Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] lie [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Examples of this reciprocal effect lie in the man who is engrossed in his work to the detriment of his married life or the woman who is so wrapped up in her children that she has little time for her husband . |
| 2 | Aspects of sexual law which have relevance for social work lie in the following Acts . |
| 3 | The origins of this popular movement lie in the first wave of pressure for disarmament , which began with the emergence of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ( CND ) in 1958 and ended in 1964 , with its decline in the face of the new Labour Government 's failure to rid itself of nuclear weapons . |
| 4 | The issues of freedom of conscience and freedom from Roman hegemony lie at the centre of Northern Ireland fundamentalism and are meshed in with its evangelical tenets . |
| 5 | These doubts about the merit of a blind pursuit of perfect competition lie behind the UK policy and the judgements of the MMC . |
| 6 | The origins of the foundation of this great national collection lie in a body of private individuals — the Society of the Patriotic Friends of the Arts — founded in 1779 , under the protection of Count Caspar Sternberg , who also founded the National Museum ( see p. 149 ) . |
| 7 | A substance can condense to form a cloud if its temperature and its partial pressure lie within the liquid- or solid-phase regions of its phase diagram . |
| 8 | A dry cattle drink in June may be a superb barbel lie in a January flood ! |
| 9 | Most of the other stars that are visible to the naked eye lie within a few hundred light-years of us . |
| 10 | Statu tory power and financial leverage lie with the centre , but local political legitimacy , accepted ‘ rules of the game ’ and professional knowledge lie locally . |
| 11 | It is important to recognize that the origins of the modern nation-state lie in the achievement of a monopoly of force within a given territory . |
| 12 | The roots of modern pharmacology lie in the empirical discoveries of the past century , when medical men found that single therapeutic agents could effect seemingly miraculous cures . |
| 13 | Learning difficulties for both first and second language speakers without an academic background lie in the abstractions which are made possible by certain specific linguistic mechanisms . |