Example sentences of "[vb -s] in the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the rows and heartaches in the home crop up because adolescents think they are grown-up but the parents do n't agree . |
| 2 | It 's not the taking part that counts in the rush hour race it 's the winning . |
| 3 | The fault , if it is a fault , lies in the Interpretation Act 1978 Sch 1 , which states that for legal purposes a ‘ month ’ means a calendar month , and this applies to legislation since 1850 . |
| 4 | The fundamental difficulty with business ethics , thinks Mr Stark , lies in the way business schools have chosen to tackle it . |
| 5 | After the failure of dismal conventional buddy movies like Eddie Murphy 's Another 48 Hours , Ricochet 's success ( it grossed over $35 million in the States ) lies in the way director Mulcahy ( Highlander ) , producer Joel Silver ( Die Hard , Lethal Weapon , 48 Hours ) and scriptwriter Steven de Souza , have tampered with the blockbusting buddy film/action movie formula so stylishly . |
| 6 | Perhaps the clue to this imbalance lies in the title Mr James has chosen . |
| 7 | The critical difference between space–time inside and outside the horizon lies in the sign reversal of the metric coefficients at the surface . |
| 8 | For the winner of the Benson & Hedges Cup , the suggestion lies in the south east . |
| 9 | Responsibility for these services lies in the Assessment Services Department ; essential support services supplied by the Administration and Finance Department such as office services and computing have also been included within the scope of the quality system . |
| 10 | The majority of the work associated with the production of a probabilistic model lies in the development stages , with the production of a lexicon and the calculation of transition probabilities for the bigram and trigram transitions . |
| 11 | The truth lies in the Crown Prince 's own background . |
| 12 | North and north-east Lewis lies in the rain shadow of these hills ; the Uist machairs are too low-lying to receive much orographic precipitation , while St Kilda , with a summit at 426 m , is sufficiently high to develop highly localised weather conditions , with increased rainfall , humidity , cloud cover and wind exposure ( Campbell 1974 ) . |
| 13 | Given that a large part of Sears ' business lies in the fashion area , responsiveness to the whim of the customer is particularly critical . |
| 14 | The significance of the adult 's capacity to attribute meaning to actions which are not performed with communicative intent lies in the learning opportunities which are created by the adult response . |
| 15 | The field lies in the Sindh province in southern Pakistan within the Tajjal concession area . |
| 16 | The answer lies in the saturation behaviour . |
| 17 | Frith lies in the evening sky . |
| 18 | The main strength of the collection lies in the Rajput schools and the Akbari period of Mughal art , before the robust approach to representation had been refined into the imperial style and more formal composition . |
| 19 | One other major distinguishing characteristic of publishing lies in the monopoly feature that copyright imparts , which in turn invites high levels of corporate activity . |
| 20 | He steams in the morning cold , |
| 21 | For example , we expect to have two modes of b 2 symmetry , giving rise to two a-type bands in the IR spectrum of the gas . |
| 22 | Right I mean these are area 's in in this entertainments centre as it was called earlier on the entertainment being theatre and the gallery erm that may be utilised more i.e. jazz bands in the downstairs bar erm any other ideas I mean get people into the building then you 'll sell tickets to keep the place running . |
| 23 | The historic past is a reference to Alexander Wilson , a Paisley weaver , poet and famous ornithologist , whose statue stands in the Abbey grounds . |
| 24 | Soon to be subjected to major overhaul ex-GWR No.5619 stands in the bay platform at Toddington . |
| 25 | A gilt harp stands in the bay window . |
| 26 | The company who carried out the painting and varnishing of the large wooden replica of the Hunterston brooch which stands in the Visitor Centre at the station , JHB Decorators of Paisley , have been given a Merit Award by the Scottish Decorators Federation . |
| 27 | If every occurrence of X stands in the relation R to Y , and every occurrence of Y stands in the relation R ( or its converse , if R is asymmetric ) to X , then we shall say that X is a congruent R of Y : |
| 28 | If every occurrence of X stands in the relation R to Y , and every occurrence of Y stands in the relation R ( or its converse , if R is asymmetric ) to X , then we shall say that X is a congruent R of Y : |
| 29 | If every occurrence of X stands in the relation R to Y , but there are occurrences of Y which do not stand in the relation R to X , then we shall say that X is a hypo-R of Y , and Y a super-R of X : |
| 30 | There is one and only one element which stands in the relation R to all the other members of the set ( if R is transitive ) , or which stands either in the relation R or some higher power of R to all the other members of the set ( if R is intransitive ) . |