Example sentences of "which lay [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the autumn of 1955 , while the pages of the Spectator continued to be filled with angry reaction to Henry Fairlie 's remarks about the Establishment , its radical counterpart , the New Statesman tackled the family which lay at the Establishment 's heart . |
| 2 | Clement wrote the third book of his Miscellanies to attack the Gnostic denial of the goodness of the created order , which lay at the root of their contradictory attitudes to sex , either as a repulsive carnality or as a source of phallic ecstasy . |
| 3 | Luke and Sonny headed towards the wide square of open ground which lay at the end of the lane . |
| 4 | So perhaps Hahnemann was quite right when he suggested that inherited factors from past infections or infections suffered by ancestors caused imbalances which lay at the heart of the chronic diseases . |
| 5 | However , because the moral phenomena which lay at the roots of social solidarity could not directly be measured , Durkheim identified law as an external and visible index of changes in invisible moral phenomena . |
| 6 | It was this issue which lay at the heart of Dicey 's concern about droit administratif . |
| 7 | Modern discussion of the issue has normally centred on the role of the Woodvilles , who are identified as the cause of a split within the ruling group which lay at the root of the crisis . |
| 8 | This was the question which lay at the heart of every murder investigation ; and yet he knew its absurdity before he asked it . |
| 9 | Like the Mirza Nama , the Shah Jehan Nama worships superficial , shiny things — gifts , uniforms , jewels — and deliberately ignores the darkness and corruption which lay at the heart of the court . |
| 10 | Modern discussion of the issue has normally centred on the role of the Woodvilles , who are identified as the cause of a split within the ruling group which lay at the root of the crisis . |
| 11 | Mr Healey — the best leader Labour never had , and a man of such substance as the party no longer possesses — was regarding , from under shaggy eyebrows , the large and rollicking volume of his autobiography , just published , which lay on the table between us in his hotel suite . |
| 12 | Shallow water clastic sediments were deposited in north Devon , which lay on the northern margin of the basin . |
| 13 | Holding lands which lay on the boundaries of Plantagenet Aquitaine , the Capetian sénéschaussée of Toulouse , and the lordships of Foix-Béarn , Pardiac , Astarac and L'Isle jourdain , they were essentially marcher lords , attempting to enlarge and unite their territories . |
| 14 | Giving evidence , Capt von Humbracht said that he picked up the uniform , hat and sword belonging to Napoleon which lay on the ground . |
| 15 | Which he did , a good two feet clear of the gaping open ditch which lay on the blind side of the hedge . |
| 16 | As ruler of Aquitaine Henry felt that it was his duty to impose a settlement , but in recent years Louis VII had been showing some interest in this region , which lay on the route between Paris and Toulouse . |
| 17 | Basse-Navarre , or Lower Navarre , was originally the French end of the kingdom of Navarre , the larger part of which lay on the far side of the Pyrenees , in Spain . |
| 18 | The woman brought me a chair as I bent over her , both my hands enclosing the weak one which lay on the bedcovers . |
| 19 | She kicked a tin which lay on the pavement . |
| 20 | Aunt Emily smiled at her in a puzzled manner and picked up a letter which lay on the quilt . |
| 21 | Rupert picked up the book which lay on the little table by the fire . |
| 22 | She shivered , her right hand moving restlessly towards the gold chain with its rectangular pendant which lay on the exposed skin of her neck above the scooped-out neckline of her dress : Rune 's parting gift given to her that dull morning when , after having insisted on collecting her from her hotel , he had driven her to the airport at Kastrup . |
| 23 | Jane could not bear to give up for , although she knew nothing so harrowing as the run-up to a match or a medal , she knew nothing to compare with the excitement which lay on the other side of the 1st tee : " However tight a match , I never believed that anyone was going to beat me . |
| 24 | Lewis found himself looking at the back page of The Oxford Times which lay on the desk . |
| 25 | A big hand indicated the pair of envelopes which lay on the unpolished table top . |
| 26 | Further corroborative evidence was provided by the palaeomagnetic record of ocean sediments containing particles of iron-rich minerals which lay on the basaltic oceanic crust . |
| 27 | He picked up a napkin which lay beside the plate and wiped his hands on it . |
| 28 | ‘ Love apples , ’ she had said to Mark , and the words ‘ love apple ’ had somehow given a name to the district , strange and different as it was from the rest of the parish which lay over the other side of the main road , far from the railway line . |
| 29 | The Renaissance State consisted , at bottom , of an ever-expanding bureaucracy which , although at first a working bureaucracy , had by the end of the sixteenth century become a parasitic bureaucracy ; and this ever expanding bureaucracy was sustained on an equally expanding margin of ‘ waste ’ : ‘ waste ’ which lay between the taxes imposed on the subjects and the revenue collected by the Crown . |
| 30 | Stirling naturally stressed , as he had all along , that the SAS must remain outside any airborne brigade , otherwise they ran the risk of falling into the operational vacuum which lay between the small specialist raid and the larger tactical operation . |