Sentence examples for it can lie from inspiring English sources

A firm with more money and promise than performance and there were plenty of those in the late 1990s has a limited range of choices: it can return the money; it can be more realistic about the promise; or it can lie about its performance.A number of venture-capital firms are now trying to build up their expertise to give their investments a better chance.

Hence, the banana industry, under the banner of the Australian Banana Growers Council (ABGC), is considering the unprecedented step of buying the farm just so it can lie undisturbed.

Mr. De Niro's scowl has become the kind of cultural shorthand that generally presages entry into the Smithsonian, where it can lie in state next to the Fonz's jacket, Archie Bunker's chair and Cher's hair.

Robert De Niro's scowl has entered the cultural shorthand that generally presages entry into the Smithsonian, where it can lie in state next to the Fonz's jacket, Archie Bunker's chair and Cher's hair.

Mr. De Niro's scowl has become the kind of cultural short-hand that generally presages entry into the Smithsonian, where it can lie in state next to the Fonz's jacket, Archie Bunker's chair and Cher's hair.

Part of the difficulty in eradicating tuberculosis is that the airborne bacteria that cause it can lie inactive in a person's lungs for years, with the host entirely unaware of the infection.

The weevil's reproductive success depends upon it being able to excavate a hole deep enough that it can lay its eggs close to the seeds of its host-plant which lie deep within the defensive pericarp.

In the past few years, the Tory-run council has taken almost every public service it can lay its hands on – and outsourced it.

Subscribers to television porn channels will also be hit with an extra 10% in value-added tax.Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right government needs all the money it can lay its hands on.

Russia, for its part, vetoed America's bid to impose sanctions on Myanmar last year, and Thailand buys Myanmar's natural gas.China is not just cultivating these countries so that it can lay its hands on their natural resources.

Once the cell has reached its final size, it can lay down secondary wall layers, the composition and architecture of which are optimized to exert specific functions in different cell types (Figure 1E G).