Sentence examples for of material lay from inspiring English sources

A mass of material lay strewn about, looking somewhat less grandiose than the term antiquities implies.

I grew up in the West surrounded by an unfinished landscape: piles of material lay waiting, buildings half finished and forgotten.

But Philae, equipped with a drill that can sample more than 20 centimeters deep, has the potential to reveal the nature of material lying underneath the crust where ice, dust, and organic molecules have been less altered by sunlight and outgassing.

But a hall is finally rising, and while work was behind schedule — much of the space looked like a raw construction site, with a forest of scaffolding filling the interior and pallets of materials lying about during a visit in early April — orchestra and Quebec government officials promise it will be ready for inaugural concerts in September.

Machinery, long pipes and a mix of materials lie around, as do finished explosives, some defused and some still deadly.

Beyond it, some sheltered beech trees retained a pale selection of leaves from the past summer, while the bulk of fallen material lay as a damp, fermenting mulch on the soil below.

They found that the activation energy and the logarithm of the conductivity were both linear functions of F1/3, the activation energy dropping to zero when 45% of the material lies within the accessible volume.

Perhaps the richest deposit of historical material lies in the audiovisual collection.

For the true power of this material lies not so much in what it shows -- we've seen film footage, fictional and real, of airplane crashes and imploding buildings before -- than in what we do not actually see: the death, despair and suffering that took place beyond our sight in those planes and buildings.

One sinister finding by investigators is that the fire seems to have started in two places and that there was a lot of combustible material lying about.No one rules out arson by someone or other, but neither is misfortune discounted, as the result, say, of an electrical fault or faults.

An interesting feature of the material lies in the detectable change in resistance-strain sensitivity when strain hardening initiates.