Example sentences of "[pers pn] lies [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She lies in an open corner of the churchyard , where she can breathe the air from the moors . |
| 2 | It lies on a prominent gravity high on the east shore of Lough Neagh : perhaps not surprisingly , it found no Carboniferous and passed from Permian into Lower Palaeozoic grits . |
| 3 | It lies on the eastern edge of the Ruhr coalfield and is some fifteen miles from the Möhne Dam , one of the targets of the famous ‘ Dambusters ’ raid . |
| 4 | It lies on the northern margin of the Skiddaw Granite in a greisen zone with veins of quartz carrying wolframite , scheelite and sulphides ( MRP 7 , 33 and 60 ; Ball and others , 1985a ) . |
| 5 | Unfortunately it must be said that in binoculars ( or , for that matter , in most telescopes ) it is disappointing , because it lies at a narrow angle to us and the full beauty of the spiral is lost . |
| 6 | There 's only one thing that struck me when I was reading through it but a as I say , we we got to look at this from point of view are we going to date this as it lies at the present moment and add to it pieces that we want , or do we start off by having the pieces o i its its now whe w w |
| 7 | It lies at the extreme edge of the constellation , and I have found that the best way to locate it is to use Beta Comæ , which is of magnitude 4.3 and lies rather off a line joining Cor Caroli to Arcturus ; though dim , Beta Comæ is rather isolated , and not difficult to identify . |
| 8 | Local authorities were anxious to redevelop the area as soon as possible , as it lies at the very heart of the town 's commercial district . |
| 9 | The action would not be an indirect method of enforcing the contract against the other contracting party because it lies against a third party and in tort . |
| 10 | Although All Saints is not a listed building , it lies within a conservation area so that any proposal to demolish it would have been subject to same scrutiny as plans for the demolition of a listed building . |
| 11 | It is not easy to identify , because it lies in a rich area and there are no convenient guides to it . |
| 12 | Peć is still the spiritual centre of the Serbian Orthodox Church , but it lies in a remote corner of Yugoslavia , close to the Albanian border , in the Albanian-speaking province of Kosovo . |
| 13 | It lies in a shallow valley a couple of clicks north of Redondo . |
| 14 | It lies in a direct line with Theta ( 3.7 ) and Epsilon , and there is a sixth-magnitude star close beside it . |
| 15 | If there 's one hope in the farming community these days , it lies in the private tenant farming , which began under Gorbachov . |
| 16 | It lies in the immediate background of another family of views of consciousness which , at the time I write , is propagated with the zeal which once went into behaviourism . |
| 17 | It lies in the western shadows of Thunder Mountain , and was discovered by the Dwarfs who mined into it creating a labyrinth of tunnels , caverns and partially complete workings . |
| 18 | It lies in the sporting feelings it draws aht o' people . |
| 19 | The key factor lies elsewhere : it lies in the political environment of tsarist Russia . |
| 20 | It lies in the same field as the rather reddish Nu² ; ( 3.9 ) , forming a triangle with Nu² ; and Sirius . |
| 21 | The top part of the well section can not be seen from the entrance viewpoint as it lies behind the retaining wall and is covered by earth and vegetation . |
| 22 | He lies beside the collapsed body , crying , ‘ Who else must be let blood , who else is rank . ’ |
| 23 | But , an hour later , the models tearing at his clothes as he lies in the king-size bed , he seems resigned to the proceedings . |