Example sentences of "[noun] lay at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The port of Ventspils lay at the end of a pipeline which brought Siberian oil for export , providing one-third of Soviet hard-currency income . |
| 2 | Leicestershire lay at the very heart of open-field England . |
| 3 | TWO illusions lay at the heart of Iran-contra . |
| 4 | Their post-war reconciliation lay at the heart of its foundations and the Franco-German axis is still its ‘ motor ’ . |
| 5 | The letter bearing the Belgian stamp lay at the bottom of the morning 's post . |
| 6 | But the party 's MEP , Jim Nicholson , dismissed the claims as ‘ utter nonsense ’ and said the blame lay at the door of the Northern Ireland Office . |
| 7 | Mabel Peacock suggests ( Folklore 15 , 1944 ) that as Stamford lay at the junction of Rutland , Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire , perhaps ‘ the men of these shires anciently met by the Welland to observe the traditional rites intended to secure the prosperity of their territories ’ . |
| 8 | Cambridge lay at the heart of his education and his career . |
| 9 | He points out that the reporting of the Brixton riot was marked by a discursive struggle between the ‘ law-and-order discourse ’ and a ‘ contra-discourse ’ , which sought to demystify ‘ the hitherto unproblematic position of the police ’ , by emphasising the possibility that police harassment and brutality lay at the root of the disorder . |
| 10 | His room lay at the very end of the corridor , beyond the locked doors of closets and bedrooms and attic steps . |
| 11 | Her body lay at the rest in the chapel downstairs , the light filtering in through lancet windows on her oak coffin and the dark-stained , hand-carved pews . |
| 12 | And last night it was revealed that the murdered child 's body lay at the scene for over four hours because of fears of another blast . |
| 13 | According to the Social Purity Alliance , founded in 1873 , male vice lay at the heart of the problem of immorality . |
| 14 | The railway station lay at the heart of all these developments . |
| 15 | Although the popularity of the war economy lay at the root of the growth of socialism during the First World War , liberal internationalism was quick to reassert itself once the war was over . |
| 16 | In Sussex both Lewes and Steyning lay at the foot of the South Downs on the edge of the Weald . |
| 17 | Most interviewers knew that a mass of inconsistencies lay at the heart of Labour 's campaign , but getting Mr Kinnock to trip over them was another matter . |
| 18 | Radical changes in Defence policy lay at the root of Macmillan 's aspirations . |
| 19 | Social relations lay at the heart of lived experience . |
| 20 | Its designated area lay at the heart of one of the most economically depressed cities in Western Europe which had suffered a massive withdrawal of private capital during the previous three decades and endured a series of political traumas in the process ( Parkinson , 1985 , Figure 3.1 ) . |
| 21 | However , as he gained experience with his new system of therapeutics , he realized that inherited tendencies lay at the root of many chronic health problems and he developed a further class of remedies , which he called nosodes , to counteract these inherited traits . |
| 22 | I lay on my back , my head on the sandy ground , staring out to the side where the body of the buck lay at the end of a little curved line of black , and tangled in the arm-rest and grip of the catapult . |
| 23 | Militant feminists pointed out that sexual antagonism lay at the heart of the suffrage struggle and could never be resolved within the discourse of political liberalism . |
| 24 | A roll of corduroy lay at the end of the counter . |
| 25 | What I did not realise then — but what I would discover the moment I embarked on my journey to those front doors — was that I had touched upon the essence of the Arab–Israeli war ; that while the existence of the Palestinians and their demand for a nation lay at the heart of the Middle East crisis , it was the contradiction inherent in the claims to ownership of the land of Palestine — the ‘ homeland ’ of the Jews in Balfour 's declaration — which generated the anger and fear of both Palestinians and Israelis . |
| 26 | Watchers on the Springburn Hill saw the shadows creep across the valley until the city lay at the bottom of a deep pit of shadow , dwarfed by a gargantuan wall of night that marched across the southern hills from Cathkin to the Gleniffer Braes . |
| 27 | I had known that open fields lay at the end of the runway , so I should have closed the throttle earlier and completed the familiar drill . |
| 28 | For Reich , therefore , the petit bourgeois partriarchal family lay at the heart of fascism . |
| 29 | Only the grease lay at the bottom of the bowl . |