Sentence examples for rather lay from inspiring English sources

The surprises rather lay in the parts of the legal aid budget that he had decided to protect.

In the 1990s Truman Bewley of Yale University interviewed hundreds of employers and discovered that, faced with a slump in demand, they would rather lay some workers off than cut the pay or hours of everybody.

Essex endured a taxing day of leather-chasing here, but for Ravi Bopara there were agonies of a more personal nature to contend with as he sat, or rather lay flat, in the St Lawrence dressing rooms.

They do not make a nest, but rather lay one egg at a time and carry it around on their feet covered with a flap of abdominal skin, called a brood patch.

But it is only now that this is being translated into courses and research that do not disguise themselves as something else, but rather lay proud claim to comics studies as a discipline.

It is not expected to lead to any new initiative but rather lay down a marker on a longstanding US and international approach to the region before the US president-elect, whose commitment to such a solution is in doubt, assumes office.

And then there's the part that would rather lie on the floor with the dog.

(Most kids would indeed rather lie on the sofa shooting zombies than take out the rubbish).

Or would you rather lie blissfully ignorant on warm but contaminated sand?

Having made wild claims about some amazing new phenomenon, some researchers would rather lie than admit they were wrong.

The problem of plastic marine pollution is not due to the nature of the material itself, but rather lies in the ways we have chosen to use it.