Example sentences of "this lies [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Currently , to the east of Lough Neagh , near Crumlin , some 420 million tonnes of recoverable lignite has been reported to exist , but two thirds of this lies under the lough itself .
2 This lies at the heart of the citizen 's charter and the Government 's programme for public services in the 1990s .
3 This lies on a branch of the Frome , sandwiched between Ebley and Kings Stanley .
4 Much of the blame for this lies with the Americans who shied away from disarming Somalia 's bandits and instead took guns from soft targets : small businessmen and relief-agency bodyguards .
5 The reason for this lies with the majority of match anglers being brainwashed into using gossamer-fine line and tiny hooks , no matter what the species or situation demands .
6 Perhaps the blame for this lies with the politicians .
7 The reason for this lies in a theory called secondary reinforcement which says that the praise will become associated with the more powerful extra reward and take on some of the strong reinforcing properties of that reward .
8 The reason for this lies in the response of a polymer to an alternating stress .
9 The reason for this lies in the limitations to which I have already referred .
10 This lies in the consideration that , in the beginning , they were externalized as the social conflict between the sons and the primal father .
11 One crucial reason for this lies in the way only one element of Marxist work on the state is used by pluralist critics .
12 The reason for this lies in the fact that the physics depends neither on the states alone nor on the observables alone but upon their interrelation .
13 Respublica derives its authority from the continuous acknowledgement of citizens and this lies in the recognition of their general obligation to obey law rather than in their response to specific precepts .
14 Perhaps the key to this lies in the realm of culture itself .
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