Example sentences of "[noun] lie [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Ultimately the responsibility lies with the board , as the most experienced businessmen in the company and also , particularly , as those who look at the corporation as a whole . |
| 32 | But the NRA insist that the responsibility lies with the local Cheshire County Council . |
| 33 | ( c ) following an approach to the board of the target company , which may or may not lead to an offer , the primary responsibility lies with the board of the target , which must accordingly keep a close watch on its share price . |
| 34 | Tutor Viv Shelley will look at whether manufacturing industries are living up to the green images they promote , the adequacy of monitoring processes and ask what responsibility lies with the public . |
| 35 | Responsibility lies with the SROs , but it could be argued that they have insufficient resources to carry out this role , and should merely be ombudsmen ( although there is also some doubt as to their ability to act in this limited capacity given their degree of underfunding ) . |
| 36 | They need to be the product of shared work between head , governors , staff and , as far as possible , parents , but the main responsibility lies on the head . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | Policy co-ordination lies at the root of Japan 's financial troubles |
| 39 | Overall responsibility to the Academic Board and the Director for the health of the Course lies with the appointed Dean , who heads a small central team consisting of the Assistant Dean , Modular Course Co-ordinator and eleven senior tutors . |
| 40 | Although physiologically naive to suggest , as some have , that the seat of creativity lies in the right hemisphere , the latter 's contribution must be considered of unique importance , given what is known about its style of cognitive processing . |
| 41 | The job description lies at the heart of good recruitment and selection practice . |
| 42 | Models whose base lies under the rest of the template are hit by flying Hot Pot gloop on the D6 roll of a 4 , 5 or 6 . |
| 43 | Furthermore , it is now recognised that in learning language , children are doing far more than acquiring the rules of grammar and it may be that the key to the mastery of abstract grammatical rules lies in the socially mediated learning of functional language skills ( Bruner 1983 ; Halliday 1975 ; Wells 1981 ) . |
| 44 | All radiation in the spectrum lies in the visible region , so glass optics can be used , and this offers an important advantage over the IR region , where glass is unusable , and mechanically weaker salt optics or front-silvered mirrors must be employed . |
| 45 | The realm of Kislev lies to the east of the Empire . |
| 46 | The crag lies outside the main tourist haunts and even in high summer , when the midday sun can make it too hot to climb , an air of secrecy prevails . |
| 47 | ‘ The crux of military operations lies in the pretence of accommodating one 's self to the designs of the enemy . ’ |
| 48 | At a time when banks are being widely and often unfairly criticised , their best response lies in the maintenance of the high standards on which their calling has always rested . |
| 49 | The problem with the political-business cycle literature lies in the fact that it attempts to deal with the popularity of governments and the nature of public policy-making solely on the basis of a consideration of economic variables alone and so isolates the economic dimension out of the larger political context and ignores the vital part played by non-economic factors in contributing to electoral success . |
| 50 | Their case lies on the counter like a mussel , |
| 51 | The importance of the case lies in the general discussion of the principles of natural justice , especially that given by Lord Reid . |
| 52 | Under conditions of a clear parliamentary majority , the choice of when to hold an election lies with the Prime Minister . |
| 53 | If you look through all the short stories you know , I think you 'll find that the element of change lies at the bottom of each , like an insistent ground bass . |
| 54 | Much is now available to the individual school or college , in terms of adapting management structures , since the control of the LEA is reduced and responsibility for innovation and change lies with the institutions . |
| 55 | Ironically , the best hope for change lies in the failure of so many new drugs to make the grade . |
| 56 | Tucked in the south-east corner of Bavaria , just across the border from Austria and less than an hour from Salzburg , this dramatic resort lies in the heart of forest . |
| 57 | The generative power of the story lies with the organ of generation — and veneration . |
| 58 | The La lies on the watershed of the main Karakoram and although we were still politically in India , geographically we had reached the valleys of Central Asia . |
| 59 | A nice example of sophisticated linguistic play lies at the heart of Cele qui fu foutue et desfoutue : a tale in which a beautiful young woman , locked away in a tower by her jealous father , one day desires to buy a bird ( a crane ) from a young man passing by , and is told it will cost a foutre , a " fuck " . |
| 60 | 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 . |