Example sentences of "'s [noun] lie [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taliesin laughed , and Fael-Inis said , ‘ Why did you accompany Fergus and Fribble ? ’ and Taliesin glanced involuntarily to where Fergus 's body lay on the velvet-covered couch beneath the window that looked out on to the forest . |
| 2 | Behind him , Paxton 's body lay amongst the frozen dancers and entertainers smiling down blankly as if welcoming him . |
| 3 | The Anglicans were divided — the stoutest of Irish Protestants versus a few stiff Anglo-Catholic parishes ; and in a fight the sympathies of Ramsey 's parish lay with the second . |
| 4 | Pinch 's interests lie on the editorial side . |
| 5 | ‘ The local authority 's duty lies through the public law provisions . ’ |
| 6 | Gramont 's lands lay on the northern frontier of Béarn , and he , like Albret , was a vassal of the Plantagenet king-duke of Aquitaine . |
| 7 | The second major problem with Comte 's positivism lies at the other end of his hierarchy , at the level of the social . |
| 8 | Perhaps the Met 's problem lies in the present state of museum affairs , where the ideal curator combines impeccable scholarship and connoisseurship with a golden ability to raise acquisition funds and attract and nurture prospective donors . |
| 9 | The root of the East German church 's involvement lies in the agonising sense of guilt and self-accusation among many clergy during and after the Second World War for not having spoken out against the Nazis in time . |
| 10 | St George 's Channel lies between the Welsh and Irish coasts so , unless Captain Bunsby is even more confused than he appears , he must be referring to some smaller channel off the eastern coast of Kent in DS 23 , since the Goodwins and the Downs are both in that region . |
| 11 | The selectors had brought Bobby Simpson back to international cricket to skipper the side , while India 's hopes lay with the well-respected Bishan Bedi . |
| 12 | Rosengarten 's forte lay in the fine arts , painting and sculpture in particular , to which he committed himself at McGill ahead of Leonard . |