Example sentences of "[noun] lay [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defences on the Danube had been neglected , for as long as the frontier lay on the Dniester the inhabitants of Moesia believed themselves to be secure . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | One soldier lay on the ground like a blazing torch . |
| 4 | She and the soldier lay on the grass ; |
| 5 | Similar thinking lay behind the setting up of the British National Film League in 1921 to ‘ encourage the production and exhibition of British-made films ’ . |
| 6 | As we passed the dam , a little snow lay on the shingle plains and the rivers were a mere shadow of their former selves . |
| 7 | ‘ Last time we came , back in February , ’ reminisced a companion , ‘ snow lay on the ground . |
| 8 | Silver plumes of snow lay across the peaks . |
| 9 | Over on the dressing-table , one of her notebooks lay alongside the photograph album . |
| 10 | The optimism lay in the potential for development in the hitherto largely neglected extra-metropolitan southern fringe of the District . |
| 11 | An expensive handbag lay on the table , and she was reading the morning paper in a perfectly ordinary way . |
| 12 | A crocodile handbag lay on the table and she had just slipped off her new Italian shoes . |
| 13 | Leicestershire lay at the very heart of open-field England . |
| 14 | Badgeworth lay in the depths of the country , and there had been a lot of heavy rain of late . |
| 15 | A red weal lay across the lines of his forehead like a strawberry mark . |
| 16 | TWO illusions lay at the heart of Iran-contra . |
| 17 | While Donna lay in the bathtub , inaccurately bawling the bits she could remember of My Fair Lady , Alex dialled Matthew 's number , only to find that he had switched on his answering machine . |
| 18 | In his velvet-lined chamber , Piers Gaveston lay under the great , silken canopy of his four-poster bed , chewing his lip and wondering what would happen next . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Thomas Edwards suggested that the fault lay in the way the book was assembled . |
| 22 | This change is often described as being from a general tendency to blame the fecklessness and idleness of the poor for their poverty , to recognition that the fault lay in the structure of the economy ; from a ‘ moral ’ to an ‘ economic ’ diagnosis . |
| 23 | The key lay in the uncontrolled growth of London . |
| 24 | The wounded who were carried in from the attack on the Rebecca lay in the shade under the trees while their hurts were being dressed . |
| 25 | When she reached her room Lucy lay on the bed to review the situation , the main point occupying her mind being the fact that Silas was not yet married to Doreen . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , General George Campbell , with a force of some 1,500 men had crossed the north ford , from North Uist to Benbecula ; two warships lay off the coast and the commander , Captain Scott , added a further 700 men to the hunting party . |
| 27 | Branches lay across the bacon slicer , ready for lopping . |
| 28 | Branches lay across the mouth of a pottery urn , their budding twigs stiff and still in a difficult death . |
| 29 | The monastery lay beside the Arghuri rivulet in the lower part of a great chasm which extended almost to the very summit of the mountain . |
| 30 | Although armed force lay in the background of every statesman 's consciousness , it was not the normal instrument of competition between states . |