Example sentences of "do not lie in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While freedom movements in central and eastern Africa were stimulated by these coercive policies , an effective means of ideological diffusion did not lie in the hands of African cultivators nor their leaders , and therefore the analytical lessons to be drawn did not find their way into the international conventional wisdom about conservation . |
| 2 | More cynical observers thought the explanation for this did not lie in the naivety of Irish politicians , but in the coincidence of interest between the mining companies and certain politicians . |
| 3 | The value of an officer 's place in an East Indiaman did not lie in the salary , which was only marginally more attractive than that paid to other ship 's officers . |
| 4 | The relevance of these organizations certainly did not lie in the number of their supporters and activists . |
| 5 | It may be said that , over many years , I have seldom known cases of marital difficulty in which sexual difficulty did not lie in the background ; but , equally , I have seldom known marriages where a major relationship difficulty has not had its effect on the satisfactions of sex . |
| 6 | The reasons why so many seek futures in sports , and in rather specific areas of sport , do not lie in the rather obscure realms of anatomy , physiology or psychology . |
| 7 | In the teeth of the evidence I do not believe that any suffering is ultimately absurd or pointless … the value of suffering does not lie in the pain of it but in what the sufferer makes of it . |
| 8 | The power does not lie in the techniques , but in love . |
| 9 | ‘ God 's Kingdom does not lie in the distant future but is imminent . |
| 10 | The creative process does not lie in the act of dreaming , but in the communication of a dream . |
| 11 | Gramsci 's originality as a Marxist lay partly in his conception of the nature of bourgeois rule ( and indeed of any previous established social order ) , in his argument that the system 's real strength does not lie in the violence of the ruling class , or the coercive power of its state apparatus , but in the acceptance by the ruled of a ‘ conception of the world ’ which belongs to the rulers . |
| 12 | It is clearly impossible to anticipate every eventuality , but the guiding principle must be that if the source of difficulty does not lie in the implementation of a selected strategy and is not being assessed during the conduct of the investigation , then assistance can be given . |
| 13 | The most obvious moral interpretation of the assimilation of monk and merchant does not lie in the drawing down of the merchant to the level of the monk so much as in showing the monk to be transgressing the bounds of his special profession by entering into the commercial market place to procure a whore for himself . |
| 14 | Biddy does n't lie in the grass telling us what to do ! |
| 15 | The occult power of dictators does n't lie in the fact that they 're clever they 're frequently quite limited , and I think Milosevic is a very limited man but in the fact that they can draw a great number of people and even whole nations into the circle of their mad ideas . |
| 16 | The real distinction does n't lie in the fact of ownership , but in control . |