Example sentences of "[noun sg] lay at the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their post-war reconciliation lay at the heart of its foundations and the Franco-German axis is still its ‘ motor ’ . |
| 2 | The letter bearing the Belgian stamp lay at the bottom of the morning 's post . |
| 3 | But the party 's MEP , Jim Nicholson , dismissed the claims as ‘ utter nonsense ’ and said the blame lay at the door of the Northern Ireland Office . |
| 4 | He points out that the reporting of the Brixton riot was marked by a discursive struggle between the ‘ law-and-order discourse ’ and a ‘ contra-discourse ’ , which sought to demystify ‘ the hitherto unproblematic position of the police ’ , by emphasising the possibility that police harassment and brutality lay at the root of the disorder . |
| 5 | Her body lay at the rest in the chapel downstairs , the light filtering in through lancet windows on her oak coffin and the dark-stained , hand-carved pews . |
| 6 | And last night it was revealed that the murdered child 's body lay at the scene for over four hours because of fears of another blast . |
| 7 | According to the Social Purity Alliance , founded in 1873 , male vice lay at the heart of the problem of immorality . |
| 8 | The railway station lay at the heart of all these developments . |
| 9 | Although the popularity of the war economy lay at the root of the growth of socialism during the First World War , liberal internationalism was quick to reassert itself once the war was over . |
| 10 | Radical changes in Defence policy lay at the root of Macmillan 's aspirations . |
| 11 | Its designated area lay at the heart of one of the most economically depressed cities in Western Europe which had suffered a massive withdrawal of private capital during the previous three decades and endured a series of political traumas in the process ( Parkinson , 1985 , Figure 3.1 ) . |
| 12 | Militant feminists pointed out that sexual antagonism lay at the heart of the suffrage struggle and could never be resolved within the discourse of political liberalism . |
| 13 | A roll of corduroy lay at the end of the counter . |
| 14 | What I did not realise then — but what I would discover the moment I embarked on my journey to those front doors — was that I had touched upon the essence of the Arab–Israeli war ; that while the existence of the Palestinians and their demand for a nation lay at the heart of the Middle East crisis , it was the contradiction inherent in the claims to ownership of the land of Palestine — the ‘ homeland ’ of the Jews in Balfour 's declaration — which generated the anger and fear of both Palestinians and Israelis . |
| 15 | Watchers on the Springburn Hill saw the shadows creep across the valley until the city lay at the bottom of a deep pit of shadow , dwarfed by a gargantuan wall of night that marched across the southern hills from Cathkin to the Gleniffer Braes . |
| 16 | For Reich , therefore , the petit bourgeois partriarchal family lay at the heart of fascism . |
| 17 | Only the grease lay at the bottom of the bowl . |