Sentence examples for mainly lay from inspiring English sources

Schools formerly staffed by Benedictines or Dominicans now employ mainly lay teachers.

Under reforms drawn up by the former City minister Lord Myners, the group's board of mainly lay members has been shrunk and the majority of its directors are now businesspeople.

The difference between the two genders mainly lay in their preferences for the variant categories.

The ink mainly lay on the surface of each sheet, with minimal noticeable penetration into the papyrus.

Over the years after definite restorations were emplaced, the medians for both groups mainly lay between 1 and 1.7 mm, the difference mostly being less than 0.5 mm (Fig. 9).

Table 4 indicates that the variations in the marking practice mainly lay in the areas of double-marking constructed-response items (Q4.4a), and checking for intra- and inter-rater reliabilities (Q4.5 and Q4.6).

She is mainly lying down".

The fault, mainly, lies with the Republicans' attempt to repeat the 2004 Swift-boating.

In "Hiroshima, Mon Amour" (1959), two lovers, one French, one Japanese, mainly lie in bed trying to retrieve their memories of the war.

"I'm kind of a real lazy writer - I read and write mainly lying down in bed, a habit I've had since I was a kid".

But Ron Chrisley, director of the Centre for Research in Cognitive Science at the University of Sussex, believes that the problem mainly lies in the fact that everyone has forgotten we are dealing with an illusion.