Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] lay [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coronation Hill lay within the remote Kakadu Conservation Zone , adjacent to the 1,900,00-hectare Kakadu National Park . |
| 2 | As noted in annual reports in the late forties and again in the early fifties , the main problems in the development of WEA provision lay in the urban areas — a reversal of pre-war conditions when accessibility of rural areas was difficult and prevented significant growth until the appointment of resident tutors . |
| 3 | The Chancellor 's headquarters were then Queen Anne 's Throne Room in what is now the Cabinet Office , and the nearest route to it from 11 Downing Street lay through the connecting doors of number 10 . |
| 4 | CLAIMS that the future of Point of Ayr colliery lay in the hands of local management were refuted yesterday by Delyn MP David Hanson . |
| 5 | The remote origins of Emanuel School lay in the sixteenth century and a small charitable foundation for the elderly and the young . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Colonel Fergusson lay in the cold square bedroom of his cold square house three miles outside Dublin and listened to the clicking overhead . |
| 8 | Mrs Hobbs lay on the back seat . |
| 9 | The one change to what he had recounted to Mrs Wilson lay in the time he had spent in London : he told Maidstone he 'd spent six months there . |
| 10 | Mrs Popple lay on the bathroom floor , her jaw muscles having gone into spasms . |
| 11 | Mrs Popple lay on the operating table . |
| 12 | The administration 's success in cutting the budget was an impressive accomplishment , but for supply-side hawks like David Stockman , it was only a means to an end , an essential first step , for the real heart of the Reagan Revolution lay in the massive tax cut needed to unfetter the capitalist system and to revive the American economy . |
| 13 | Fisher Row lay on the west bank of the Castle Mill stream , a small tributary of the Thames , in three sections known as Upper , Middle and Lower Fisher Row . |
| 14 | The temptation is to see this as part of a general dynamic conditioned by similar wartime experiences , party organisations and social structures ; but historically the areas contrasted strongly , and West Ham lay outside the influence of Morrison 's London Labour Party ( p 29 below ) . |
| 15 | The main benefit to the United States of the Smithsonian Agreement lay in the new exchange rates which embodied a 9 per cent devaluation of the dollar in relation to other currencies compared with the pre-August rates and thus increased US competitiveness . |
| 16 | The Lamb Inn lay on the other side of Burford , down a side-turning off the High Street . |
| 17 | Both descriptions were correct , for cordwainer was a somewhat old-fashioned term for a shoemaker and Thurlstone township lay within the parish of Penistone . |