Example sentences of "lie at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Orpiere , reached by turning west off the N75 Grenoble road about 25km north of Sisteron , is a little village which lies at the foot of a cirque of crags . |
2 | Carnlough , which translated from the Gaelic means ‘ Cairn of the Lake ’ , lies at the foot of Glencloy , one of the Nine Glens of Antrim , overlooking the Sea of Moyle . |
3 | The hotel lies at the foot of a steep road which leads down through the trees from the main road . |
4 | It is the underlying implication of the existence of a providing ‘ god ’ which lies at the bottom of a great deal of the world 's misery . |
5 | I can just see them : Mum with a cottage cheese salad lying uneaten on her plate — Dad in the office amid piles of unread scripts , unable to concentrate for fear that his darling ? hated ? infuriating daughter lies at the bottom of the Thames , the Severn , the Atlantic … |
6 | If you look through all the short stories you know , I think you 'll find that the element of change lies at the bottom of each , like an insistent ground bass . |
7 | This movement exposes the active site ( pink ) , consisting of a catalytic triad like that of the serine proteinases , which lies at the bottom of a hydrophobic canyon in the catalytic amino-terminal domain of the protein . |
8 | The erm help available is in many ways decreasing erm I 'm afraid we have to drag politics into it sooner or later , but central government funding , or lack of it , erm to my mind lies at the bottom of many of these problems . |
9 | The pulsar lies at the southeast end of the SNR shell and is seen as a point source with a mean continuum flux of 20.7mJy . |
10 | Here the editors venture carefully into the world of cognitive science , which lies at the intersection of AI and cognitive psychology . |
11 | We may even suggest that the theory of contracts presents an ideal terrain for an examination of these fundamental issues of political philosophy , for the law of contract lies at the intersection of the market and the state , using the coercive power of the latter to reinforce the discipline of the former . |
12 | If a matrix A has m rows and n columns , i.e. it is of order ( m × n ) , its typical element unc lies at the intersection of the ith row and jth column ( |
13 | The well known city of Luzern , possibly one of the country 's greatest tourist attractions , lies at the head of the north-west arm , and the small town of Fluelen , gateway to the Gotthard Pass route , lies 38km ( 24 miles ) away at the end of the long south-east arm which is called the Urner Lake after the name of the Uri canton in which it lies . |
14 | A simple power struggle lies at the core , one which Mr Yeltsin has three months to resolve . |
15 | The other school of thought on hypnosis emphasises the special social situation that lies at the core of hypnosis . |
16 | The plasterwork has peeled to reveal the red sandstone underneath ; and in places that sandstone has in turn crumbled away to reveal the intricate brickwork that lies at the core of the structure . |
17 | Both focused on minority rights within Yugoslavia , and I entirely agree that that issue lies at the core of the problem within the country . |
18 | The theory that lies at the core of Layard 's analysis is the ‘ real wage resistance ’ hypothesis : workers have a target real wage which they strive to achieve and defend through the wage bargaining process . |
19 | The gallery , now converted into the main building lies at the south end of the complex . |
20 | The Tellsplatte lies at the base of the Axenberg mount , part of the precipitous east face of the Urner See . |
21 | A similar distinction lies at the base of J. R. Walsh 's treatment of the muftis : doubtless writing about a period later than that under consideration in the present study , he states , in regard to what Hezarfen would call the that aside from the occasional retired kadi or " a member of one of the local learned families in the larger cities , … the were not of the class " . |
22 | The issue is whether a civil action for defamation lies at the suit of a corporate public authority . |
23 | By sheer coincidence Kappa Crucis lies at the edge of the dark nebula known as the Coal Sack . |
24 | M17 , the Omega Nebula , is of the same type ; it lies at the edge of Sagittarius , and is in the same × 7 field with Gamma Scuti . |
25 | He lies at the edge of the town , |
26 | It is this concept that lies at the back of R. P. A. Edwards ' attack on dial-access retrieval systems : |
27 | Style , the more general concept , lies at the back of more large scale studies of style , when for example we try to give a stylistic characterization of a whole text . |
28 | But it is possible to believe that the idea of ventriloquism which lies at the heart of it may be successfully applied both to some sorts of contemporary author and to some of what went before . |
29 | It is this contract , which Mr Morton inherited when he joined Eurotunnel , that lies at the heart of present difficulties . |
30 | Chauvinism , local and national , lies at the heart of hooliganism and England fans seem to find in foreigners a convenient target fur a vague resentment at Britain 's diminished place in the world . |