Example sentences of "[noun] lay with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emphasizing the failure of the courts to resolve civil disputes within a reasonable period of time , Kidder argues that the fault lay with the structure of typical disputes in India . |
| 2 | But equally if a school does not matter to a pupil because the school itself does not try hard enough , there is as much risk to the achievement of a sound education as would arise if all the fault lay with the child 's own family . |
| 3 | The Taylor report found some responsibility for the tragedy lay with the stadium 's management , some with the fans and some with the South Yorkshire police , and suggested that senior officers had been dubious witnesses . |
| 4 | Until 1858 , when the state set up a new administrative body at Somerset House , the responsibility for proving wills lay with the church . |
| 5 | Their lives lay with the capitalist world he had hated so bitterly in his own youth . |
| 6 | The blame lay with the DES , which had thought that ‘ establishing polytechnics was just an administrative exercise ’ . |
| 7 | The success of these courses at centres whose natural affinities lay with the London rather than the Eastern District led to the latter 's willing agreement to transfer its expanding , populous southern commuter zone to the former in the summer of 1930 . |
| 8 | But the south , witnessing the brilliant array of fighting men that the north could so amply provide , and their foreign tongue and alien ways , might well think their better safety lay with the enemy . |
| 9 | In one case , Wards Cove Packing Co v Atonio , the court ruled that the onus lay with the plaintiff to prove a precise case of discrimination . |
| 10 | In such a situation the initiative lay with the attacker . |
| 11 | With rare exceptions complete authority over the affairs and property of the taravad lay with the eldest male , the karanavan . |
| 12 | For to do so would suggest that salvation lay with the appointment of Arthur Scargill to the TCCB . |
| 13 | The confrontation was due to the ambiguity in Poland 's Constitution about whether supreme responsibility for security lay with the President or with the Cabinet . |
| 14 | Perhaps the outstanding legacy of Napoleon 's invasion lay with the bevy of experts he had brought with him who created the " Institute d'Egypte " producing numerous volumes that were to launch Egyptology in the Western academic world and , in time , to remind educated Egyptians of former glories . |
| 15 | His sympathies lay with the independents such as Henderson and Nixon ( who at one point in the 1930s constituted , in the absence of the nationalists , the official opposition at Stormont ) , but the Unionists had not yet shown the degree of liberalism they were to show under O'Neill in the 1960s and Paisley confined himself to promoting various ‘ ginger group ’ enterprises on the margins of politics . |
| 16 | David Thomson in Woodbrook , quotes extensively from the diaries of an Ascendancy-class bishop whose sympathies lay with the Irish poor . |
| 17 | Moreover , Don Juan 's sympathies lay with the Allies , which contributed to making his followers in Spain believe that they could look to the Western democracies in general , and to Great Britain in particular , for support . |
| 18 | To place foreign affairs in the hands of a man whose sympathies lay with the losing side seemed both out of character for Franco and politically inept . |
| 19 | The decision whether to admit or exclude evidence lay with the court of trial . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , he did not deny that so far as the kingdom of England was concerned , the decision between the two rivals lay with the king . |
| 22 | Legislative authority lay with the parliament : as of March 21 , the former Constituent Assembly was converted into the National Assembly , with 72 members serving a five-year term , the lower house of a bicameral parliamentary structure . |
| 23 | The bones of the wolf lay with the bones of the man . |
| 24 | The dominant power behind the movement in church building lay with the monastic orders who developed their own individual style ( on Romanesque patterns ) to suit the needs of the order . |
| 25 | In response to an outline of the CNAA 's difficulties the DES officers expressed the view that the difficulty lay with the Committee for Education , ‘ which appeared to take a divergent and insufficiently flexible view ’ on the question of devising course units in common between the BEd and other courses . |
| 26 | The greater part dealt with the Greek colonies but his heart lay with the Scyths and their affinities , a topic which he addressed in his 1942 British Academy lecture , The Art of the Northern Nomads ( 1944 ) . |
| 27 | Initially the advantage lay with the Lords of the Congregation ; by the end of June , they had driven the regent 's troops out of Fife , had regained Perth and moved in on Edinburgh , where , on 7 July , Knox was appointed minister . |
| 28 | But the real defence lay with the supremely powerful Royal Navy . |
| 29 | He seems to have recognized — at least he did not dissent from the view — that so far as England was concerned , the choice lay with the king . |
| 30 | Even then his interests lay with the disadvantaged groups . |