Example sentences of "[adj] lies [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is this contract , which Mr Morton inherited when he joined Eurotunnel , that lies at the heart of present difficulties . |
| 2 | The primary responsibility for that lies with the Glasgow Development Agency . |
| 3 | The answer to that lies on the south coast of England , in Poole , Dorset to be precise . |
| 4 | ‘ There is a land , ’ he whispered , so quiet that most of what he said was at first drowned by her rushings , ‘ that lies to the South , beyond a great blue sea . |
| 5 | The excitement concerns a bone in the floor of the skull , that lies between the eyes of amphisbaenians , called the orbitosphenoid bone . |
| 6 | And that that lies in the problem , because it 's so rare now doctors have a great difficulty in diagnosing it . |
| 7 | Currently , to the east of Lough Neagh , near Crumlin , some 420 million tonnes of recoverable lignite has been reported to exist , but two thirds of this lies under the lough itself . |
| 8 | This lies at the heart of the citizen 's charter and the Government 's programme for public services in the 1990s . |
| 9 | This lies on a branch of the Frome , sandwiched between Ebley and Kings Stanley . |
| 10 | Much of the blame for this lies with the Americans who shied away from disarming Somalia 's bandits and instead took guns from soft targets : small businessmen and relief-agency bodyguards . |
| 11 | The reason for this lies with the majority of match anglers being brainwashed into using gossamer-fine line and tiny hooks , no matter what the species or situation demands . |
| 12 | Perhaps the blame for this lies with the politicians . |
| 13 | The reason for this lies in a theory called secondary reinforcement which says that the praise will become associated with the more powerful extra reward and take on some of the strong reinforcing properties of that reward . |
| 14 | The reason for this lies in the response of a polymer to an alternating stress . |
| 15 | The reason for this lies in the limitations to which I have already referred . |
| 16 | This lies in the consideration that , in the beginning , they were externalized as the social conflict between the sons and the primal father . |
| 17 | One crucial reason for this lies in the way only one element of Marxist work on the state is used by pluralist critics . |
| 18 | The reason for this lies in the fact that the physics depends neither on the states alone nor on the observables alone but upon their interrelation . |
| 19 | Respublica derives its authority from the continuous acknowledgement of citizens and this lies in the recognition of their general obligation to obey law rather than in their response to specific precepts . |
| 20 | Perhaps the key to this lies in the realm of culture itself . |
| 21 | It may be , then , that the best hope for a modernising , thinking and participatory Labour Party for the later 1990s lies in the election as deputy leader of the man the apparatchiks would like least in that position — John Prescott . |
| 22 | Then Hence if the reference element dS lies along the 1-axis it follows that — = – 1 and Equation ( 2.5 ) gives the value of — for any other direction ( only one direction cosine l 1 is required since there is axial symmetry in this case ) . |