Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] lay [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That tovarisch lay in the earth , |
| 2 | But he might at least be " useful " , as he had wanted , and part of that usefulness lay in the fact that , on one level at least , his poetry could have a public and national purpose — although , when the war had been won , he no longer cared to draw attention to those aspects of it . |
| 3 | Although armed force lay in the background of every statesman 's consciousness , it was not the normal instrument of competition between states . |
| 4 | There existed a second manor of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul 's Cathedral , close to Chesewic , and that manor lay between the river and Turnham Green and was called Sutton which it is thought probably derived its name from South Town . |
| 5 | A further difficulty lay in the fact that until recently section 4(2) orders were not subject to challenge either by way of appeal or , in the case of those issued by the Crown Court , by judicial review . |
| 6 | A further difficulty lay in the social context of the secondment . |
| 7 | He 'd reached the place where the broken branch lay across the ride . |
| 8 | Militant feminists pointed out that sexual antagonism lay at the heart of the suffrage struggle and could never be resolved within the discourse of political liberalism . |
| 9 | Beneath their discursiveness , these books exhibit a coherent social theory : the way to social progress lay in the rational wills of individuals , and true philanthropy consisted in supporting and strengthening that rational will rather than in the mechanical relief of poverty . |
| 10 | Apart from the destruction of the Channel ports , the greatest amusement of 1939 for English listeners lay in the increasingly desperate claims of the German radio to have sunk the aircraft-carrier Ark Royal , the only modern carrier in the Royal Navy at the outbreak of war . |
| 11 | For days this hush lay on the house like dust . |
| 12 | The despatch which would have told Wellington of the loss of Charleroi and the further French advance lay in the Major 's saddlebag . |
| 13 | Its designated area lay at the heart of one of the most economically depressed cities in Western Europe which had suffered a massive withdrawal of private capital during the previous three decades and endured a series of political traumas in the process ( Parkinson , 1985 , Figure 3.1 ) . |
| 14 | Social relations lay at the heart of lived experience . |
| 15 | The beauty of this strategy lay in the fact that , if the opening manoeuvre were successful , the Germans would take the French centre and right wing armies in rear , with the added bonus that these troops would then have to fight with their backs to their own line of fortifications along the German border . |
| 16 | The vicar would never have agreed to any kind of mock funeral , but he finally yielded to Midge 's plea that some intercession should be made for the souls of the unknown man and woman whose charred corpses lay in the refrigerator at the mortuary . |
| 17 | Another door lay on the other side of the room . |
| 18 | An empty glass lay on the eiderdown . |
| 19 | The reason for this unease lay in the doubtful practicability of total self-sufficiency . |
| 20 | And once this mountain lay under the |
| 21 | Perhaps a mature perception of this fact lay behind the rather surprising acquiescence of most Norman lords in William the Conqueror 's succession as duke in 1035 , though he was but a child and a bastard . |
| 22 | Nibbed pens lay in the groove . |
| 23 | But the real defence lay with the supremely powerful Royal Navy . |
| 24 | Similar thinking lay behind the setting up of the British National Film League in 1921 to ‘ encourage the production and exhibition of British-made films ’ . |
| 25 | William Quekett was living in fashionable Well Close Square in the 1840s — a few doors away from John Frederick Hasted , Benjamin Titford 's cousin — but his real work lay in the poor courts and alleyways of the parish at large , where his dedication and Christian charity had made him a legendary figure . |
| 26 | The only area which seems to have been devoid of buildings almost throughout the Roman period lay near the main centre of occupation in Birch Abbey and Evesham Street . |
| 27 | In almost every one of the analyses that he showed , the primary enabling inventions that led to such advances lay in the materials field . |
| 28 | Scores of chained skeletons lay in the aisles — rivals , no doubt , of the regime , potential competitors for power who had been left here naked over the centuries , stripped of everything , to contemplate its monumental history while they starved . |
| 29 | According to the Social Purity Alliance , founded in 1873 , male vice lay at the heart of the problem of immorality . |
| 30 | The only departure from the established procedure lay in the fact that the copy of the order seems to have been served upon or issued to M. 's solicitors by the court rather than being served by the applicant 's solicitor . |