Example sentences of "[noun] lay in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The key lay in the uncontrolled growth of London . |
| 2 | Delaney , Nell and Andrevitch lay in the cramped area of a bifurcation of the vent , dark , claustrophobic , sweating — but safe . |
| 3 | To either side great chunks of masonry lay in the tall grasses , pieces of fallen statuary among them . |
| 4 | Its origins lay in the Poor Law and it was never to lose that association . |
| 5 | The village lay in the opposite direction . |
| 6 | William Quekett was living in fashionable Well Close Square in the 1840s — a few doors away from John Frederick Hasted , Benjamin Titford 's cousin — but his real work lay in the poor courts and alleyways of the parish at large , where his dedication and Christian charity had made him a legendary figure . |
| 7 | Artemis lay in the darkened room . |
| 8 | However , as he gazed lovingly over at his beautiful Laura , gently rocking the tiny babies in her arms , he knew that the true definition of his deep joy and delight lay in the collective noun : a pride of lions ! |
| 9 | The main reason for buoyant government revenues lay in the increasing returns from VAT and other taxes on the consumer , and on increasing Corporation Tax returns from business profits . |
| 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 | Its basis lay in the simple attraction of like for like , since the constituent units in such ‘ segmental ’ societies were all-of-a-piece . |
| 12 | For most of the two centuries after Tomislav 's accession in AD 900 , the effective authority of Croatia lay in the coastal region north of Šibenik . |
| 13 | The administration 's success in cutting the budget was an impressive accomplishment , but for supply-side hawks like David Stockman , it was only a means to an end , an essential first step , for the real heart of the Reagan Revolution lay in the massive tax cut needed to unfetter the capitalist system and to revive the American economy . |
| 14 | His chief pride lay in the talented cartoonists he fostered and encouraged . |
| 15 | Now he had to face cares and obligations which had been unknown to him before ; and the beginning of his cares lay in the stern discipline of the study of books . |
| 16 | The most striking difference from Smolensk lay in the large numbers of peasant communes : before 1917 most Belorussian farms had belonged to individual families . |
| 17 | This concern displays a deeper understanding of the contradictions in science and technology than that which was articulated by the anti-science movement of the 1970s whose antecedents lay in the anti-culture movement of the 1960s . |
| 18 | The sting lay in the final paragraph and its origin was unmistakable . |
| 19 | The reasons for the establishment of the Royal Commission lay in the continued growth of London and the confusion of local government institutions that had resulted . |
| 20 | I and my best friend Katy lay in the long grass below the tennis courts . |
| 21 | Part of the trouble lay in the German command 's ruthless system of keeping divisions in the line over lengthy periods , constantly topping up the losses with new replacements . |
| 22 | The main attraction of the Copernican theory lay in the neat way it explained a number of features of planetary motion , which could be explained in the rival Ptolemaic theory only in an unattractive , artificial way . |
| 23 | The principal obstacle to transplantation lay in the subtle differences between the tissues of one individual and another , differences which provoked immune reactions between the recipient and the transplanted organ . |
| 24 | For Comte , this evolutionary movement lay in the growing division of labour in society . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | One difficulty lay in the endless commissions he received , usually for illustrative work within an established vein and which left him little time to experiment . |
| 27 | The difficulty lay in the vague nature of trusteeship as a concept and its uncertain duration . |
| 28 | A further difficulty lay in the social context of the secondment . |
| 29 | Beneath their discursiveness , these books exhibit a coherent social theory : the way to social progress lay in the rational wills of individuals , and true philanthropy consisted in supporting and strengthening that rational will rather than in the mechanical relief of poverty . |
| 30 | As noted in annual reports in the late forties and again in the early fifties , the main problems in the development of WEA provision lay in the urban areas — a reversal of pre-war conditions when accessibility of rural areas was difficult and prevented significant growth until the appointment of resident tutors . |