Example sentences of "[verb] in the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The main obstacle lies in the existing neo-liberal economic model which favours the powerful and encourages monopolies to rule in communications and other fields . |
| 32 | We feel that the main contribution of this volume to existing debate lies in the actual ethnographic presentations of peaceful societies , with the overall interpretation being explications on indigenous conceptions of human nature and categories of emotions . |
| 33 | Again , the answer lies in the firm sharp warning but take notice of the difference in the warning given before guidance starts and those warnings given before the other methods are used . |
| 34 | A further possible explanation , however , lies in the well recognised production of large amounts of mucoprotein by villous tumours of the rectum . |
| 35 | Their resistance lies in the tiny glandular hairs which cover the foliage of the wild potato , but not that of cultivated species . |
| 36 | The only flexibility lies in the remaining forty per cent , which is devoted to research , development , and procurement of equipment . |
| 37 | The evidence lies in the changing occupational structure , in particular the shift away from manufacturing to service industry . |
| 38 | And the explanation , according to his interpretation of his experience of his world lies in the extra human agencies that surround him . |
| 39 | The real interest of the Rousset manuscript lies in the ten unknown pieces unknown , at least , to me . |
| 40 | The answer to these questions lies in the intense international rivalry to be first with fusion , a rivalry that persists to this day . |
| 41 | The background to much of this discussion lies in the seventeenth-century English political philosopher , Thomas Hobbes ( 1588–1679 ) . |
| 42 | The pathos lies in the characteristic early English understatement — ‘ so seldom ’ means ‘ never ’ or worse still ‘ just this once ’ — and also in the last phrase 's suspense between precision and vagueness . |
| 43 | Improved and expanded since opening in the early 70's the marina has matured into a real alternative to the South Coast . |
| 44 | Ozone holes have been opening in the Antarctic each September for the past 15 years . |
| 45 | That is , there was work going on everywhere , but the noise of it was dispersed in the mild cloudy air , no longer staring blue , with the brassy sun striking down on dry earth . |
| 46 | Perhaps one person in that list , however , stands out , as representing in the early 1970s almost all that Mrs Whitehouse was fighting against . |
| 47 | He began doing them in the earliest days of his career down on Coenties Slip in the late Fifties ( where the drawing classes held in Fred Mitchell 's loft became legendary ) and has kept steadily at them ever since . |
| 48 | Between April 1988 and March 1989 average rents in housing association properties rose by 24 per cent with most of the increases occurring in the first four months of 1989 . |
| 49 | Even the most cursory of examinations of the minutes of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party indicates the feverish activity which was occurring in the immediate post-war years and , in these early days , it was to be expected that mistakes would be made and that new directions would be sought . |
| 50 | This idea of a connection between the capitalist economy and a democratic political system appeared in various forms in accounts of the transition that was seen as occurring in the nineteenth-century European societies ( for example , as a movement from status to contract , or from authority to citizenship ) , and it has continued to have an important influence in political theory to the present day . |
| 51 | The question for us now is whether these new forms of growth are occurring in the same geographical labour market areas as those of factory and public sector job losses . |
| 52 | A big quake east of the Rocky Mountains — and one greater than magnitude 6 has a 50 to 60 per cent chance of occurring in the next 25 years — could make California 's Loma Prieta seem trifling . |
| 53 | because it 's come out a lot in this discussion that is there 's a big gap between the biological , biological and medical knowledge that 's accrued in the last ten or fifteen years , and the actual social consequences of these developments and there has n't been enough discussion and consideration of what will happen . |
| 54 | Fuel-oil traces and power station fly-ash appear in the late twentieth century . |
| 55 | All appear in the first eight lines : |
| 56 | When they first appear in the early Ordovician the majority of nautiloid shells are straight or slightly curved ; they are ‘ unwound ’ forms . |
| 57 | Details of courses for returners organised by nursing agencies or commercial conference organisations appear in the national weekly nursing press from time to time and in local newspapers . |
| 58 | Nothing really matters in the same old |
| 59 | But , my Lord Mayor , Labour were not to know in the early eighties how popular the Tenants Right to Buy would be . |
| 60 | RAIL fares are scheduled to soar in the next few years and at least 5,000 railway jobs will be lost following the Government 's decision to slash grants for British Rail in the early 1990s . |