Sentence examples for presents lay from inspiring English sources

In a corner of the room the television set was still on, tuned to BBC1, and a small pile of unopened Christmas presents lay on the floor.

If a film presents lying stereotypes about African-Americans as historic fact, then they are believed and even further deepen the negative typecast of blacks.

"History of the present" lies in a Three Country Corner between journalism, history, and literature.

But a more apt analogy for the present lies in 1990, not in 1994, and with George Herbert Walker Bush, not with William Jefferson Clinton.

But it is a work whose present lies in its past; which has, unless things change a great deal, no future at all.

Perhaps I'd stop off at the Cat and Mutton on Broadway Market (catandmutton.com) for a nightcap before heading home through quieted streets where past and present lie side by side.

RR Lyrae variables, when present, lie in a special region of the colour-magnitude diagram called the RR Lyrae gap, near the blue end of the horizontal branch in the diagram.

The main advantage of the unifying method presented lies in the fact that it uses, after only some simple additional computations, an arbitrary algorithm for interpolation using planar PH curves also for interpolation using spatial MPH curves.

Although the archaeological value of satellite imagery should not be underplayed, its main strength at present lies in the determination of planar data, such as land use, terrain types and regional geomorphology.

The deficit at present lies in mentoring foreign investigators in proposal and research team development.