Example sentences of "lie in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I lie in a ditch during the short rest and watch Jake the Algerian move along the road just ahead of me exclaiming ‘ A la attack ’ , a voice from somewhere along the road shouts , ‘ Oh , piss off ’ . |
| 2 | The origins of the foundation of this great national collection lie in a body of private individuals — the Society of the Patriotic Friends of the Arts — founded in 1779 , under the protection of Count Caspar Sternberg , who also founded the National Museum ( see p. 149 ) . |
| 3 | If you look carefully , you may see some ridge and furrow which lie in a reverse-S pattern , a result of the logistics facing the medieval ploughman , who had to manoeuvre eight oxen up and down a field . |
| 4 | Close your eyes and lie in a comfortable position . |
| 5 | The gas fields in the northern part of the N.W. German Basin lie in a region where the coal bearing Carboniferous has reached its deepest level of subsidence at the present time ( Barnard and Cooper 1983 ) . |
| 6 | when the reactor was left hot on that July morning , heat would have crept up the metal to the condenser and melted the crystals , letting tetrachlorobenzene flow back into the reactor and lie in a concentrated layer on top of its contents . |
| 7 | Sit or lie in a comfortable position , read through the exercise and then follow these steps . |
| 8 | As the adventurers lie in a heap , there is a horrid , liquid churning noise from behind the door at the top of the stairs . |
| 9 | For example , perceptual predicates that can be procedurally defined include the following spatial descriptions : x is higher than y ; the distance from x toy is zero ; x is in front of the moving object y ; y is between x and z ; x has boundary y ; x is convex ; x is changing shape ; x has the exterior surface y ; x is included spatially in y ; x , y , and z lie in a straight line ; x travels along the path p . |
| 10 | Third , lead isotope values lie in a small coherent field ( ) similar to the Dupal group and quite different from the trend for mid-ocean-ridge and ocean-island basalts . |
| 11 | However , there are a number of post-war schools of thought which lie in a direct line of descent and which continue a distinctive democratic elitist pattern of argument . |
| 12 | Vega , in Lyra , is skirting the northern horizon , and any slight mist will hide it ; it is worth noting that Vega , Polaris and Capella lie in a fairly straight line , so that when Capella is high up Vega is low down , and vice versa . |
| 13 | Those whose gifts and tastes lie in a certain direction — people who do not have a head for mathematics — may well have been influenced by this in an early career choice . |
| 14 | They stagger off and go and lie in a park or a basement or wherever , until men come along and rape them , and then they 're okay again . |
| 15 | The dual to the case of aligned fibres considered above is the case of aligned discs or plates , in which the normals to the plates lie in a preferred direction . |
| 16 | As long ago as 1750 , some astronomers were suggesting that the appearance of the Milky Way could be explained if most of the visible stars lie in a single dislike configuration , one example of what we now call a spiral galaxy . |
| 17 | And we need we need to make sure that we do n't embark upon this new plan based on a whole pile of suppositions which in fact er lie in a world of fantasy . |
| 18 | The peeled-off clothes lie in a tumbled pile , and — at a velocity far greater than the usual speed of a naked mortal 's shy and shivering run — I convey her into the water , and out of the shallows . |
| 19 | A dry cattle drink in June may be a superb barbel lie in a January flood ! |
| 20 | The islands which make up the nation of Japan lie in an arc off mainland northeast Asia . |
| 21 | Immediately prior to parturition the fetuses lie in an elongated position and can be moved slightly within the uterine lumen . |
| 22 | you lie in an ice-cold drawer , two postal codes away , |
| 23 | However , the rewards which the tutors receive for their labours are not merely financial , but lie in an increased knowledge of the subject concerned , the regard and friendship of the next generation of the actuarial profession , and the repayment of the debt they owe to those who were their tutors and to their profession . |
| 24 | Some areas are viewed more than once during this 16-day repeat cycle because they lie in an area of overlap between adjacent orbits . |
| 25 | Lie in the hulks in chains . |
| 26 | While the north of Cameroun has been badly affected , its key productive areas lie in the high rainfall zones of the western highlands ; in Kenya the old colonial rule-of-thumb that one year in five will be a year of drought has been sustained , and lean years have been followed by bumper crops . |
| 27 | The Ks ' story illustrates the pitfalls which lie in the way of practical implementation . |
| 28 | By Edward VI he was made ‘ Vice Admiral of the King 's ships in the West Seas ’ , and his remains lie in the nearby church of Stratton , where a brass plate depicts the knight , his wife and their twelve children . |
| 29 | The Maritime school acknowledge that the greatest Soviet threat is to Western Europe , but they believe that the most likely threats to British and Western interests lie in the more unstable areas of the world beyond NATO 's boundaries . |
| 30 | I said I would drive into the country , lie in the long grass and watch the sun go down until it was quite dark . |