Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] lie at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He might try to justify the principle by appealing to logic , a recourse that we freely grant him , or he might attempt to justify the principle by appealing to experience , a recourse that lies at the basis of his whole approach to science . |
| 2 | I see its loss as lying at the root of many current social problems . ’ |
| 3 | Keynes summarized the fallacy that lay at the heart of the classical theory of labour market adjustment : |
| 4 | But the model of management that lay at the heart of this strategy was narrow , both in its conception of what makes the management of public services distinctive and in the lessons it chose to draw from the business world . |
| 5 | Not only was the advent of computing perhaps rather longer and more protracted than in some other disciplines , but invariably it is the case that the very nature of computer application in history is rather different , and it is this difference that lies at the root of the oncoming problem . |
| 6 | For us now , I think , the desolation that lies at the heart of this music needs no additional dissonance or atonalism to guarantee its creativity , and the grim joviality of ‘ King Pest ’ , in the Rondo Burlesca , is savage farce of a particularly modern ( as well as Elizabethan ) kind : compare for instance , the fiercely jaunty ‘ Out there , we 've walked quite friendly up to Death ’ in Britten 's War Requiem . |
| 7 | Enthusiastic supporters claimed that the movement gave to ‘ the Free Churches a unity they have never had before ’ although this same observer recognized that it was ‘ the Establishment that lies at the foundation of our contention ’ . |
| 8 | It is this concept that lies at the back of R. P. A. Edwards ' attack on dial-access retrieval systems : |
| 9 | It is a lack of respect , a feeling of our own superiority and our pride that lie at the root of this response . |
| 10 | The theory that lies at the core of Layard 's analysis is the ‘ real wage resistance ’ hypothesis : workers have a target real wage which they strive to achieve and defend through the wage bargaining process . |
| 11 | It was a tenet that lay at the roots of his later reputation as the over-cautious general , later still as a pessimist , and finally , a defeatist . |
| 12 | In the end the choices rest with the Cabinet and lie at the heart of modern politics . |
| 13 | I suspect that if we were to take a sensate tension structure such as the love-hate paradox that lies at the heart of Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet theme , we would be able to transpose it into different forms each appropriate to a particular culture , and , provided we had the necessary skill of course , we would be able to do this for all cultures in the world . |
| 14 | The other school of thought on hypnosis emphasises the special social situation that lies at the core of hypnosis . |
| 15 | In his presidential address to the Society for the Study of Social Problems , Wheeler ( 1976 ) claimed that ‘ the patterns of illegal activity that lie at the core of large-scale corporate , industrial society … have been almost totally neglected ’ . |
| 16 | This point is made not in the interests of pedantry , but because it bears directly on the criticisms of current approaches to the global system that lie at the heart of this book . |
| 17 | The plasterwork has peeled to reveal the red sandstone underneath ; and in places that sandstone has in turn crumbled away to reveal the intricate brickwork that lies at the core of the structure . |
| 18 | Associativity provides a cellular analogue of classical conditioning , and is an implicit property of the Hebb synapse , the computing element that lies at the heart of the current interest in neural computation . |
| 19 | He must think in terms of thousand upon thousand of repetitions when practising a particular kata , for only through constant repetition will he be able to master the basic fighting movements and to achieve the physical and spiritual sensitivity that lies at the heart of the martial arts . |
| 20 | One can forget for a while the rigours faced everyday and appreciate wholeheartedly the kind of escapism that lies at the root of ‘ The Passionate Shepherd to his love ’ and ‘ The Garden ’ and all other poems which make up the pastoral garden . |
| 21 | But it is the realm of production itself ( of paid employment ) which is seen by this perspective as lying at the heart of capitalism and uneven development . |