Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | One soldier lay on the ground like a blazing torch . |
| 3 | She and the soldier lay on the grass ; |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | As we passed the dam , a little snow lay on the shingle plains and the rivers were a mere shadow of their former selves . |
| 6 | ‘ Last time we came , back in February , ’ reminisced a companion , ‘ snow lay on the ground . |
| 7 | Silver plumes of snow lay across the peaks . |
| 8 | The optimism lay in the potential for development in the hitherto largely neglected extra-metropolitan southern fringe of the District . |
| 9 | An expensive handbag lay on the table , and she was reading the morning paper in a perfectly ordinary way . |
| 10 | A crocodile handbag lay on the table and she had just slipped off her new Italian shoes . |
| 11 | A red weal lay across the lines of his forehead like a strawberry mark . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Thomas Edwards suggested that the fault lay in the way the book was assembled . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The key lay in the uncontrolled growth of London . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Although armed force lay in the background of every statesman 's consciousness , it was not the normal instrument of competition between states . |
| 19 | But he might at least be " useful " , as he had wanted , and part of that usefulness lay in the fact that , on one level at least , his poetry could have a public and national purpose — although , when the war had been won , he no longer cared to draw attention to those aspects of it . |
| 20 | However , Lord Justice Watkins disagreed and said he saw no difficulty in imposing upon the assessment officer the duty to discover what intention lay behind the reduction of capital . |
| 21 | The moon was high above them as they walked cautiously through the dark forest and the pale , eerie light lay across the woodland path , cold and unfriendly . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The danger for the future lay in the fact that the conflict between Austria-Hungary and Russia in the Balkans was still there . |
| 24 | She had brought things to make their evening meal and she emptied them on to the work-counter : wine , cheese , spinach , onions , bread , the pink-white tines of a rack of lamb , as if all the promise of their future lay in the guarantee of such ordinariness being possible . |
| 25 | He put these with his haul from the kitchen and crossed the room to where a pile of mail lay on the mat inside the front door , pausing on the way to look at some of the framed photographs and certificates that were arranged along the mantelshelf . |
| 26 | There existed a second manor of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul 's Cathedral , close to Chesewic , and that manor lay between the river and Turnham Green and was called Sutton which it is thought probably derived its name from South Town . |
| 27 | A dead hare lay on the trampled ground , its neck twisted . |
| 28 | To either side great chunks of masonry lay in the tall grasses , pieces of fallen statuary among them . |
| 29 | He informed Prime Minister Kosygin that the ZOPFAN proposal was ‘ not directed at anyone and no one is excluded ’ , that its essence lay in the recognition and harmonisation of the legal interests of all the parties in Southeast Asia , of both the countries actually located in the region and of other powers . |
| 30 | The vicarage lay to the north of the church adjoining the graveyard ; the original eighteenth-century vicarage had been modernised , Theodora noticed regretfully , by the addition of two large bay windows on the ground floor either side of the front door . |