Example sentences of "lie [prep] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interest lies with its small brother , Strokkur . |
| 2 | The death-feigning snake often lies with its jaws gaping open and its tongue hanging out . |
| 3 | Shares have slipped back from a high of 440p and a lot of the blame lies with its US offshoot Keebler . |
| 4 | CAMRA 's strength lies in its style of organisation . |
| 5 | Maybe part of the daisy 's popularity lies in its shape , a yellow disk fringed with white petals ( correctly ray-florets ) , a simple arrangement which reminds us of the sun . |
| 6 | One indicator of the SLD 's campaigning strength lies in its performance compared with that of the Greens . |
| 7 | Its charm lies in its basic simplicity , a hemispherical structure of birch trunks , wind-proofed around the outside with turf bricks . |
| 8 | Of course , the whole thrust of the historic avant-garde , and particularly its celebration here , lies in its being associated with a liberation from bourgeois ideology ; but this is not quite the same as having your revolutionary commitments tested by your aesthetic judgement . |
| 9 | Part of its sorcery lies in its ability to instil the same exhilaration from a short run up the road on a Sunday morning , but most of it comes from that aggressive thrust of power that is always more than enough for any driving situation . ’ |
| 10 | Its significance lies in its double message : that the aim of the Palestinian struggle is the establishment of Palestinian independence , and that this independence is regarded as being not at Israel 's expense . |
| 11 | Mr Pavey says the secret of his project 's success lies in its unobtrusive design . |
| 12 | The importance of the Cosmeston project lies in its scale . |
| 13 | I argued that drama is not in itself direct , that indeed its power lies in its seeming directness . |
| 14 | The great advantage of a steam engine lies in its ability to exert its full power at low revolutions , and it does not require a clutch . |
| 15 | Firstly , modernist fiction 's most obvious and celebrated innovation lies in its focalization of the novel in the minds or private narratives of its characters . |
| 16 | Perhaps the value of this single word lies in its being repeated by another whistling beak , in its not being forgotten during the interval of silence . |
| 17 | Again and again , we have found the key to the successful re-use of a building lies in its setting . |
| 18 | The main importance of the virus , however , lies in its capacity to infect the foetus in utero . |
| 19 | It is a church whose authority lies in its age and its preservation of a form of worship which can be traced back through two millennia . |
| 20 | The power of DNA lies in its containing both the instructions for making all the proteins in the cell , and the programme which controls their synthesis . |
| 21 | The greatest virtue of Segal 's book lies in its ability to demonstrate , through three decades of social history ( albeit largely Anglo-American ) the diverse and contradictory nature of masculinities . |
| 22 | One of the major attractions of southeast Antrim as a petroleum prospect lies in its combination of good reservoir rocks with excellent cap rocks provided by the several thick salt units within its Permo-Triassic sequence . |
| 23 | The power of such sources of information , or alleged information , lies in its unprovability , whether true or false . |
| 24 | The ‘ mind ’ of the wasp , therefore , seeks the pattern of the female through an appropriately structured sense organ , but the primary experience of the creature lies in its mind and subtle structure . |
| 25 | A part of the difficulty in leaving county cricket lies in its consuming characteristic . |
| 26 | Its appeal to the visitor lies in its indefinable atmosphere of a home cherished by the same family for over four centuries . |
| 27 | A popular resort , its beaches stretch for miles and the city 's particular charm lies in its past — we visited underground Minoan tombs and explored an old Venetian town , dominated by a well-preserved fortezza and mosques dating from as early as 1670 . |
| 28 | Much of the interest in the experimental modification in Ingolstadt lies in its treatment of a heavily trafficked ring road , as will be seen in Chapter Ten . |
| 29 | The real advantage of the single cone lies in its lighter weight for its area , and the deeper cone in the sail which generates significant lift and is capable of very fast rotation when the centre of pressure is displaced either side of centre . |
| 30 | The weakness of ‘ Oceanic Feeling ’ lies in its clean , compressed production . |