Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] lay [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coronation Hill lay within the remote Kakadu Conservation Zone , adjacent to the 1,900,00-hectare Kakadu National Park . |
| 2 | As noted in annual reports in the late forties and again in the early fifties , the main problems in the development of WEA provision lay in the urban areas — a reversal of pre-war conditions when accessibility of rural areas was difficult and prevented significant growth until the appointment of resident tutors . |
| 3 | The silver case lay on the arm of the chair . |
| 4 | In his velvet-lined chamber , Piers Gaveston lay under the great , silken canopy of his four-poster bed , chewing his lip and wondering what would happen next . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | CLAIMS that the future of Point of Ayr colliery lay in the hands of local management were refuted yesterday by Delyn MP David Hanson . |
| 7 | The remote origins of Emanuel School lay in the sixteenth century and a small charitable foundation for the elderly and the young . |
| 8 | The strength of the Welf party lay on the lower Rhine and in the Netherlands and especially in the support of Cologne and of its archbishop , for Cologne had strong trading ties with England . |
| 9 | The main influence of Toynbee Hall lay in the numbers of civil servants and politicians later influential in the social policy field who gained early experience as residents , including Alfred Milner , later Governor-General of South Africa , and William Beveridge who was sub-warden of Toynbee Hall from 1903 to 1907 . |
| 10 | A stretch of mown grass lay between the palings and the road , and on hot days the children left their stony playground and lay and rolled on the grass just outside . |
| 11 | One of Andrew Jean 's beehive combs lay on the dressing table in a spread of pills and lipsticks . |
| 12 | He held an untidy bundle of towel and swimming trunks in his hand and a tennis racket lay on the back seat where he had obviously just flung it . |
| 13 | Another major block of duchy land lay along the Aire , from the soke of Snaith in the east , through Pontefract to Leeds and Bradford , with the forest of Knaresborough an outrider further north . |
| 14 | Another major block of duchy land lay along the Aire , from the soke of Snaith in the east , through Pontefract to Leeds and Bradford , with the forest of Knaresborough an outrider further north . |
| 15 | A Scrabble board lay on the floor , a reminder that so far this year Buzz was beating Elinor by 147 to 17 . |
| 16 | When she reached her room Lucy lay on the bed to review the situation , the main point occupying her mind being the fact that Silas was not yet married to Doreen . |
| 17 | Although the popularity of the war economy lay at the root of the growth of socialism during the First World War , liberal internationalism was quick to reassert itself once the war was over . |
| 18 | The roots of the trade and transit dispute lay in the Nepalese decision to purchase weaponry from China in 1988 , a move which seriously offended India 's security perceptions . |
| 19 | Colonel Fergusson lay in the cold square bedroom of his cold square house three miles outside Dublin and listened to the clicking overhead . |
| 20 | Mrs Hobbs lay on the back seat . |
| 21 | We rested in a village at lunchtime where the phone lines lay across the side of the road and stretched into a field , and where the mayor welcomed us , his red face glowing underneath a huge fur hood . |
| 22 | His one break from bop conventions lay in the pacing of each set , since he favoured fast tempi almost exclusively , and we had to wait for the penultimate tune of the night to hear a ballad played at real ballad speed . |
| 23 | The one change to what he had recounted to Mrs Wilson lay in the time he had spent in London : he told Maidstone he 'd spent six months there . |
| 24 | The strength of the previous external verification arrangements lay in the expertise and the flexibility of the three teams of external verifiers . |
| 25 | I and my best friend Katy lay in the long grass below the tennis courts . |
| 26 | Angevin interests lay in the support of the Welfs as the strongest power in north Germany , who might help them to maintain the crumbling Angevin empire . |
| 27 | Mrs Popple lay on the bathroom floor , her jaw muscles having gone into spasms . |
| 28 | Mrs Popple lay on the operating table . |
| 29 | Radical changes in Defence policy lay at the root of Macmillan 's aspirations . |
| 30 | The biggest difference from the corresponding Corporation cars lay in the bogies , which were of Brush 's own design and were reversed with the driving wheels nearest the centre of the car . |