Example sentences of "[noun pl] that lie " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the only exits are through the roof , he must rise to the occasion — find a key that controls the fans that lie directly underneath them , and float up on a jet of fresh air ! |
| 2 | Then , having settled their men and their stewards and their womenfolk , if they had any , they moved eastwards to do the same for themselves and for others along the course of the Forth , and to drift , with an inquisitive eye , through the hills and croplands that lay southwards in Northumbrian hands . |
| 3 | Language thus contributes to an atmosphere in the fabliaux that lies above and outside the describable details of character and setting : an all-enveloping " feeling " of sensuality , shared by the real people involved — the authors and their anticipated readers/audiences — via the medium of the tale . |
| 4 | Yet there 's been no increase in demand from advocates of ‘ organic ’ vegetables for the tens of thousands of allotments that lie untended throughout our land . |
| 5 | You may feel that an idea of this sort is what will give you the most charge to get through the sixty , seventy or eighty thousand words that lie between you and a finished manuscript , let alone the weeks of researching that may be necessary and the dense hours of hard thinking . |
| 6 | My mother , not believing in idleness and thinking of the long months that lay ahead of me , decided I should learn embroidery . |
| 7 | He tried to take in the surrounding countryside that was to be his home during the months that lay ahead — if he lived that long . |
| 8 | How you do this will depend upon your own personality and your relationship with her , but however it is done , the message she will be hoping to receive through your words and actions will be that you care , you sympathise , and that you are going to stand by her and give her all the help and comfort you can in the months that lie ahead . |
| 9 | In the months that lie ahead there will be a series of Dances usually once per month on a Friday night from 8 p.m. until midnight dancing to big band music with bar and refreshments . |
| 10 | The wildly snaking curves in the left panel are the traces of orbits that lie in the corotation region . |
| 11 | The asteroids are small , mainly rocky bodies , most of which occupy orbits that lie between Mars and Jupiter . |
| 12 | CEPRA hopes that the development of community radio will help people to gain a better understanding of their problems and the solutions open to them , and a greater awareness of the opportunities that lie ahead . |
| 13 | But it also has relevance to the pro-active marketing of credit and , to my mind , nicely illustrates the crossroads the industry has reached and the opportunities that lie beyond it . |
| 14 | I am convinced this is right and that the Institute must unify the profession and provide leadership for the threats and opportunities that lie ahead . |
| 15 | Again she looked about her , this time with eyes that moved , surprised , between the broken shapes that lay littered about the room . |
| 16 | The boy was sitting up , watching him , his dark , over-large eyes puzzling over the shapes that lay there on the cloth . |
| 17 | No definitive explanations have been worked out for the differences between the two concentrations that lie 3000 kilometres apart in Antarctica . |
| 18 | Throughout this book I have suggested that it is important , in training children , to convey a reasonably coherent idea of the aims and objects that lie behind the training and supervision . |
| 19 | Similarly , twentieth-century feminists used the importance attached to motherhood to argue for an economic and sexual independence antithetical to the patriarchal attitudes that lay behind theories of sexual difference and maternalism . |
| 20 | That must change if prosecutions are to succeed in the BCCI and Maxwell cases that lie ahead . |
| 21 | She glanced across at the dog-eared book of maps that lay on the passenger-seat beside her . |
| 22 | Now he looked again at the two betting-slips that lay on the table in front of him ; then turned to the back of the Business section for the Sport , his eye running down the results of the previous day 's racing at Fontwell Park . |
| 23 | The Fabians recognized the dangers that lay in the establishment of a powerful centralized bureaucracy . |
| 24 | No I do n't think there were , there might have been one or two , yes I do know one that used to make some form of er something for the saddlery trade and you know those houses opposite the alms houses in Road , there are some alms houses on the one side , then there 's some houses that lie up steps on the other side of the road if they 're still there . |
| 25 | Only those who have shown the resolve to defend the freedom of the West can be trusted to safeguard it in the challenging , turbulent and unpredictable times that lie ahead . ’ |
| 26 | Earlier writers had given hints of the rewards that lay in store for those who followed this intellectual path . |
| 27 | One of the many tank-traps that lie ahead : senility 's revenge . |
| 28 | We played with the ship 's monkey and had a wonderful time , while around us the dockers unloaded the cargo into barges that lay alongside . |
| 29 | Newcomers often found work in areas that lay outside the jurisdiction of the Lord Mayor and Corporation , in what had once been rural manors ; they moved constantly from one district to another . |
| 30 | As can be seen from figure 7.1 , these cover a number of coastal zones as well as upland areas that lie outside the parks , such as the Quantocks , Cotswolds , Chilterns and Sussex Downs . |