Example sentences of "[adv] lay in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many that was Buncrana or Fahan in County Donegal where they surfed , skiied , took boat trips or just lay in the sun . |
| 2 | Dexter had been to the hospital where Nowak still lay in a coma . |
| 3 | The ash which had been falling on St Pierre since the beginning of May 1902 continued to accumulate , sifting down softly to cover the ruins of St Pierre in a grey pall and burying many of the bodies that still lay in the debris . |
| 4 | Morning came , but Oliver still lay in the field as if dead . |
| 5 | One would expect to pass those kind of suburbs while lifting the eyes to what still lay in the centre , busy , well kept , and profitable . |
| 6 | Asik still lay in the road . |
| 7 | The TSR 2 did not establish a happy precedent , though the full implications still lay in the future . |
| 8 | But in 1869 , the year of the completion of the first American transcontinental railway , the greatest examples of the picturesque still lay in the future . |
| 9 | Einstein 's famous equation E=mc 2 already existed but its full import for the release of vast energies in radioactivity and other nuclear processes still lay in the future . |
| 10 | Now of course at this point , with many singers , one would have to change key , go into the minor , and report that , though this may have been the vocal prime , interpretative maturity still lay in the future , and that for artistic satisfaction one would have to turn to the well-known recordings of later years . |
| 11 | Even in eastern Europe the active anti-semitic campaigns , which were to stimulate the mass emigration of the Jews , still lay in the future . |
| 12 | Like Smolensk , Kursk was a guberniia administrative centre in 1922 and also lay in a river-valley ( the Seim ) amongst low hills . |
| 13 | The other 's beneficiary was the fidelis Rodulf whose lands also lay in the Limousin . |
| 14 | The 1984 reordering of the church provided the opportunity to examine the contents , and amongst the eight coffins was that of Charles Lethieullier , brother of the celebrated antiquarian , Smart Lethieullier , whose coffin also lay in the vault , though it had lost its outer wooden case and the inner lead shell had split along the joint where left flank and lid met . |
| 15 | The house that when he first saw it had seemed to float on a raft of golden mist , now lay in a wilderness , amidst ragged grass and straggling bushes and trees dead from the heat . |
| 16 | The pathologist had finished with Maurice 's body , which now lay in a chapel of rest in Maidenhead , awaiting a decision on when and where the funeral was to be held . |
| 17 | He prodded the saucer , where the coin now lay in a swirl of green colour . |
| 18 | Through her hair , which now lay in a tangle about her face , she saw a pair of long legs flex . |
| 19 | Mr Major seemed relieved that everything now lay in the lap of the gods . |
| 20 | She managed to sound both coquettish and businesslike , though what really lay in the voice was endless anger . |
| 21 | The failure of the GIST initiative surely lay in the naivety of its approach : the researchers were so concerned to promote a positive ‘ image ’ of science that they brushed aside pupils ' questions on the reality . |
| 22 | The key to this undoubtedly lay in the attraction to the RUC of the idea of research on how routine policing is affected by Northern Ireland 's security situation , and the appeal of giving ordinary policemen and women an opportunity to express their views about policing . |
| 23 | ( Part of the reason for this undoubtedly lay in the fact that the foraging hominids of whom we are speaking were in part already pre-adapted to upright posture by an evolutionary past different to that of today 's gelada baboon and because they probably already possessed cerebral development going beyond that of a mere monkey thanks to their common ancestry with today 's great apes . ) |
| 24 | Hugh dragged food from his sack , the food the thin man had transferred from his saddle-bags and the remains of the Friar 's provisions ; whatever else lay in the bottom of the sack he carefully left there . |