Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] lay [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | a layer of mango lay above the guava . ) |
| 2 | But the largest readily accessible reservoir of support lay in the French empire , which the Germans did not occupy and where Vichy 's authority was uncertain . |
| 3 | Evidence of change lay in the increasing local diversity of management arrangements as authorities and managers used their new found autonomy to shape structures and roles to suit themselves . |
| 4 | To either side great chunks of masonry lay in the tall grasses , pieces of fallen statuary among them . |
| 5 | He put these with his haul from the kitchen and crossed the room to where a pile of mail lay on the mat inside the front door , pausing on the way to look at some of the framed photographs and certificates that were arranged along the mantelshelf . |
| 6 | Silver plumes of snow lay across the peaks . |
| 7 | By the end of March about 40 tons of ore lay on the bank , having been carted down from Paddy End , and was ready for dressing . |
| 8 | If it were to be held that judicial review for error of law lay against the visitor I fear that , as in the present case , finality would be lost not only in cases raising pure questions of law but also in cases where it would be urged in accordance with the Wednesbury principle ( Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd. v. Wednesbury Corporation [ 1948 ] 1 K.B . |
| 9 | A light , high tang of fuel lay on the air . |
| 10 | For Angell the key evidence of the irrationality of war lay in the very delicacy of the newly evolved mechanisms of international finance . |
| 11 | The importance of citizenship lay in the individual ‘ giving ’ to his city , rather than taking from it . |
| 12 | It was still quite early , and banks of mist lay between the mountain peaks , touched by a haze of pink as the sun caught them . |
| 13 | ( p. 43 ) .2 They do not distinguish sharply between animate and inanimate : thus " the bush went away " and " a puddle of water lay across the trail " ( p. 11 ) will be interpreted differently by the people and the reader : they attribute volition to such entities , we do not . |
| 14 | The same went for the glass underfoot ; another half-metre of water lay underneath the transparent slabs which made up the floor , gurgling under the scratched surface and around the slaty pedestals supporting the columns above . |
| 15 | Chip papers strewed the pavement and a buckled can of Sprite lay by the back wheel of the doctor 's Sierra . |
| 16 | Plenty of timber lay about the building . |
| 17 | A roll of corduroy lay at the end of the counter . |
| 18 | A new pattern of shadow lay across the table . |
| 19 | Piles of rubble lay against the side of the house . |
| 20 | A thin , grey covering of dust lay on the dark wood . |
| 21 | The third possibility of corruption lay in the acceptance of gifts by government servants other than judges . |
| 22 | As always in such an undertaking , the art of organization lay in the avoidance of offending those who were not asked at a particular moment and in the ability to remember enmities and jealousies which could cause friction and poison the atmosphere if the wrong people found themselves together . |
| 23 | The reason for the decision was that the burden of proof lay on the defendants to prove that they had not been negligent and they had failed to discharge this burden . |
| 24 | The only real element of surprise lay in the fact that little had been seen or heard of the extremists since the Republicans ' dramatic rise on the West German political scene in 1989 . |
| 25 | The roots of disillusion lay in the widening gap between medicine 's claims and its achievements . |
| 26 | Although the Poles participated in the Reichstag , in the Prussian Diet and in the North German Union Parliament , their main areas of activity lay in the co-operatives , culture clubs , in popular education societies , reading rooms , choirs , orchestras and libraries that grew up in the 1880s ; in Catholic social organisations , in the physical culture movement and in the popular Polish-language daily newspapers like the Grudziądz Codzienny . |
| 27 | My Lords , there is no doubt that the traditional distinction between a tenancy and a licence of land lay in the grant of land for a term at a rent with exclusive possession . |
| 28 | This time the front door was open and a swathe of sunlight lay across the red-tiled floor . |
| 29 | A broken-off piece of castle lay in the grass nearby . |
| 30 | The ball of spittle lay on the floor like a shed moonstone . |