Example sentences of "lies [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here lies the sharpest contrast with our other informants , who treated ‘ work-in-school ’ as irrelevant to the gaining of an adult reputation . |
| 2 | The set is in the shape of a giant book , whose pages open to reveal the Royal Palace , a dungeon , the cellar of a former teacher , Mr Nibbs , and the river , beyond which lies the democratic Singing Land — a country where people are able to choose their own leaders . |
| 3 | Here lies the greatest pleasure of greenhouse gardening , since there is little to equal the satisfaction of raising most of your own plants from seeds and cuttings , watching them grow and develop until they fulfil their potential planted out in the garden . |
| 4 | There lies the genuine stake today , in this underhand , inescapable confrontation between the silent majority and the social imposed on them , in this hypersimulation reduplicating simulation and exterminating it according to its own logic — not in any class struggle nor in the molecular hodge-podge of desire-breaching minorities . |
| 5 | Herein , I think , lies the real difficulty about wooden aeroplanes . |
| 6 | ‘ This is the beginning of real interdenominational activity , the foundation of a process wherein lies the real path to peace . ’ |
| 7 | And therein lies the deepest fascination about records and milestones . |
| 8 | In the emergence of this ‘ young generation ’ of independent means lies the early identification of the sector of the population which was to be so effectively targeted by the market in the postwar era . |
| 9 | Directly between Beta and Gamma lies the famous Ring Nebula ( M57 ) , one of the brightest of the planetaries . |
| 10 | After about a mile we quit the lane for pastureland below Robin Proctor 's Scar , beyond which lies the famous Norber Erratics field — a geologist 's paradise . |
| 11 | And therein lies the key criticism of Mr Lamont 's move towards an energy efficient Britain . |
| 12 | Behind the specific accounts of meaning we offer in this book lies the general theory of Ferdinand de Saussure ( 1974 ) . |
| 13 | The super-Alfvénic solar wind ( SW ) forms a bow shock ( BS ) , behind which lies the shocked plasma of the magnetosheath ( MS ) . |
| 14 | At the Foundation of the Government 's policy lies the primary objective of competition . |
| 15 | Above this lies the usual hierarchy found in all police bureaucracies . |
| 16 | Over in the next valley to the west lies the great park and lost house of Frampton Court , the home of the beneficent Browne family who were responsible for the building of Forston Manor . |
| 17 | North east of Ellyrion , across the river Arduil , lies the great forest of Avelorn , most ancient of all the Elf realms . |
| 18 | Beyond the hills in the background lies the Soviet Union . |
| 19 | At one extreme lies the Soviet Union which has over 100 national air quality standards and few emission standards . |
| 20 | A few minutes from the West End , down Queensferry Street , lies the picturesque VILLAGE OF DEAN , a surprising sight in the middle of a city , huddled in the deep valley beneath the DEAN BRIDGE , one of Telford 's finest works . |
| 21 | Whilst only an hour 's journey away lies the stately city of Aberdeen with its excellent restaurants , theatres and stores altogether a refreshing diversion when you want a brief reminder of city life … before returning to the secluded haven of your own lodge . |
| 22 | He wrote , too , his own epitaph : ‘ Here , where he was baptised , lies the Florentine writer Roberto Ridolfi , born 12 September 1899 who died … with as his only hope the Lord 's mercy . ’ |
| 23 | Eight miles from the Bauble lies the historic town of Colchester , an ancient town dating back to the 1st century BC with Roman remains , a ruined Norman castle , a 15th-century abbey , museums and excellent shopping facilities . |
| 24 | Of course , it is true that outside the small clearing of what we know lies the unexplored forest of what we do not know . |
| 25 | South of Florence lies the enchanting region of Chianti . |
| 26 | Along the northern bank of the firth lies the fertile Carse of Gowrie , the word carse meaning much the same as haugh — a stretch of alluvial levels beside a river . |
| 27 | Behind the retina lies the anterior chamber , filled with the aqueous humour . |
| 28 | Herein lies the crucial difference between open shop and closed shop monopoly union models . |
| 29 | In a liberal democracy this needs to be scrutinized constantly , and herein lies the first problem for the researcher . |
| 30 | He did visit the King 's College and Boswell name-dropped regarding the chapel , wherein lies the fifteenth-century Bishop Elphinstone , ‘ of whom I shall have occasion to write , ’ declared Bozzy , ‘ in my history of James IV of Scotland , the patron of my family ’ : Auchinleck was granted to the Boswells in return for favours rendered . |