Example sentences of "[noun sg] lie at [art] " in BNC.

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1 Questions concerned with access to the curriculum lie at the heart of any whole-school policy .
2 The issues of freedom of conscience and freedom from Roman hegemony lie at the centre of Northern Ireland fundamentalism and are meshed in with its evangelical tenets .
3 Somehow or other that piece of parchment and the seed cake lie at the very heart of the murder and they must know something about both .
4 Crates of beer and wine lie at the side of the road , covered with a tarpaulin , a brazier burns and an alsatian dog keeps guard outside a broken down caravan .
5 These inward struggles for wholeness as a person lie at the heart of what it means to be a Christian .
6 The fact that Estonia and the Ukraine have proposed the issue of their own currencies illustrates how the control of tax and expenditure lie at the heart of independent government .
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