Example sentences of "[noun] lies at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Lido di Camaiore lies at the northern end of Viareggio , next to Marina di Pietrasanta , in the most fashionable part of the Tuscan coast .
2 ‘ The ideal milieu , ’ says the reply from the WCC , ‘ would be in a Third World country ( where ) the ‘ laboratory ’ for research lies at the very door-step of the academic institution .
3 This duty which every partner owes to each of his co-partners lies at the very heart of the partnership relationship .
4 A feeling of failure lies at the very heart of Serb nationalism , and with that come all the various justifications for this failure : all the various Cominterns , masonries and their unbelievable plots .
5 The junction lies at the far end of Junction 6 of the M6 , Gravelly Hill Interchange or Spaghetti Junction , the most complicated motorway interchange in Britain , offering freeflow routes between the M6 , A38M and A5127 and also linking in various local roads .
6 Hong Kong lies at the southern end of an eroded chain of sedimentary rocks with some granite and volcanic outpourings .
7 London lies at the last point where a Roman bridge could comfortably cross the Thames , where landborne traffic and ships from overseas could readily meet .
8 The second major problem with Comte 's positivism lies at the other end of his hierarchy , at the level of the social .
9 They have conceded only three goals — all from set-pieces — in opening defeats by Korea ( 0-1 ) and Spain ( 0-2 ) , but the major deficiency lies at the other end of the pitch .
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