Example sentences of "that lie in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , in flowering plants the haploid stage is reduced to the pollen tube , derived from a haploid pollen grain that falls on the stigma of a flower and grows until it reaches and fertilizes the egg cell that lies in the flower 's ovary . |
| 2 | Addressing an audience of sensible and clear-headed gentlemen — the sort of people who had produced the Bloodless Revolution of 1688 — Locke pictured himself as ‘ an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little , and removing much of the rubbish that lies in the way of knowledge ’ . |
| 3 | Its essential components are a two-stranded antiparallel β -ribbon that lies in the DNA major groove , two outer A helices available to make cooperative interactions with adjacent proteins along the DNA , and two inner B helices forming the subunit interface . |
| 4 | There is now evidence that the bulge is elongated in a direction that lies in the plane ; the Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy . |
| 5 | The wildly snaking curves in the left panel are the traces of orbits that lie in the corotation region . |
| 6 | Then , fourteen years later , after it had seemed that this strange fish had appeared only to disappear totally , another was caught , not off South Africa but a thousand miles away in Anjouan , one of the tiny Comoro Islands that lie in the Indian Ocean midway between Madagascar and the coast of Tanzania . |
| 7 | The taxi , an old Moskvich with torn upholstery , had laboured its way through the gears into Tobolsk , to the square brick police station that lay in the centre . |
| 8 | Chinese fables spoke of the abyss that lay in the waters to the east . |
| 9 | The Fabians recognized the dangers that lay in the establishment of a powerful centralized bureaucracy . |
| 10 | If it had a centre , that lay in the triangle formed by the cities of Angers , Tours and Poitiers . |
| 11 | But for the great mass of the people , for the emergent working class , that lay in the future . |
| 12 | Civil servants accepted ‘ the truths of political economy ’ ; it was the task of government to remove the obstacles that lay in the path of ‘ felicity ’ . |
| 13 | Everything in the sun was old gold ; everything that lay in the shade was blue . |
| 14 | Sam was gratified to be alone with his father and identified only the improvization and daring that lay in the situation , not the guilt and apprehension . |
| 15 | In some cases , owners substituted specialist crews of ‘ mercenaries ’ ( mostly Filipino , but sometimes German or British ) , ready to run almost any risk for the part of a voyage that lay in the war zone . |