Example sentences of "lay in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other 's beneficiary was the fidelis Rodulf whose lands also lay in the Limousin . |
| 2 | Scuttled ships lay in the bay and only two quays were fit for use . |
| 3 | After sketching the steamboat , as she lay in the bay unlading her cargo , from the bridge over the water that divides Pultneytown from the old town of Wick , I got into one of the boats leaving the pier , and was landed on board the ‘ St. Nicholas , ’ thinking it would be more pleasant to visit Thurso by sailing round the coast than to go by rail . |
| 4 | Her problem lay in the question of a personal Devil . |
| 5 | Another change , which was to have implications for the course of British town planning , lay in the shifts of economic fortune between regions . |
| 6 | The station was bright with lots of red plastic , but cartons lay in the litter bins and a discarded magazine loitered on one of the seats . |
| 7 | Mr Major seemed relieved that everything now lay in the lap of the gods . |
| 8 | The matter gave him enormous regret , no doubt an unhappy situation whose solution lay in the lap of the all-merciful Allah ; nothing would give him greater pleasure than to return to Mr Laing his passport , which he had taken into nightly safekeeping only at the specific request of Mr Pyle . |
| 9 | The failure of the GIST initiative surely lay in the naivety of its approach : the researchers were so concerned to promote a positive ‘ image ’ of science that they brushed aside pupils ' questions on the reality . |
| 10 | The island of Uros we visited lay in the middle of the sheltered Gulf of Chucuito . |
| 11 | Most pairs in Britain lay in the middle two weeks of May , with the eggs hatching 12 or 13 days later . |
| 12 | In contrast , other Romano-Celtic temples lay within larger enclosures set alongside or apart from the centre of the settlement , as for example at Harlow , where the temple and its associated precinct lay in the middle of a ditched enclosure 4.2 ha ( 10 acres ) in extent . |
| 13 | It would be of no great help to pronounce the body of an object genuine if the interest , and hence the value , lay in the inscription . |
| 14 | For many months virtually everywhere in the Soviet Union stocks in state shops of even basic foodstuffs such as bread had been growing increasingly erratic , although some of the blame for this lay in the withholding of deliveries to the state supply network by farms and local authorities , in anticipation of prices rising or to meet local needs [ for indications of breakdown in the distribution system in May see p. 37538 ] . |
| 15 | He turned , shielding what lay in the water with his own big body . |
| 16 | As she lay in the water , she heard the soft brisk heels of a female Scarabae pass along the corridor outside . |
| 17 | The key to an understanding of the farmers in the survey lay in the emphasis they gave to enjoyment of and satisfaction with their work . |
| 18 | She lay in the shelter of the gully , close to the Norwegian 's side . |
| 19 | Hugh dragged food from his sack , the food the thin man had transferred from his saddle-bags and the remains of the Friar 's provisions ; whatever else lay in the bottom of the sack he carefully left there . |
| 20 | They lay in the bottom of the bag , too discouraged even to talk . |
| 21 | James starts her novel of detection , Unnatural Causes , " The corpse without hands lay in the bottom of a small sailing dinghy drifting just within sight of the Suffolk coast . " |
| 22 | James ' first words , " The corpse without hands lay in the bottom of a small sailing dinghy . " |
| 23 | The importance of citizenship lay in the individual ‘ giving ’ to his city , rather than taking from it . |
| 24 | The perfect world they sought lay in the individual and not in any dream of an idyllic country life . |
| 25 | The 1984 reordering of the church provided the opportunity to examine the contents , and amongst the eight coffins was that of Charles Lethieullier , brother of the celebrated antiquarian , Smart Lethieullier , whose coffin also lay in the vault , though it had lost its outer wooden case and the inner lead shell had split along the joint where left flank and lid met . |
| 26 | By 1947 it was obvious to John Swire that the future of transport in the East , as elsewhere , lay in the sky . |
| 27 | Tramens lay in the streets , in offices , in their homes , gasping , choking , clutching their throats , fighting for air . |
| 28 | Its success lay in the clarity and succinctness of exposition of the subject-matter . |
| 29 | Even in the sciences it was thought in later antiquity that all wisdom lay in the past . |
| 30 | The way to greater profitability , then , lay in the direction of bringing in better sorts of people and , to ensure that , a careful eye had to be kept on what was actually shown in the cinemas . |