Example sentences of "[noun] lie at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wealth generation and the creation of employment opportunities lie at the very heart of economic development . |
| 2 | Class accents lie at the heart of such mimicry , though on the printed page a betraying turn of phrase , or a tell-tale choice of words like ‘ dodgy ’ or ‘ darling ’ , can be represented more easily than an impure vowel . |
| 3 | Questions concerned with access to the curriculum lie at the heart of any whole-school policy . |
| 4 | The issues of freedom of conscience and freedom from Roman hegemony lie at the centre of Northern Ireland fundamentalism and are meshed in with its evangelical tenets . |
| 5 | Somehow or other that piece of parchment and the seed cake lie at the very heart of the murder and they must know something about both . |
| 6 | The bends lie at the centres of the met boxes , and correspond to compression of the major groove to a width of 9.4 around the bound repressor β -ribbons , and opening of the opposite minor groove to 8.3 . |
| 7 | Several apparently larger and more developed buildings lie at the ends of short side-lanes behind the main frontages . |
| 8 | Crates of beer and wine lie at the side of the road , covered with a tarpaulin , a brazier burns and an alsatian dog keeps guard outside a broken down caravan . |
| 9 | These inward struggles for wholeness as a person lie at the heart of what it means to be a Christian . |
| 10 | The female 's sperm storage tubules are sausage-shaped and sperm lie at the bottom of the tube . |
| 11 | Catalysts lie at the very heart of the chemicals industry . |
| 12 | Without it , the colonies , the commerce , the navigation of Great Britain lie at the mercy of the House of Bourbon . |
| 13 | Across the dale from Aysgarth , Penhill Beacon and West Burton lie at the northernmost end of that beautiful secluded dale , Waldendale . |
| 14 | This development is followed towards the north by a sharp uplift in the horst of Ibbenbüren where Westphalian C and D lie at the ground surface , — followed by a renewed deep subsidence within the Lower Saxony Basin and , farther to the northwest , into the North Sea . |
| 15 | The fact that Estonia and the Ukraine have proposed the issue of their own currencies illustrates how the control of tax and expenditure lie at the heart of independent government . |
| 16 | The grounds lie at the foot of the south Antrim hills , and the land fronting the main buildings slopes down to the shores of Belfast Lough . |
| 17 | The grounds lie at the foot of the south Antrim hills , and the land fronting the main buildings slopes down to the shores of Belfast Lough . |