Sentence examples for idea lay from inspiring English sources

The idea lay dormant for several decades and came to fruition during IGY with the British Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition led by Vivian Fuchs.

By carefully controlling its properties, he could turn a single chip of semiconductor into resistors, capacitors and transistors connected in any way he liked.Smaller and smallerBy September 12th, the idea lay in his hand.

This idea lay behind the founding in 1991 of Mercosur, a group originally comprising Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.But the left-wing governments in charge of those countries for much of the past decade have turned Mercosur into a different kind of enterprise.

The idea lay dormant until some anonymous fan translated the work and posted it to 4chan in 2007.

In the meantime, some tech leaders have another idea: lie low.

This idea lies behind Adam Sisman's Boswell's Presumptuous Task (Hamish Hamilton, £17.99).

"THE value of an idea lies in the using of it," Thomas Edison is said to have remarked.

A simple idea lies behind Spring for Music, the six-day festival at Carnegie Hall that began on Monday with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and continued on Tuesday with the Albany Symphony Orchestra.

The idea lies dormant until fiction (sort of) becomes fact 70 years later, when Nike develop a robot arm, in 2000, to test its new clubs.

You look down and, reflected, feel yourself, as Ms Horn puts it, "falling right into it, encountering a twilight zone, somewhere beyond".The same idea lies behind another haunting piece called "Twilight Transit".

Multiple imaginings Filling up The maestro's maestro ReprintsThe strength of the idea lies in the 11 leaders it covers and the expertise of the writers assembled to tell their extraordinary stories.