Example sentences of "[vb pp] lie [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any composition derived by their technique is constrained to lie within the narrow triangular region of the plate delimited by the three minerals used in their modal reconstruction . |
| 2 | The observer pegs one end of a string of length r to a fixed point O and then makes a circuit round O so that the string is all the while fully stretched , but of course confined to lie in the surface . |
| 3 | In South Uist , a valley called Allt Volagir is considered to lie on a north — south trending fault , which may represent an off-set of the Outer Hebrides Thrust . |
| 4 | Entities and models can be considered as elements within the set that describes their assembly , and each of these geometric entities is considered to lie within a local space . |
| 5 | Remembering now how she had felt lying on the bed with Harry 's arms around her , his mouth against hers , she felt like crying with frustration . |
| 6 | ‘ Then how do you explain this ? ’ he said , reaching for a folder that she had n't noticed lying at the end of the settee . |
| 7 | He was familiar with the mortuary , and he knew where the body he had last seen lying in the mud would be . |
| 8 | But it is just such a view that could be said to lie at the heart of a second major theory of social stratification that has emerged more recently in sociology : the functionalist theory of stratification . |
| 9 | This , and the growing trend in American society to express displeasure more vociferously and outspokenly than in the past , is said to lie at the root of recent player-directed violence ( ibid.:204–5 ) . |
| 10 | In the Gesta this genealogy creates a sharp contrast between the kings and the counts of Anjou , whose origins are said to lie in a ‘ new man ’ , a forester of the reign of Charles the Bald . |
| 11 | The strength of the culture may be said to lie in the convergence of these orientations — that is , they are compatible with and reinforce one another , and similarly are compatible with and are reinforced by the experience of history . |
| 12 | Inasmuch as the media does reproduce such accounts it sustains the status quo , since ‘ the problem ’ is said to lie within the individual and not wider social processes , implying that a solution comes through changes in the individual rather than in society . |
| 13 | He felt the depression of the seat cushions above him as Simon Cormack was made to lie along the back seat . |
| 14 | Next day , Dot was made to lie on a high hard bed in a glittery room without windows and they pressed a black rubber bowl over her face which smelled like the inside of her gas-mask . |
| 15 | Thus the responsibility for unemployment would be seen to lie with the unemployed , who would then be seen to be personally responsible for their own unemployment , poverty , etc . |
| 16 | The justification for doing the work might be seen to lie in the material benefits it produced . |
| 17 | I shall here consider three such attempts to connect past and present : firstly , that which I shall call a ‘ kairos ’ approach , in which the past is basically normative but it is said that there can be development ; secondly , that which I shall call the ‘ golden thread ’ approach , in which a leading motif is lifted out of the past and applied in another situation ; thirdly , that which I shall call an ‘ a priori ethical ’ position , in which essentially authority is seen to lie in the present but there is not perceived to be any fundamental clash with the past . |
| 18 | The remedy for pretty much all of the above , and for much else besides , is seen to lie in the introduction of proportional representation for all national and local elections . |
| 19 | Spain 's increasing economic difficulties were seen to lie behind the dire results at Sotheby 's Peel & Asociados sale of Old Master paintings on 25 February . |
| 20 | The irrational spectre of money illusion is often seen to lie behind the complex facade of income-expenditure models derived from the system . |
| 21 | Of the twelve initiatives announced in the 1988 statement , eight can be seen to lie within the general sphere of development . |
| 22 | In the arousal condition the same beginning and ending to the sequence was used , but in the middle the boy was hit by a car and shown lying on the car bonnet bleeding heavily before being transported to hospital . |
| 23 | The sources of this species of pragmatic inference can be shown to lie outside the organization of language , in some general principles for cooperative interaction , and yet these principles have a pervasive effect upon the structure of language . |
| 24 | Germanium boosts the immune system by helping the cells mop up free radicals , which are now thought to lie at the root of many degenerative diseases and the process of ageing . |
| 25 | The only opportunity for a large increase in revenue was thought to lie in the Gatwick Express non-stop service introduced in May , featuring air-conditioned stock on the half-hour journey from Victoria to Gatwick every fifteen minutes ( and powered on a push-pull basis by Class 73 electro-diesels ) . |
| 26 | The antidote to these ills was thought to lie in the institution of a core or common component in the curriculum of all pupils . |
| 27 | For many years its significance was thought to lie in the fact that , while the combiners had to intend to do an unlawful act , it was not necessary that their purpose should be to injure the plaintiff . |
| 28 | The answer is thought to lie in the development of the domestic dog . |
| 29 | If she had told Richard about Harry , and about Maurice 's dubious cargo , he would n't have had to lie in a pool of blood waiting for her own daughter to rescue him . |
| 30 | Her back knitted , but doubled over , for after the first weeks when she was laid on the ground from fear of hurting her raw flesh , she had preferred to lie in a hammock , where she had lain curved for weeks on end . |