The phrase "lying adjacent" is correct and can be used in written English.
For example, "The two nations lay adjacent along their shared border."
For me, a novel without a unifying plot is oddly without purpose – its individual stories lying adjacent but unresolved on the page.
Clinical and histopathologic examinations were performed on 22 resected mandibles in which the inferior alveolar nerve was lying adjacent to, or contained within, the tumor.
Maurice Elias, a psychology professor at Rutgers, said that the state's highly educated and affluent population, lying adjacent to the supercharged New York City professional market, contributes to the culture of overachievement that washes over much of New Jersey.
The alluvial plain has a diversity of landforms: its active floodplains are flooded every rainy season and contain changing river channels, while meander floodplains lying adjacent to the active floodplain are marked by relict and abandoned channels.
Other, somewhat rarer findings are uninterrupted proliferation of numerous (>50) ducts, intraluminal necrotic cellular debris, hyperchromatic raisinoid nucleoli, the presence of naked ducts in fat without surrounding pancreatic elements or fibrous tissue, and ducts lying adjacent to arterioles.
The results show that the application of a back pressure leads to reasonable homogeneity within the billet except only in a narrow region of lower hardness lying adjacent to the bottom edge.
