Example sentences of "lay with [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The bones of the wolf lay with the bones of the man .
2 His sympathies lay with the independents such as Henderson and Nixon ( who at one point in the 1930s constituted , in the absence of the nationalists , the official opposition at Stormont ) , but the Unionists had not yet shown the degree of liberalism they were to show under O'Neill in the 1960s and Paisley confined himself to promoting various ‘ ginger group ’ enterprises on the margins of politics .
3 Perhaps the problem lay with the times .
4 Initially the advantage lay with the Lords of the Congregation ; by the end of June , they had driven the regent 's troops out of Fife , had regained Perth and moved in on Edinburgh , where , on 7 July , Knox was appointed minister .
5 On his arrival , he knew instead that his destiny lay with the movies .
6 The hope , according to the programme authors , lay with the intellectuals , described as an oasis in the midst of this desert of feudalistic subservience .
7 Moreover , Don Juan 's sympathies lay with the Allies , which contributed to making his followers in Spain believe that they could look to the Western democracies in general , and to Great Britain in particular , for support .
8 It is unlikely though that many sailors were saved from the ravages of scurvy before the naval brass hats were convinced , in the 1790s , that the answer lay with the diets devised by Scottish physician James Lind .
9 The greater part dealt with the Greek colonies but his heart lay with the Scyths and their affinities , a topic which he addressed in his 1942 British Academy lecture , The Art of the Northern Nomads ( 1944 ) .
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