Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] lay [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the heart of European Socialism lay with the German Social Democratic Party and the largest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union had also been in Germany . |
| 2 | A flouncy negligee and a pair of tights lay over one chair ; the tiny television was perched on another ; a soggy packet of frozen spinach lay beside the gas-ring ; on the crumpled candlewick of the bed an Evening Standard was open at the entertainments ' page so she could decide which film to go and see . |
| 3 | A bed of dense material lay on the sieve and the water/ore/dross mixture fed above it . |
| 4 | Like many observers , UK leaders failed to appreciate that the greatest potential for post-war expansion lay in the trade of industrial goods between industrialized countries . |
| 5 | 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 . |