Example sentences of "[vb -s] in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some have their root causes in subjective factors , others in objective factors and others still are a mixture . |
| 2 | Until then the diet of the wealthy was rich in spices and sugar and involved mixing fruit , both fresh and dried , with meat — a tradition which still lingers in such things as Christmas mincemeat . |
| 3 | Indeed it may have increased as a result of the general tendency to centralize health , educational and welfare services and even shops in key villages or other local centres . |
| 4 | There are also no clear data about CD4 counts in African blacks . |
| 5 | In an attempt to assess the possibility of using citation counts as a measure of research quality , Lindsey has summarised the significance of citation counts in scientometric studies : |
| 6 | He frequently accompanies in public concerts . |
| 7 | The hotel lies in five acres of fields and garden , and the Slingos , who own it , make the most of their beautiful surroundings by running painting courses for about £200 a week ( including breakfast and dinner ) , or £90 for a long weekend . |
| 8 | Part of the explanation lies in restrictive rules of standing , which appear to deprive minority shareholders of the right to bring an action in respect of negligence . |
| 9 | Mars , which lies in 3,100 feet of water , is just one project in a highly prospective area that could become one of our major profit centres in the future . |
| 10 | Most land likely to be in dispute lies in remote areas of Western Australia , the Northern Territory and Queensland . |
| 11 | Descriptions of the battles themselves are necessarily brief ; again , the main weakness here lies in simple errors of detail , examples being the addition of a ninth infantry regiment of the New Model Army 's order of Battle at Naseby ( there were only eight ) , and the reversal of totals of cavalry and infantry in Lord Byron 's Royalist Army at the Battle of Nantwich . |
| 12 | The main explanation lies in shifting relationships within and around Louis 's family . |
| 13 | The charge of political bias laid at the door of critics , and the claim that their own scientific activities were neutral , leaves only one way out — to make out that the problem lies in technical factors of production that constrain maximum yield performance in maize , and not in the interrelationship between social conditions of inequality and the new technologies which CIMMYT and IRRI were developing . |
| 14 | Even if the essence of originality lies in certain modes of psychotic thought , the ability to harness this in effective creative work — and by the same token the capacity to resist the psychopathology which it implies — must depend on other factors being present . |
| 15 | The attraction of S-R psychology , in its most radical form , lies in two things . |
| 16 | For him , the essential meaning of the key ethical terms lies in two features , universalisability and prescriptiveness . |
| 17 | Troll is a technological challenge since it lies in 340 metres which is 150 metres more than the deepest producing well in the North Sea , on the BP Magnus Field . |
| 18 | My family has set some poor standards but I hope that the breakdown of three of my children 's marriages will be seen as what it is , an honest admission of failure and a hope that a happier future lies in separate lives . |
| 19 | Its greatest strength lies in revealing fabrics and ‘ mapping ’ compositional variation , rather than in providing direct geochemical information , wherein the greatest uncertainties exist . |
| 20 | We are developing the VK 989 field ( BP : xx% ) which lies in 1,300 feet of water . |
| 21 | The art of the gold box is traditionally held to be epitomised in the Paris tabatières , but the strength of this collection also lies in those boxes which were produced in peripheral workshops , especially in Germany and Russia . |
| 22 | An exception lies in those children in whom obsessive , aggressive or bizarre sexual activity shows evidence at least of a conscious knowledge of the import of the activity itself . |
| 23 | And the explanation for all of this lies in those stones . |
| 24 | The reason lies in historical differences between England and Continental countries , dating from the feudal era , and in particular the Norman Conquest … |
| 25 | Some sort of consensus exists or we should not be a society at all , and whether consensus lies in common ideals or in recognition of common interest our conjoint existence with others would be impossible without it . |
| 26 | If we want to know where the truth lies in particular cases , we have to look . |
| 27 | Pluralism as a description of where power lies in American cities can best be understood in the context of the studies which it set out to criticise elite theories of community power . |
| 28 | On the best stretch of beautiful Waikiki Beach , this hotel lies in 22 acres of well tended gardens with gushing waterfalls and swaying palms forming a backdrop to the pool . |
| 29 | I suppose the way to stop it sounding like a complete mess lies in three things : the way you play it , the exact part you play , and the sound itself . |
| 30 | ‘ The way to Caer Wydyr lies in these passages inside the rock . |