Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] this lies [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the responsibility for this lies with the innate friendliness and courtesy of the peoples of Burma , and behind that the long record of the Buddhist tradition . |
| 2 | Perhaps the key to this lies in the realm of culture itself . |
| 3 | Perhaps the blame for this lies with the politicians . |
| 4 | Much of the blame for this lies with the Americans who shied away from disarming Somalia 's bandits and instead took guns from soft targets : small businessmen and relief-agency bodyguards . |
| 5 | The reason for this lies with the majority of match anglers being brainwashed into using gossamer-fine line and tiny hooks , no matter what the species or situation demands . |
| 6 | Part of the reason for this lies with the decentralised nature of the party membership records but it has also been conventional political wisdom that Conservative party members play an insignificant role in the determination of the party 's policies . |
| 7 | One crucial reason for this lies in the way only one element of Marxist work on the state is used by pluralist critics . |
| 8 | The reason for this lies in the fact that the physics depends neither on the states alone nor on the observables alone but upon their interrelation . |
| 9 | The reason for this lies in the limitations to which I have already referred . |
| 10 | The reason for this lies in the response of a polymer to an alternating stress . |
| 11 | My Lords , the short answer to this lies in the very extensive powers which Lord Chetwode [ the settlor ] had over the assets of the settlement and so over the share capital of Attleborough . |