Example sentences of "[conj] lie at [art] " in BNC.
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1 | THE NOBEL Prize for physics has been awarded to three scientists who developed ultra-precise techniques that lie at the heart of modern atomic clocks . |
2 | 17 Throughout our work we were acutely aware of the differing opinions that are held on a number of issues that lie at the heart of the English curriculum and its teaching . |
3 | The starry-eyed idealists who start revolutions , he told himself , are incapable of visualising the horrors that lie at the end of them . |
4 | It is a lack of respect , a feeling of our own superiority and our pride that lie at the root of this response . |
5 | The aim is that entertainment on pay-TV will pay for the more innovative plans , including two way transactions down the cables , that lie at the heart of the cabling idea . |
6 | In his presidential address to the Society for the Study of Social Problems , Wheeler ( 1976 ) claimed that ‘ the patterns of illegal activity that lie at the core of large-scale corporate , industrial society … have been almost totally neglected ’ . |
7 | This point is made not in the interests of pedantry , but because it bears directly on the criticisms of current approaches to the global system that lie at the heart of this book . |
8 | Not only does Dame Sirith advertise her professional ability to repeat the trick , or to obtain for a man the woman he wants in the way he wants , and thus anticipate her ability to star in an extended series of fabliaux that the poet may tell , but the language and prosody convey certain points that lie at the heart of the fabliau perspective . |
9 | Not only has he again fallen flat on the ground , but his head and his hands have broken off and lie at the entrance of the building . |
10 | In the end the choices rest with the Cabinet and lie at the heart of modern politics . |