Sentence examples for it lay with from inspiring English sources
Partly, perhaps, it lay with the status traditionally accorded the intelligentsia.
When we spoke, he stressed that it lay with Rahimi, not the Americans, to investigate complaints and make arrests.
The explosion blasted the roof off the car and catapulted the bomber's torso onto the sidewalk, where it lay with one remaining arm outstretched.
Asked to describe his greatest mistake while at Paramount, Mr. Grey at first deflected the question, then said that it lay with his hiring decisions.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, speaking to reporters elsewhere Wednesday, said that the Board of Elections was "not well run," but that the power to fix it lay with Albany, not the city.
Now it lies with the rubble.
No, it lies with the cabinet.
By law it lies with local and state governments.
Again it lies with the ordinary reporter from that perspective".
The responsibility for it lies with elsewhere in the chain.
