Example sentences of "lay [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chancellor 's headquarters were then Queen Anne 's Throne Room in what is now the Cabinet Office , and the nearest route to it from 11 Downing Street lay through the connecting doors of number 10 . |
| 2 | The dispute now lay between the new class of foristas and their sub-tenants who cultivated the land . |
| 3 | Paddan-aram , or Aram-naharaim , " land of the two rivers " ( 2 ) : Rebekah 's homeland , Paddan-aram , lay between the upper Euphrates and Habur rivers . |
| 4 | Moments later he had led her up a short stairway , through the heavily bolted door at the top , and out of the building , and Isabel had recognised the alley leading to the wash-houses and pressing-rooms , which lay between the towering keep and the curtain wall . |
| 5 | The site chosen belonged to the Radcliffe Trustees and lay between the future extension of Church Street and Aylesbury Street . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In that zone of the city which lay between the French quarter and the Kasbah , Edouard caught glimpses of the Arabic world . |
| 8 | That door opened into one of the staff car-parks that lay between the medical-school library and our Home . |
| 9 | They looked for intermediate forms to bridge the gaps that Cuvier insisted lay between the known classes and types . |
| 10 | Japan 's newly modernized armed forces achieved a resounding victory , and the terms of the peace treaty exacted from the Chinese not only a massive indemnity , but also the cession to Japan of Formosa ( Taiwan ) , the Pescadores Islands and the Liaodong peninsula , which lay off the Manchurian coast west of Korea . |
| 11 | All this makes it hard to see why Mycenaean Corinth was of no consequence ; the answer is probably just that , unlike Attica and the Argolid , it lay off the main routes of Mycenaean penetration . |
| 12 | In Hampstead : Building a Borough , 1650–1964 ( 1974 ) Professor F. M. L. Thompson has shown how the old settlement preserved its isolated character well into the nineteenth century because it lay off the main lines of communication out of the capital . |
| 13 | The tracks for suburban trains lay below those of the express system , while the suburban concourse and waiting-room in turn lay below the vast apartments in the ‘ thermal ’ style for long-distance passengers . |
| 14 | The only area which seems to have been devoid of buildings almost throughout the Roman period lay near the main centre of occupation in Birch Abbey and Evesham Street . |
| 15 | The same went for the glass underfoot ; another half-metre of water lay underneath the transparent slabs which made up the floor , gurgling under the scratched surface and around the slaty pedestals supporting the columns above . |
| 16 | On the boulder that lay against the rough stone stump of the Cross two men were standing , waving torn papers and conducting the crowd in a chorus of jeers . |
| 17 | David looked down at her as she lay against the white pillows , pale and thinner than ever , and thought how much easier it would be to keep himself in check if her husband treated her with the gentleness she deserved . |
| 18 | Julia lay against the hard , red velvet back of the bench , staring up at the painted walls around her . |
| 19 | Behind him , Paxton 's body lay amongst the frozen dancers and entertainers smiling down blankly as if welcoming him . |
| 20 | There is little or no hint of the compassion and humanity which lay beneath the cool exterior . |
| 21 | She closed her eyes , taking an unsteady breath as she tried desperately not to recall the deeply tanned torso , the slim hips and the taut , firmly muscled thighs which lay beneath the dark Savile Row suit he was wearing with such ease and assurance . |
| 22 | Klift lay beneath the fallen slab , broken in body and mind . |
| 23 | It was early evening and on the far side of the water , dense shadow lay beneath the thick cluster of trees . |
| 24 | He lay like the already-dead |
| 25 | He was , however , prone to gaffes , and doubts were repeatedly raised about how much substance lay behind the impressive campaign style . |
| 26 | The wooded slopes of the mountains inland from Dalmatia supported forests of oak and pine , in contrast to the barren interior , which lay behind the southern ( African ) shore of the Mediterranean , where the Arab empire was established in the seventh and eighth centuries . |
| 27 | When it comes to the more basic aspects of organizational culture — the beliefs and values concerning leadership and organization — that lay behind the concrete organizational phenomena , a model relating culture to idea-management has evolved in our research efforts . |
| 28 | We owe much to the Annales Cambriæ , for example , and would gladly know more of whatever lay behind the Norman chronicler William of Jumièges ' statement that shortly before his conquest of England Swegen visited Rouen and agreed with Duke Richard II that booty taken by the Danes was to be sold through the Normans , who would provide a refuge where wounded men could recuperate . |
| 29 | What gave rise to the protest of the intelligentsia , and what lay behind the revolutionary protest of its extreme wing , was the lack of opportunity afforded them by tsarist society . |
| 30 | This was the thinking which lay behind the Bonnefous Plan , named after Edward Bonnefous , who was the main architect in the Council of Europe for a European Transport Authority linked to the Council . |