Sentence examples for lie directly on from inspiring English sources

According to Patrick Natarelli, a county planner, the bike path would lie directly on Westchester Avenue, the service road for I-287, but would probably be separated from traffic by a barrier and outfitted with bridges or tunnels around intersections.

Not much remains of the parliament buildings, but the plains around Pingvellir - a kind of geological no man's land - lie directly on top of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the meeting point of the American and Eurasian continental plates, which each year drift apart by about 1cm, creating gaping fissures and spurting lava flows from deep beneath the Earth's crust.

Unit for samples which lie directly on or very close from the trend line.

An especially noteworthy and apparently novel observation was the proliferation of the lining epithelium in parts of the PED to form additional adluminal sheets of spermiophagic epithelium which did not lie directly on basal laminae.

However, Urry points out, the conclusions rest on a number of assumptions that are "difficult to confirm"—such as whether the measured area does lie directly on top of the black hole rather than off to the side or elsewhere.

They lie directly on the bark.

Bercy, which lies directly on the river on the Right Bank, was until this development one of the "secret cities" of Paris.

Dufton Ghyll Wood lies directly on the Pennine Way in a sheltered valleyside spot.

Ghazni, an ancient mud-walled city with a history going back at least 2,500 years, lies directly on that road.

Serengeti lies directly on a route from Uganda to a Tanzanian port called Tanga, on the Indian Ocean.

Unfortunately, the peak lay directly on the Tibetan border, across which was its most logical line of ascent, and the Chinese had just garrisoned the nearby town of Tingri.