Example sentences of "[vb -s] to lie [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With no soil fauna , organic material tends to lie on the surface rather than being incorporated into the sand . |
| 2 | The problem appears to lie with the sofa : it is the wrong colour . |
| 3 | The fundamental problem appears to lie in the balance of power within the NHS as an organisation . |
| 4 | The answer seems to lie with the power of God . |
| 5 | Consequently , the choice seems to lie between the lysine analogues , tranexamic acid and -aminocaproic acid , and the serine protease inhibitors ( SERPINs ) , aprotinin , nefamostat , and gabexate . |
| 6 | The answer seems to lie in the past . |
| 7 | Maturity , at least for me , seems to lie in the discovery that happiness and circumstances do n't have all that much to do with each other ; that happiness is more a matter of choice and habit than we suppose , and less dependent upon the accident of circumstances . |
| 8 | Again , the answer seems to lie in the way that the reformulation draws the hearer 's attention to the differences between just being gone and having vanished . |
| 9 | A greater chance of success seems to lie in the sequel . |
| 10 | The fault or flaw here seems to lie in the woman 's original dissatisfaction . |
| 11 | The solution seems to lie in the fact that the amounts which later become due ( interest ) are consequent on the debt that is being released . |
| 12 | The explanation for this seems to lie in the nature of gardening . |