Sentence examples for lay the subject from inspiring English sources

Inside a cinder-block coffin lay the subject of my quest, what appeared to be the mummified remains of a woman holding a mummified child.

On July 22, he told his full cabinet that he had "resolved upon this step, and had not called them together to ask their advice," but rather "to lay the subject matter of a proclamation before them".

Therein lies the tricky subject of travel and the different perspectives players from different cities have.

Therein lies the secret subject of Mr. Therrien's obliquely affecting enterprise: the dream, common to utopian Modernism and adult ideas about children, of pure new beginnings.

Upstream to caspase activation lies the apoptosome, the subject of the chapter by Cecconi and Ferraro.

Part of the antipathy lies in the subject matter.

The revolution lies in the subject matter: it is about the convulsive transition from the Middle Ages to the Reformation.

The studies of bombed buildings in his Devastation series are dramatic, but their horror lies in the subject rather than Sutherland's struggle to depict it.

The standard answer to this question is that the difference lies in the subject matter.

Or do bodies, though they are not substances, nonetheless lie on the subject side of the subject/predicate divide, themselves bearers of properties, but not strictly properties of anything else?

It is not clear why parietal activity increases the more the goal lies behind the subject.