Example sentences of "[noun sg] lay in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The optimism lay in the potential for development in the hitherto largely neglected extra-metropolitan southern fringe of the District . |
| 2 | This change is often described as being from a general tendency to blame the fecklessness and idleness of the poor for their poverty , to recognition that the fault lay in the structure of the economy ; from a ‘ moral ’ to an ‘ economic ’ diagnosis . |
| 3 | Thomas Edwards suggested that the fault lay in the way the book was assembled . |
| 4 | Although armed force lay in the background of every statesman 's consciousness , it was not the normal instrument of competition between states . |
| 5 | But he might at least be " useful " , as he had wanted , and part of that usefulness lay in the fact that , on one level at least , his poetry could have a public and national purpose — although , when the war had been won , he no longer cared to draw attention to those aspects of it . |
| 6 | She had brought things to make their evening meal and she emptied them on to the work-counter : wine , cheese , spinach , onions , bread , the pink-white tines of a rack of lamb , as if all the promise of their future lay in the guarantee of such ordinariness being possible . |
| 7 | The danger for the future lay in the fact that the conflict between Austria-Hungary and Russia in the Balkans was still there . |
| 8 | He informed Prime Minister Kosygin that the ZOPFAN proposal was ‘ not directed at anyone and no one is excluded ’ , that its essence lay in the recognition and harmonisation of the legal interests of all the parties in Southeast Asia , of both the countries actually located in the region and of other powers . |
| 9 | The basis of his educational philosophy lay in the belief that ‘ practical instruction ’ should be central to any curriculum for only then could ‘ mental and moral training ’ occur which , together with a sense of esprit de corps created within each school , would help to cultivate the spirit of ‘ civic responsibility ’ . |
| 10 | But World War I gave him the chance to stand on internationalist ground with an uncompromising fervour and personal courage that gave him a status denied to most of the others , whose work lay in the factories and in the shop stewards ' movement . |
| 11 | The main influence of Toynbee Hall lay in the numbers of civil servants and politicians later influential in the social policy field who gained early experience as residents , including Alfred Milner , later Governor-General of South Africa , and William Beveridge who was sub-warden of Toynbee Hall from 1903 to 1907 . |
| 12 | The prospect for Korea regaining independence lay in the defeat of Japan : only two powers could achieve this , the United States and the Soviet Union . |
| 13 | The importance of citizenship lay in the individual ‘ giving ’ to his city , rather than taking from it . |
| 14 | The essential contradiction lay in the incompatibilities of ‘ command ’ policies and ‘ market ’ practice . |
| 15 | I noticed that the Barwick men took no chances this time ; as the pole lay in the field it was wired up to an electronic burglar alarm system , but they still took it in turns to sit up and keep an eye on it . |
| 16 | His great qualification for the new post lay in the fact that since 1823 he had been an outstandingly successful Governor of New Russia ( the coastal part of the modern Ukraine ) . |
| 17 | The difference lay in the reader . ’ |
| 18 | The difference lay in the fact that there were in India so many of them , exhibiting a hugely diverse range of styles . |
| 19 | Britain 's salvation lay in the EEC . |
| 20 | The snag lay in the circumstances under which a peasant could move from permanent use to " full ownership " of the land which he worked . |
| 21 | The snag lay in the price of meat , the Bank wanting it raised to choke off local demand and free meat for export , the government wanting it held at its current low level to keep urban meat-eaters happy . |
| 22 | Its basis lay in the attraction of opposites . |
| 23 | They had received the reports in the Place of Healing , where the body lay in the courtyard , protected from the flies and the heat by wet wrappings , waiting for someone to claim it and give permission for an examination to begin , before it was taken to the embalmers . |
| 24 | MUCH of the breeding ground for Czechoslovakia 's revolution lay in the baroque atmosphere of Prague 's elegant cafes . |
| 25 | Vechey 's corpse lay in the centre of the tower near a rickety hut , formerly used by guards on sentry duty . |
| 26 | The moon lay in the tree-tops like a squashed Gouda in a dish of broccoli . |
| 27 | Water lay in the ruts and in some places marshy muddy patches had developed where water-grasses grew and the track had spread to pass them now on this side , now on that . |
| 28 | The wind was fresh , and although there was no rain , there were puddles along the length of the chestnut avenue , and water lay in the furrows of the ploughed fields . |
| 29 | On this occasion there was serious difficulty in settling the crown presentee , and the very real danger to the political interest of the duke lay in the fact that the Opposition and the rival candidate were set up by some of his own friends . |
| 30 | The only departure from the established procedure lay in the fact that the copy of the order seems to have been served upon or issued to M. 's solicitors by the court rather than being served by the applicant 's solicitor . |