The phrase "feature lies in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to emphasize the location of an important attribute or characteristic. For example, "The main feature of this landscape lies in its breathtaking beauty."
Its important feature lies in the explicit existence of interface conditions.
The strength of "Tuesday, After Christmas," Mr. Muntean's fourth feature, lies in its rigorous, artful and humane fidelity to quotidian circumstance.
Its key feature lies in accounting for the effect of interference as well as for the physical layer and channel characteristics in an easy and straightforward manner.
The main feature lies in the transmission of the voltage potential across the cell membrane: the jump of the potential is proportional to the normal flux thanks to the well-known Kirchoff law.
In the case of "natural selection," the metaphor points toward, and leads one to ask questions about, features that have adaptive value that increase the chances that the individual (or species) will survive; in particular it draws attention to how the adaptive value of the feature lies in the particular function it performs.
The distinct feature lies in mixing while adding the silica source to the surfactant solution.
In this little volume, Dr. Mee describes a new workable scheme for the detection and separation of the common metals, the principal feature lying in the fact that hydrogen sulphide gas is not required in the analytical separations.
An important feature lay in the kind of research regulated within one (the main) system, i.e., whether this depended on the research type (Finland), the party funding the health system (England), or the research site (Canada, USA).
Exploration of universal features lying in wearless friction in mesoscopic systems revealed unique dependence of the frictional force on sliding velocity, applied load, and mean temperature.
In drawing produced north of the Alps, the characteristic features lie in the tendency to pictorial compactness and precise execution of detail.
The performance, directed by Mr. Bando, was a quadruple bill; its most memorable features lay in visual and movement features like costume, scenery, gesture and characterization, some of which were at least as odd as they were fine.
