Sentence examples for which it lay from inspiring English sources

When struck with a hammer, the bone had remained intact while the anvil upon which it lay had been shattered.

In the last year of his life, Caesar developed personal control of the coinage to a point at which it lay ready to hand for Augustus to use later as a fully imperial instrument.

An early example is Johannes Volkelt (1905, 11), who asserts that the statue of Zeus in Otricoli was a work of art throughout the many centuries during which it lay buried and unobserved.

Second, the result maintained when performing a SNP-centered analysis in which each SNP was assigned the ϕ value corresponding to the gene in which it lay (ρ = 0.155, p < 10-7, n = 3,710).

Although Choquequirao is more spread out than Machu Picchu, and therefore less photogenic, the promontory on which it lies reaches its zenith with a ceremonial hill behind the plaza, a smaller version of the rugged mountain seen in every photograph of Machu Picchu.

The landlocked mountainous region of Nagorno-Karabakh is the subject of an unresolved dispute between Azerbaijan, in which it lies, and its ethnic Armenian majority, backed by neighbouring Armenia.

There are no immediate plans to excavate the football-field-size tomb itself, but radar studies and analysis of soil samples from the mound under which it lies give "The First Emperor" its big finish.

The nearest hamlet is Foul Rift, which gets its name from the fierce rapids of the Delaware on which it lies.

The district in which it lies has 1.5m people.

"Stuffed Dog" in particular, surrounded by almost invisible graffiti submerged beneath the inky carpet on which it lies, is more disquieting than nostalgic.

On the other side is a stately old home that doesn't quite fit into the shabby neighbourhood – or into the space in which it lies.