Example sentences of "[pers pn] lies in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I look forward to the lessons and always feel better immediately , but the difficulty with me lies in trying to maintain my awareness between the lessons , but this is gradually becoming easier . |
| 2 | Dido 's sobbing for her old lover even as she lies in the arms of her new one — this melancholy , which Virgil , and following him Hardy , responded to with such sympathy , is for Pound deathly , it precludes the genuinely ‘ new ’ , which he urgently wants to find and to celebrate . |
| 3 | I 'll show you how she lies in the landscape , in erotic invitation for those who enter … ‘ |
| 4 | She lies in the middle of Europe and has no protected borders … |
| 5 | She lies in a glass box in front of one of the side altars separating the school chapel from the one the nuns use , both fronting onto the heavily railed-Off sanctuary , surrounded by dusty wax flowers and palms and night-lights winking in ruby glass containers . |
| 6 | She lies in the churchyard in the village of Wootton , near Dorking : ‘ Elizabeth Titford . |
| 7 | Her face has been seen on millions of TV screens in the chocolate advert , where she lies in a bath calmly eating a Flake . |
| 8 | She lies in an open corner of the churchyard , where she can breathe the air from the moors . |
| 9 | Former Vogue model Rachel , who lives in Liverpool , features in a television advert in which she lies in a bath eating a Flake bar . |
| 10 | The other half of it lies in mobilising party and public support sufficiently strongly to leave Mrs Thatcher with no choice but to readmit him to the Cabinet if the Tories do return to office after the next election . |
| 11 | It lies in one simple point . |
| 12 | If my past work has any value at all , it lies in my having exhorted my readers to love the forest depths ; to feel the enchantment of their vast silences , their cunning hidden flowers ; their murky scents ; the sighing of their leaves ; the teasing hints of sunlight or moonlight through the treetops. forests by coupling with his bride in full view . |
| 13 | Mr Smith has no explanation for the defeat , although his supporters imply that it lies in the personality of Neil Kinnock . |
| 14 | Troll is a technological challenge since it lies in 340 metres which is 150 metres more than the deepest producing well in the North Sea , on the BP Magnus Field . |
| 15 | Your power is great — and there I am not equal to you — but it lies in me to make you smile , and if you and I never meet , then this play of love remains incomplete . ’ |
| 16 | The missing 90 per cent is where the left-hand brain thinkers would not dream of looking for it — it lies in our capacity to create pictures , to visualize . |
| 17 | Miss Cumbey 's work is a prophetic book and , as with all prophecy , the test of it lies in the future . |
| 18 | It lies in sops or bellies , surrounded by hard rocks , which will readily account for its being suddenly lost ; and these sops or bellies , being generally at considerable distances , will equally well account for the difficulty with which it is commonly regained … ’ |
| 19 | If there is a defect in his narrative , it lies in the relatively scanty comment on the impact of JPL on the national and international scientific community . |
| 20 | If plants do have a focus for the Life Force , it lies in their roots , for many plants regularly shed some or all of their above ground growth with the cycling of the seasons , regenerating in the next year from their roots . |
| 21 | Mr Smith believes it lies in treating the educated public as reasonable people and facing up to the fact that their expectations do need satisfying . |
| 22 | It lies in a quarter of an acre of secluded garden in the delightful village of Rockbourne . |
| 23 | Underwater , their nymph is just as efficient a predator and unlike the roaming adult , it lies in ambush for other insect nymphs , and larvae , for other aquatic bugs , and even for young fish fry . |
| 24 | It lies in the western shadows of Thunder Mountain , and was discovered by the Dwarfs who mined into it creating a labyrinth of tunnels , caverns and partially complete workings . |
| 25 | Rather , its importance results from where it lies in the circuits of the left hemisphere and the way that it processes the inputs it receives . |
| 26 | If there is a standard of comparison for the USSR 's wartime losses , it lies in McNamara 's statistics , rather than in our experience of the Second World War . |
| 27 | If there is any reason for hope , it lies in the world 's lack of interest . |
| 28 | It lies in extending the possibilities of the Prado disperso , in which paintings are lent to embassies , universities , and so forth . |
| 29 | The fourth largest lake in Iceland , it lies in the middle of an area of intense geothermal and volcanic activity , and its thirty-seven square kilometres of water surface provide a summer home to large numbers of waterfowl . |
| 30 | We refer to everything in the plane exterior to 1.5kpc as the ‘ disk ’ , and consider all material inside 1.5kpc , whether or not it lies in the plane , to be part of the bulge . |