Example sentences of "which lay at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So perhaps Hahnemann was quite right when he suggested that inherited factors from past infections or infections suffered by ancestors caused imbalances which lay at the heart of the chronic diseases . |
| 2 | It was this issue which lay at the heart of Dicey 's concern about droit administratif . |
| 3 | This was the question which lay at the heart of every murder investigation ; and yet he knew its absurdity before he asked it . |
| 4 | Like the Mirza Nama , the Shah Jehan Nama worships superficial , shiny things — gifts , uniforms , jewels — and deliberately ignores the darkness and corruption which lay at the heart of the court . |
| 5 | In the autumn of 1955 , while the pages of the Spectator continued to be filled with angry reaction to Henry Fairlie 's remarks about the Establishment , its radical counterpart , the New Statesman tackled the family which lay at the Establishment 's heart . |
| 6 | Clement wrote the third book of his Miscellanies to attack the Gnostic denial of the goodness of the created order , which lay at the root of their contradictory attitudes to sex , either as a repulsive carnality or as a source of phallic ecstasy . |
| 7 | Modern discussion of the issue has normally centred on the role of the Woodvilles , who are identified as the cause of a split within the ruling group which lay at the root of the crisis . |
| 8 | Modern discussion of the issue has normally centred on the role of the Woodvilles , who are identified as the cause of a split within the ruling group which lay at the root of the crisis . |
| 9 | Luke and Sonny headed towards the wide square of open ground which lay at the end of the lane . |