Example sentences of "its [noun] lay [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its heartland lay in the valley of the Loire , in Anjou , not in England . |
| 2 | He informed Prime Minister Kosygin that the ZOPFAN proposal was ‘ not directed at anyone and no one is excluded ’ , that its essence lay in the recognition and harmonisation of the legal interests of all the parties in Southeast Asia , of both the countries actually located in the region and of other powers . |
| 3 | Its origins lay in the Poor Law and it was never to lose that association . |
| 4 | Its basis lay in the simple attraction of like for like , since the constituent units in such ‘ segmental ’ societies were all-of-a-piece . |
| 5 | Its basis lay in the attraction of opposites . |
| 6 | Its brilliance lay in the assumption that , according to this principle , certain places in the periodic table of all the ninety-two elements were still empty , and in predicting the properties of the as yet undiscovered elements which were to fill them . |
| 7 | Its success lay in the clarity and succinctness of exposition of the subject-matter . |
| 8 | Its strength lay in the relatively wealthy wards north of the borough — Forest Gate , Upton and Park — where the local bourgeoisie and petit bourgeoisie were concentrated . |
| 9 | Its distinctiveness lay in the degree of autonomy it had achieved from the ‘ dominating ’ class , a class which in fact was ‘ hardly emerging from destitution and darkness and has no tradition of dominion or command ’ . |
| 10 | The key to its resolution lay in the Army of Africa . |