Example sentences of "must lie [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Karplus believes some of the blame must lie with the mathematicians for failing to interpret what they are doing .
2 The blame must lie with the fertiliser manufacturers , who undoubtedly have done their best to encourage increased consumption by heavy advertising to farmers , and who in many cases also own farms themselves and supply seed of varieties specially bred to respond to high levels of nitrogen .
3 Parts of the rudder which sank away from the main hull corroded as could be expected , so the answer must lie with the hull itself .
4 There are , first of all , historians who believe that the crucial variable must lie with the psychological characteristics of a comparatively small group of entrepreneurs , who instituted changes in the technology and organisation of industry : British entrepreneurs are held to have displayed a peculiar wit and resource in expanding and transforming production and distribution — a wit which is not itself subjected to scrutiny .
5 He added : ‘ That must lie with the parents . ’
6 The conclusion was that the ‘ site ’ of habituation must lie between the sensory input and the motor neuron .
7 Since J is measured along the horizontal axis and W along the vertical axis , the only points on the graph at which J = W must lie along the 45° line from the origin ( assuming , of course , that both axes are in the same scale ) .
8 If there is an answer , then it must lie outside the stories , and in particular in the material that occurs between Exodus 17 and Numbers 11 .
9 The very size of the problem effectively excludes imported solutions , so the only hope must lie within the borders of the countries that suffer the most .
10 It would appear that the explanation for the strong link between sex and crime must lie in the wider stratification system in society .
11 The resolution of problem behaviour must lie in the successful unlearning of such behaviours .
12 For if one supposes that all good things become valueless if you remove the pleasure , one may infer that all the value must lie in the pleasure .
13 Since in both cases the end , getting a true belief , is the same , the difference must lie in the means ; but what the difference is , and why it matters , remains to be seen .
14 His plan to escape was so long in the making and the lesson for us must lie in the reason why , when the time came , he could not make it work .
15 The committee 's general conclusion was that the response to these issues must lie in the education of all children , not just of ethnic minority children .
16 Surely the reason must lie in the ridiculous sexual vanity of the man : he had left him out to pay him back , posthumously , for stealing his wife .
17 It can not be stressed too strongly that a great deal of the blame for unsatisfactory deeds must lie in the failure of the Scottish legal profession to provide itself with a service for new styles .
18 In so far as progress towards meritocracy was slow involving a gentle democratisation , as Holmes had argued — this was correct , but another factor must lie in the unmeritocratic aspirations of the local authorities , who administered the educational change .
19 Something , however , must lie behind the feeling in the literary sources that politicians like Kleon were different , and perhaps the difference should be sought in the new and larger audiences assembled on the Pnyx as a result of the evacuation of Attica in 431 .
20 However powerful the rocket power available may be , the probe 's velocity vector must lie inside the light cone , and this seals its fate .
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