Example sentences of "[vb -s] in a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The site lies in a narrow valley on a severe slope and the courtyards and ranges of buildings have been carefully terraced to provide level areas . |
| 2 | When speeding along it is folded and lies in a deep groove along the back . |
| 3 | Either way , the best hope of predicting such events , and mitigating their impact , lies in a better understanding of the southern oscillation and its role in the circulation of the southern hemisphere . |
| 4 | The answer , of course , lies in a general prejudice against carnivores , compounded by a righteous antagonism — not always unjustified — towards introduced species . |
| 5 | Catherine lies in a rusty bed on top of a filthy mattress . |
| 6 | Pen-y-Dyffryn Hall ( the name is Welsh for ‘ The Head of the Valley ’ ) , lies in a remote hamlet in a fairy-tale landscape of verdant valleys , gently rolling hills , and pastures dotted with white sheep . |
| 7 | Peć is still the spiritual centre of the Serbian Orthodox Church , but it lies in a remote corner of Yugoslavia , close to the Albanian border , in the Albanian-speaking province of Kosovo . |
| 8 | Thus the chief safeguard against brittle failure lies in a high work of fracture . |
| 9 | Singleton believes the answer lies in a different style of policing . |
| 10 | It lies in a direct line with Theta ( 3.7 ) and Epsilon , and there is a sixth-magnitude star close beside it . |
| 11 | To make this claim plausible — a claim which , it seems to me , lies in a grey zone between the conceptual and the empirical — I wish first to offer what seems to me the most likely account of the evolution of syntactic structure . |
| 12 | Sometimes a contractual term lies in a grey area between the two . |
| 13 | The answer to this impasse lies in a third way of knowing , one which is based on presuppositions . |
| 14 | As described above , this phosphate group lies in an anomalous position as a result of the base-stacking properties of the CTAG sequence , and the interaction can therefore be regarded as sequence-dependent . |
| 15 | She lies in an open corner of the churchyard , where she can breathe the air from the moors . |
| 16 | Those on the western side of the continent travel down to California , while the eastern population of roughly 100 million butterflies overwinters in a small area of central Mexico . |
| 17 | Prescribing costs varied across the age bands in a different manner to items ( table II ) . |
| 18 | The jar stands in a small tank of water , along with Brine Shrimp hatching bottles . |
| 19 | The refurnished signal box stands in a small area of land complete with a section of track , a turnout and signals . |
| 20 | The second possibility McTaggart considers is that two mental states ‘ belong to the same self when , and only when , the same living body ( or what appears as such ) stands in a certain relation of causality to both of them ’ . |
| 21 | If there exists a word which stands in a paronymic relation to one occurrence of a word form , but does not stand in the same relation to a second , syntactically identical occurrence of the same word form in a different context , then that word form is ambiguous , and the two occurrences exemplify different senses . |
| 22 | It was part of the city walls but now , like the arch at Orange , stands in a protected island from the surrounding traffic . |
| 23 | The Carnaud Metal Box plant in Wennington Road on the edge of the town was built only six years ago and stands in a landscaped site of some four acres . |
| 24 | The Val d'Azun will take you down at its eastern end to the town of Argelés-Gazost , which stands in a wide basin of the Gave de Pau , some eight miles south of Lourdes . |
| 25 | At Las Cuevas , on the frontier with Argentina , the cavernous station stands in a vaulted tunnel for protection . |
| 26 | Nowhere do Chaucer or any of his characters mock solemn moral prose , but within the Canterbury Tales such prose always stands in a thought-provoking contrast with verse of a lighter tone . |
| 27 | The cathedral , which stands in a commanding position on a hill overlooking the wide valley below , was begun in the early twelfth century . |
| 28 | It stands in a charming enclave of similar houses in the heart of increasingly fashionable Deptford which has mercifully escaped the ravages of Sixties property developers and Seventies road schemes . |
| 29 | This attractive Georgian house stands in an elevated position above a cobbled market place . |
| 30 | As Duncan illustrates in a brief discussion of the development of temperature scales , it is not merely that in science measurement becomes more precise and reliable in the move to a new type of scale , say a shift from the nominal categories " hot " and " cold " to degrees of heat to the Fahrenheit , Celsius and , lastly , the Kelvin scale , but that the theoretical basis also shifts . |