Example sentences of "lie on " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is wearing her party smile which slashes to a snarling slaver and she makes it to the kitchen where cold steal lies on Dutch tiles . |
| 2 | This lies on Craig Yr Ysfa , taking the groove between Amadeus and Agrippa and was climbed with N. Bonnet and C. Fletcher . |
| 3 | Since the accent in this study lies on 1922 , a report in The Times for 6 January may suffice as an eye-witness account of conditions in Saratov and Samara gubernii . |
| 4 | However , since the accent in this book lies on social and political affairs , the railways and the press will be considered from this angle . |
| 5 | Abisko lies on a lake and near a National park that is famous for its animal and bird life and its woods of birch and pine . |
| 6 | It lies on the easter outskirts of Brighton in East Sussex , and today is the home of three Territorial Army units , each representing a different part of the Army . |
| 7 | It lies on the eastern edge of the Ruhr coalfield and is some fifteen miles from the Möhne Dam , one of the targets of the famous ‘ Dambusters ’ raid . |
| 8 | A huge ‘ inverted funnel ’ of painted , coarsely plastered brickwork lies on top of an oak beam which acts as a fascia spanning a very broad fireplace , also lined with white-painted brickwork ( Plate 12 ) . |
| 9 | It is a collective liability which lies on British Rail . ’ |
| 10 | The ‘ Wonderful Weald ’ of Kent and Sussex is a bed of clay , which determines the character of what lies on top . |
| 11 | The upper part of the village of Whittington lies on the south-east slope of a steep hillside . |
| 12 | Stephanie comes forward and lies on the ground . |
| 13 | He lies on rocks |
| 14 | ( Halicarnassus , modern Bodrum , lies on a peninsula in south-western Turkey . ) |
| 15 | Excursions : Liechtenstein , the tiny principality which lies on the Austrian/Swiss border is not too far away and makes for a fascinating destination . |
| 16 | One of these is to Liechtenstein , the tiny principality which lies on the border of Switzerland and Austria . |
| 17 | This gastropod is unusual in that its aperture lies on its left-hand side , not on the right as in most other species . |
| 18 | The specimen is unusually complete for a fossil sea lily , and lies on a fine-grained limestone . |
| 19 | This specimen lies on a slab of mudstone , the specimen itself having been converted into coal-like material — that is , into carbon . |
| 20 | This lies on a branch of the Frome , sandwiched between Ebley and Kings Stanley . |
| 21 | AN AQUIFER often lies on top of a layer of less permeable rock . |
| 22 | The farm lies on the hills above Coniston Lake on the western side . |
| 23 | On some islands , there is a lethargic variety of sea-snake which lies on the sand in the shallow , and which can give a nasty poisonous bite when stood on . |
| 24 | Freud was right , Maud thought , vigorously rubbing her white legs , desire lies on the other side of repugnance . |
| 25 | His interior monologues convey the thoughts that pass through his mind as he lies on his deathbed and reviews his past life with a mixture of pride and guilt . |
| 26 | Each item is separately labelled and lies on perpetual display , reducing all the pomp and ceremony of Empire to a few mute and pathetic items . |
| 27 | To facilitate this examination , the woman lies on her back with her legs raised towards her chin and the knees or ankles supported . |
| 28 | But I still have a map drawn by one of his colleagues , marking all the main sea-trout and salmon lies on Stack ; worth its weight in gold , quite irreplaceable . |
| 29 | Daley Thompson apparently lies on his bed for much of two days before a decathlon thinking his way through each event , mentally rehearsing the self-discipline needed when confronted with two failures at his first high jump or pole vault . |
| 30 | So , with it at the front the board lies on the water flat , and with it back the tail digs in . |