . |
| 2 | A highly specialised profession , open to barristers and solicitors and indeed to those who are neither , is that of Parliamentary Agent , whose work lies in promoting and opposing Bills and Departmental Orders . |
| 3 | The way to recovery lies in learning to place that blame where it belongs , to use the anger it arouses and to give yourself the praise you deserve just for surviving the abuse . |
| 4 | The boldness of this interpretation lies in allowing the validity of the trust even though it had not been addressed to the daughter and had not been intended to be paid by her . |
| 5 | Their value for the reader lies in enlarging or changing our perceptions , in helping us to break out from a deadening routine ; in short , the carnivalesque : ‘ The prophets of extremity put up a distorting mirror against our world — but one which properly attended to , can tell us something about that world , and about the possibilities of changing it , or changing ourselves . ’ |
| 6 | The key to freeing the body to regain its lost dignity lies in inhibiting the unconscious habit of muscle tension ; only then may we perform actions in such a way that they become as much a joy to carry out as they are to watch . |
| 7 | It may well be that as , perhaps , in the teaching of reading , so in the teaching of writing , the real art lies in discerning the approach that best suits the individual writer for a particular type of compositional task . |
| 8 | As Holly puts it : " One of the skills required by the resources approach , in fact , lies in achieving a nice balance between independent working , group discussion and direct exposition by the teacher . " |
| 9 | Only , as Italy shows , if electoral advantage lies in espousing reform . |
| 10 | Yet the interest lies in seeing the distinction between direct and precatory words being used as a test . |
| 11 | There was what has come to be called the inverted story , that is , a mystery which begins with the murderer being seen to commit the murder and in which the interest lies in seeing how he will not get away with it despite that apparent perfection of his method . |
| 12 | Among these borderline cases will come the short-story version of the inverted detective story we have already looked at , the story where the murderer is known to the reader from the outset and the pleasure lies in seeing how , inadvertently , he betrays himself , or she herself . |
| 13 | The problem lies in using that information for selection . |
| 14 | With these people the remedy lies in pointing out the responsibility that faith requires . |
| 15 | Looking ahead , Worswick believes that LGC 's commercial success lies in repackaging its services in a form that suits the customer , as well as developing new services and rationalising old ones . |
| 16 | For these methods , used to regulate consumption on the basis of a drop in the economic power of the town relative to the village , will be quite inappropriate to a state of affairs whose basis lies in developing the productive forces … |
| 17 | The problem lies in sustaining the speech , for Mercutio is a hearty and boisterous character , seemingly at odds with the mischief and delicacy of this speech . |
| 18 | The difficulty lies in creating good vertical results . |
| 19 | The other half of it lies in mobilising party and public support sufficiently strongly to leave Mrs Thatcher with no choice but to readmit him to the Cabinet if the Tories do return to office after the next election . |
| 20 | Its strength lies in transmitting factual information where a telephone call may disrupt a meeting or colleague 's thought processes or where you can not see if an office door is open or closed . |
| 21 | The answer lies in drawing a distinction between Israel and its present government . |
| 22 | The ending of this novel begins with William Golding looking down on Ralph , as he lies in hiding after his confrontation with Jack and the death of his friend Piggy . |
| 23 | The difficulty lies in heating the fuel to temperatures of about 100 million degrees centigrade and in containing any substance heated to such a temperature . |
| 24 | The difference lies in bringing together and summarizing facts and opinions , to produce a judgement . |
| 25 | I look forward to the lessons and always feel better immediately , but the difficulty with me lies in trying to maintain my awareness between the lessons , but this is gradually becoming easier . |
| 26 | One of the main problems in relocating an organisation to another part of the country lies in trying to predict how many employees will move with it . |
| 27 | The fascination lies in trying to discover if she reveals anything of her true , gentle persona . |
| 28 | The skill lies in choosing the right production company and working harmoniously with them . |
| 29 | On the contrary , I must know how things look to me : my only error lies in choosing the wrong words to describe it . |
| 30 | The art of search lies in choosing a short sequence of operators which will lead the search to a goal quickly . |