Example sentences of "[vb pp] lie at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Mind you 're not found lying at the bottom of the steps with a broken neck like Amy Robsart . |
| 6 | Jim Eggleton , who was seventy , was found lying at the foot of the stairs of his council home in Russells Water , near Nettlebed … |
| 7 | There remained talk that the new king would pay for the destruction of the threshing machines which the agricultural workers believed lay at the root of their misery , and there were stories that the new police — the ‘ peelers ’ — had been armed with 6000 cutlasses from the Tower . |
| 8 | The north gate is presumed to lie at the point where modern Northgate Street cuts the line of the wall ; a Roman street underlying the modern one here would seem to confirm the correctness of this assumption . |
| 9 | ‘ The joy was therefore extreme ’ wrote Scott later , ‘ when , the ponderous lid of the chest being forced open , the regalia were discovered lying at the bottom covered with linen cloths , exactly as they had been left . ’ |