Example sentences of "lie [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | NOTTINGHAMSHIRE lies right in the heart of the rural leafy East Midlands of England . |
| 2 | There 's a pub that 's very similar in constructions to that , that lies low beside the lock . |
| 3 | The large N-terminal domain lies free in the cytoplasm with the InsP 3 binding site located at its end , a long way away from the channel-forming C-terminal region . |
| 4 | Such puritanical zeal is associated with the Sabbath-keeping habits of that last stronghold of the pure gospel in the Western Isles , where bacon lies cold on the plates in the digs of even tax-dodging landladies on a Sabbath morn . |
| 5 | The oral shield is variable in shape from a rounded triangular to slightly pentagonal ; it lies proximal to the genital slits not spanning them . |
| 6 | Entry into the Land lies long in the past , and the task has become one of establishing a secure hold upon it . |
| 7 | The responsibility lies four-square with the Government and its chronic underfunding of councils . ’ |
| 8 | Er and then the submediant , because it lies halfway between the upper tonic the eighth note of the scale and the subdominant . |
| 9 | And then the mediant is called the mediant , the mediant because it lies halfway between the tonic and the dominant . |
| 10 | The desire for joy lies deep within the human spirit , as deep as the soul 's quest for happiness . |
| 11 | The delusion that democracy … is a progressive form of government , lies deep within the convictions of a particular political school ; but there can be no delusion grosser … |
| 12 | The Wizard Kaster Dreckspatz of Altdorf lies still in the Great Hospice of Frederheim after one attempt to breach the walls . |
| 13 | The weighted bee lies still within the calyx . |
| 14 | William Curll still lies flat on the floor of Salisbury Chapel in St Etheldreda 's , Hatfield , in his loosely fitting grave-clothes . |
| 15 | It lies flat in the road about half-way down the street , and can swiftly be raised to block the progress of an unauthorised vehicle . |
| 16 | The sea lies flat in the sunlight , |
| 17 | Not surprisingly , therefore , constitutional authorities eager for change have pondered long and hard , not so much on how to introduce a Bill of Rights or a restraining written constitution ( that , after all , could be effected by a simple Commons majority backed by the usual formality of assent by Crown and Lords ) but on how to ensure that such a new settlement sticks and lies safe beyond the repealing vote of yet another simple Commons majority . |
| 18 | When ‘ playing possum ’ it lies limply on the ground and can even be bitten hard by an attacker without showing any response . |
| 19 | Deepest guilt lies heavy on the shoulders … ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Hive ’ , meanwhile , sees the bassist trying to scratch holes into the neck of his instrument while Coughlan lies supine in the stage slop howling his tonsils out . |
| 21 | It lies engulfed amid the new colonies that have recently sprung up along the way to Mehrauli , a small enclave of mud-walled , flat-roofed village life besieged by a ring of high-rise apartments . |
| 22 | This book will not provide a definitive study of the reign of Mary Queen of Scots ; such a study lies far in the future , if it can ever be achieved at all . |
| 23 | And herein , of course , lies one of the ruder ironies of the Pacific : that among all this economic vibrancy and dynamism there are still the familiar evils we currently associate only with Africa , or with countries that are at war : illiteracy , hunger , a vertiginous growth of population , disease , overcrowding , slums . |
| 24 | In the background here lies one of the favourite themes of the Romantics : that of the coincidentia oppositorum , ‘ coincidence of opposites ’ . |
| 25 | Extant remains of Byzantine architecture are largely in the form of churches and cathedrals and herein lies one of the chief differences between it and the preceding Roman epoch , which had produced much secular work as well as temples . |
| 26 | ‘ Woman who lies naked on the rock , ’ Mandy said without hesitation . |
| 27 | ‘ Anpetuwi means woman who lies naked on the rock . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ So you are the woman who lies naked on the rock , are you ? ’ |
| 29 | Whilst that new boat you might have bought lies unnoticed amid the masses in the marina , your Swan will be the envy of others . |
| 30 | The Cordillera Blanca complex , which lies inboard of the Coastal Batholith , marks the culmination of Andean magmatism in northwest Peru ( Fig. 1 ) . |