Example sentences of "[vb -s] in the " in BNC.
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| 31 | A jest 's prosperity lies in the ear |
| 32 | These are taught to the initiate to show him the accepted response to the vagaries of order , disorder , ambiguity , and ambivalence which lies in the complexities of social behaviour . |
| 33 | His ‘ real work ’ always lies in the bodily activity of physically capturing the ‘ prig ’ , often to have this dangerous business transformed by a detective who then negotiates justice with the adversary , in the essential CID cause of returning a good detection rate . |
| 34 | Its centre normally lies in the conflict between father and son ( of which Leonard never speaks ) and the ensuing guilt ( which , likewise , has no explicit reference ) , though the anger may have eclipsed that . |
| 35 | The answer largely lies in the music chosen , because music is usually , if not always , the source of the inspiration . |
| 36 | The originality of so much of Ashton 's and MacMillan 's choreography fur classical ballets lies in the way they follow the basic principles and rules in order to create an infinite variety of enchaînements from the traditional vocabulary of steps , and yet discard the conventions . |
| 37 | The difference lies in the rhythm of the pipe tune to which it is danced . |
| 38 | The strength of CAMRA lies in the voluntary nature of the organisation and the commitment of the members . |
| 39 | Dido 's sobbing for her old lover even as she lies in the arms of her new one — this melancholy , which Virgil , and following him Hardy , responded to with such sympathy , is for Pound deathly , it precludes the genuinely ‘ new ’ , which he urgently wants to find and to celebrate . |
| 40 | Compare him with Hawthorne , Henry James , E.A. Robinson and Edith Wharton : all these writers have their Waste Land , which is the aesthetic and emotional waste land of the Puritan character and their chief force lies in the intensity with which they communicate emotions of deprivation and chagrin . |
| 41 | The play 's chief problem lies in the fact that its Russian aspects , and particularly Slava 's mysterious second wife , refuse to become real . |
| 42 | The blame , said Mr Howerton , lies in the sophistication of the modern photocopier . |
| 43 | The way to police safety , which hits at those responsible without penalising innocent shareholders , lies in the risk of criminal prosecution of senior management and others , where profit is put before life and limb , Mr McIntosh added . |
| 44 | The danger , of course , lies in the fact that the deferred interest payments will be rolled up into the capital debt . |
| 45 | Another source of future friction lies in the failure of the congress to elevate Mr Pozsgay above other presidium members , some of whom had never been elected to a top party position . |
| 46 | But , ironically , the longer-term explanation lies in the restrictions Washington has maintained on Japanese car imports for almost a decade . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | The intervention is extraordinary , and to think of it otherwise risks ignoring how the interest of the play lies in the psychological , in the testing of our sympathy and understanding of the Macbeths . |
| 49 | The picture 's erotic charge lies in the juxtaposition of the external world and the ( normally ) concealed , in its urinal's-eye-view . |
| 50 | The reason why I continue to believe that Heseltine 's best chance of getting the Tory leadership lies in the aftermath of an election defeat has nothing to do with inside knowledge . |
| 51 | Only the return through poetry and childhood images to the final home which lies in the blank page following the moment when ‘ the fire and the rose are one , . |
| 52 | The key to the formation of the first National Government lies in the parliamentary arithmetic facing the second Labour government as it sought to implement its programme of economies in August 1931 . |
| 53 | The key to future economic growth in Africa lies in the markets which are being created as towns and cities expand . |
| 54 | The one big difference lies in the fundamentally rural character of feudalism . |
| 55 | For Engels its significance lies in the fact that it was seen as the basis of what was to be the most dramatic change in the history of mankind . |
| 56 | According to Hiro , ‘ the explanation of this difference of attitudes lies in the variation between the home environment of the Asian and English children . |
| 57 | Its chief importance to architectural history lies in the fact that it is a very early example of the work of J. Ninian ( later Sir Ninian ) Comper ( 1864–1960 ) , a notable church architect of the early twentieth century . |
| 58 | ‘ True individualism lies in the proper relationship of each person to society , ’ she said , primly . |
| 59 | The real interest of the past , he wrote , ‘ lies in the answer to the question , How did the ordinary undistinguished man live ? … and it is with a view to providing posterity with an addition to such all too scanty materials that the papers … have been embodied in permanent form . ’ |
| 60 | X-rays do n't reveal much , either , since the inflammation lies in the soft tissues and not in the joints . |