Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] lay [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Silver plumes of snow lay across the peaks . |
| 2 | The reason for the decision was that the burden of proof lay on the defendants to prove that they had not been negligent and they had failed to discharge this burden . |
| 3 | Although the Poles participated in the Reichstag , in the Prussian Diet and in the North German Union Parliament , their main areas of activity lay in the co-operatives , culture clubs , in popular education societies , reading rooms , choirs , orchestras and libraries that grew up in the 1880s ; in Catholic social organisations , in the physical culture movement and in the popular Polish-language daily newspapers like the Grudziądz Codzienny . |
| 4 | It is quite clear that in the 17th and 18th centuries and , indeed , up to the enactment of the Judicature Act 1873 the courts , and in particular the Court of King 's Bench , consistently declined to exercise any jurisdiction over any matters in which a right of appeal lay from the benchers of an Inn to the judges sitting as a domestic tribunal . |
| 5 | Lace underwear and a slipper trimmed with marabou lay among the sheets on an open divan . |
| 6 | Revolutionary propaganda inspired by events in Russia had an effect , but the chief cause for mutiny lay in the soldiers ' disgust at their commanders ' inept leadership , Nivelle 's in particular . |