Example sentences of "that lie in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other treks cross the two fine Arctic National Parks , Uhro Kekkonen to the east , and Lemmenjoki park in the north , a park that links with the Øvre Anarjokka Park that lies in Norway , to the east of Kautokeino , capital of Norwegian Lappland . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They know , too , all the secret places of the bank : the nest of sandbags built during the War for the Home Guard ; the ruins of Marsh Edge Farm that lies in an angle of the tip hidden from the town ; the steps , cut in the slag-face , that lead down to the Ironworks Pier from which they can watch the boats . |
| 7 | In fog there is an atmosphere first of temper and then of inertia , followed by improvization and a peculiarly relieved conviviality , like the illogical sense of reprieve that lies in having to eat a carefully planned picnic lunch inside a car because it is pouring with rain outside . |
| 8 | Then , ‘ The light that lies in woman 's eyes has been my heart 's undoing ’ . ’ |
| 9 | It was low and cracked to begin with , then it rose up the scale , eerily , and shook out its top notes across the damp , half-lit glade until I really did think that my father had come not from the hospital but from some horribly , cold , empty region that lies in wait for us instead of all the heavens we have dreamed up to make things bearable . |
| 10 | There are some waters that lie in valleys where the wind has little if any influence on the water , apart from a scurrying ripple that makes little difference to the temperature layers , dissolved oxygen , or food distribution . |
| 11 | The wildly snaking curves in the left panel are the traces of orbits that lie in the corotation region . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Those that lie in local spaces having intersections with other spaces will be forced to have an association , if only in terms of their need to cohabit within the same region of the geometric domain . |
| 14 | The fisherman has high levels of mercury because he catches and eats large fish that lie in undisturbed pools and lagoons where methyl mercury settles , but so far he has no conclusive symptoms . |
| 15 | Thus , the points that lie in our " invariant set " ( the set of all points lying on intersections of the vertical and horizontal lines ) , each of which is taken by the return map to another such point , correspond one to one with symbolic sequences , infinite on the left , of Ts and Ss . |
| 16 | Watching him , teasing him , tickling him in the place he liked between his front legs , Nails idled the afternoon away , pushing out of his mind the horrors that lay in wait : the busybody care people poking their noses in , the job he had no fat chance of getting when he was out of school on his ear , no more riding at Biddy 's , no nothing at all , not even any certainty of keeping in touch with batty Firelight and her pushy baby . |
| 17 | This , however was a mere pin-prick compared to the actions that lay in store . |
| 18 | Anticipating this difficulty for their new employee , the oil company installed an incinerator loo which , at the press of a button , was triggered into fiery life as six flame-throwing nozzles squirting blazing diesel in all directions enveloping and consuming all that lay in its path . |
| 19 | Carnivores can be divided into those that lay in wait as opposed to actively hunting for their prey . |
| 20 | Yarnell launched 150 of his aircraft which arrived in less than an hour over Oahu , he now had the capability of destroying the ships that lay in Pearl Harbor . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Chinese fables spoke of the abyss that lay in the waters to the east . |
| 23 | Earlier writers had given hints of the rewards that lay in store for those who followed this intellectual path . |
| 24 | The Fabians recognized the dangers that lay in the establishment of a powerful centralized bureaucracy . |
| 25 | If it had a centre , that lay in the triangle formed by the cities of Angers , Tours and Poitiers . |
| 26 | Basic training and a posting to a Regiment lay ahead , all of it an unknown quantity , and my enthusiasm was so manifest because everything that lay in front of me was so foreign . |
| 27 | But for the great mass of the people , for the emergent working class , that lay in the future . |
| 28 | Forcing herself , she worked for an hour or two on the great heap of stuff purloined from the skips that lay in a corner of the hall ; fitting a curtain here , laying a rug there . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | Everything in the sun was old gold ; everything that lay in the shade was blue . |