Example sentences of "lie at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Germany does once again lie at the heart of Europe . |
| 2 | This involved what were described as ‘ initial forgings for the pressure vessel ’ — the 36-foot-high steel cylinder which would lie at the heart of the reactor — as well as other basic equipment . |
| 3 | This way of thinking does not lie at the disposal of the thinker . |
| 4 | As will be indicated below , I do not feel that much ( if any ) of the explanation can lie at the door of the police station . |
| 5 | There is still , too , about the whole exercise , something of the ‘ Polo Syndrome ’ : a sense that , for all the subject reports , and statutory orders , and non-statutory guidance , there is nothing at the centre : no clear vision of the values that should lie at the heart of a national system of education . |
| 6 | Indeed , the results of recent research suggest that abnormalities of prostaglandin metabolism may lie at the heart of the majority of the chronic degenerative diseases — defects in particular enzymes giving rise to different aspects of chronic disease . |
| 7 | It is the fragment that will lie at the heart of your novel . |
| 8 | According to ns.62A(1) : ‘ No action in respect of a contravention to which section 62 above applies shall lie at the suit of a person other than a private investor , except in such circumstances as may be specified by regulations made by the Secretary of State ’ ( emphasis added ) . |
| 9 | In others still , some factor in the development of relationships may lie at the root of paedophiliac tendency . |
| 10 | Not only does this lie at the heart of current government policies on higher education , but a good deal of empirical work has been done on it , particularly on the relationship between higher education and initial employment . |
| 11 | Thus William Gilpin remarks in 1791 that Petworth House is badly situated because it does not lie at the centre of its park , but at an extremity , where it is elbowed by the churchyard ; Repton , whom Mr Rushworth thinks of employing at Sotherton , explains that proximity to a village may lessen dignity . |
| 12 | ‘ An action of libel will lie at the suit of an incorporated trading company in respect of a libel calculated to injure its reputation in the way of its business , without proof of special damage . |
| 13 | In South Hetton Coal Co . Ltd. v. North-Eastern News Association Ltd. [ 1894 ] 1 Q.B. 133 this court held that an action of libel will lie at the suit of an incorporated trading company in respect of a libel calculated to injure its reputation in the way of its business , without proof of special damage . |
| 14 | but he he would never stay except , you know , it always had to be in respectable kind of a barn or something he would live in , least And in fact instead of that he would ra if it was good days he would rather lie at the dyke side . |
| 15 | It can be shown that if all the constituent elements in these compounds are present beneath the clouds in solar relative abundances then the bases of the three types of cloud will lie at the altitudes shown in Figure 9.5 . |
| 16 | It must also lie at the heart of all CCW 's policy objectives . |
| 17 | The study of " kinship " really does lie at the very heart of social anthropology and anthropologists argue a great deal among themselves about just what the word is supposed to mean . |
| 18 | In the shift from 1975 to 1990 away from " concerns about equity and fairness and a concentration on more practical and immediate questions of efficiency and relevance " , discussions have to " lie at the heart of the democratic debate between and within the parties , and a constant flow of messages , coded and uncoded , ensures that the discussion is never far below the surface " ( Maclure 1990:14 ) . |
| 19 | Archive sources have very special qualities , and should therefore lie at the heart of any attempt to use primary evidence in the history classroom . |
| 20 | The authors attributed this to low-frequency jumping between the two attractors , and suggested that such behaviour may lie at the root of the puzzling low-frequency noise spectra displayed in many nonlinear physical systems — systems as diverse as electrical resistors , biological membranes and automobile traffic flow . |