How To Use Lay in In A Sentence

Rob's strengths lay in absorbing the pressure and criticism, and in doing this well he more than proved himself courageous, gutsy and tough.
Again, one file change can put a little red nose next to all of your headers, turn the text red and even make them display in a silly typeface.
The 27 models on display in Washington, supplemented by paintings, drawings, sculpture and medallions, show the products of a rising social structure and new technique.
The woman herself lay in Epsom Cottage Hospital for four days without regaining consciousness.
There had been formerly on the pathways of Dardilly calvaries built by pious forebears; destroyed on order of the revolutionary proconsul of Lyon, the famous Fouché, the crosses lay in the grass. Archive 2008-03-09

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Years of early art, pencil sketches, architectural renderings, magazine covers, newspaper clippings and personal photographs are also on display in the new gallery.
The fans certainly looked like they didn't have a care in the world as they lay in their hundreds sunning themselves on the grassy slopes surrounding the stadium in the hours before the game.
Earlier, in the B turret of the Achilles, there had been a temporary delay in the shell supply, and the gunhouse crews took the ready-use shells from their racks and fed them into the guns. Graf Spee
Which of us would want our lives to lay in ruin while those who are supposed to help are busy fighting over politics, power and property that does not belong to them? National Council of Churches
I record my favourite songs onto blank tapes to play in the car and I normally do them by mood or genre.
Our main and imminent danger lay in the sudden dissolution of the ice, or in the capsizal of the berg. The Honour of the Flag
Marriage documents were signed, felicitations offered, they sat down to a great banquet, and the new bride lay in her husband's lap... Elizabeth Abbott: Is New York's Gay Marriage Truly Historic?
The plan laid out in 1996 to change welfare to workfare recognized and provided for the critical role child care would play in transitioning from government dependency to personal responsibility.
A reed basket of ha'penny nails to go with it lay in the jumble of objects at the far end of the table; something perhaps left behind by the carpenters who had furnished the room. Sick Cycle Carousel
The dust now lay in a thick layer on her piano.
Older and newly arrived Vietnamese Americans often display indirectness and extreme politeness in dealing with others.
Our complete range of carpets is on display in our showroom.
For them, the house's main value lay in its quiet country location.
The link between a specific shoot and a specific root is not clear, but each has a part to play in the overall growth and nourishment of the plant.
Valuable pieces of china were on display in a glass-fronted cabinet.
Their clothes lay in a huddle on the floor.
Another, presumably later, inhumation cemetery lay in and around the southern boundary ditch at its Ryknild Street end.
Each camp featured league play in two divisions, where the campers put into practice what they had learned throughout the week.
But the government's toadyish diplomacy, which overlooked the key issue affecting its relations with North Korea, led to a delay in resolving the abduction cases and resulted in tragic consequences.
Most general breaches that in medal play invoke a two-stroke penalty, such as playing a wrong ball (as Mr. Fowler did in a foursomes match at the Ryder Cup), result in match play in loss of the hole. Can We Have More Match Play?
The philosopher Hannah Arendt concluded that evil lay in the refusal to think.
Why was there a delay in warning the public?
Tournament organisers have brought forward play in the final round by one hour as they attempt to protect what should be a great spectacle from the showery weather which is forecast for later in the day.
The literature says to space joints in feet the same as the thickness of the overlay in inches, but we wanted to try something different.
The same factors that made hardware-centric database machines obsolete in favor of portable database software are now at play in the storage market.
For them, the house's main value lay in its quiet country location.
I lay in the bed with my eyes still closed but my mind was awake listening to the sound of the breeze blowing through the leaves of the coconut tree near my room window.
The choices are his to make, but the forces at play in his life are far beyond his control.
We used to have freedom and play in the fields with traditional toys such as hoops, a top and whip and marbles.
There was not a single low note or phrase that did not display infallible technique or persuasive musicality.
The cheque took 11 days to arrive and the letter blamed human error for the delay in sending a replacement. Times, Sunday Times
I remember not wanting to spend time there, due to the lack of a proper playground area to play in.
Leonardo clearly believed that wealth, patronage, and political power lay in the courts to the east of mainland Europe.
The gilded silver pinhead, styled in the image of a bird of prey, is one of a handful of examples discovered in Britain and will go on display in London.
She consults by fax on production details and quality problems (the display includes color photocopies of works in progress).
Private insurers are charged with implementing and administrating the elements of care that are funded out of the payroll tax, but those elements create a very tight, constrained sandbox for premium-driven short-term insurance to play in. Matthew Yglesias » What It’s All About
For a few days, starting today, an artist's impressions of a new-look town centre will be on display in the Harpur Suite in the town centre and staff will be on hand to discuss the latest ideas for revamping the area.
She lay in about 3 hours before the birth of the baby.
The youngster made a competent fist of it until Arsenal's second, but his team's problems lay in the hinterland behind him.
He often requires performers to play in unconventional ways or use unusual objects as instruments - in the band, players produce sounds from tuned wine glasses, tam-tams and maracas and use metal thimbles on their strings.
Experienced sailors can play in an highly realistic mode where you plot a course using only wind direction and strength. Times, Sunday Times
As last week's electronics action plan highlights, Scottish-based industries will have a role to play in reskilling and upskilling our workers.
Your only comfort lay in the forced reflection, that, real as he looked, the poor caitiff was but imaginary, a bit of painted canvass, whom no delirium tremens, nor so much as a retributive headache, awaited, on the morrow.
This is not to diminish the roles that homophobia played or continues to play in exacerbating the problem.
They were arguing for a delay in introducing the new mower to the public.
You have to just play in the moment. Times, Sunday Times
A housing association has launched an investigation after the death of a pensioner who lay in his home undiscovered for two days.
These include considerations of the completeness of the system's coverage and the delay in making the data available.
It is true that Herbert Butterfield remarked that the trick of writing history lay in ‘the art of abridgement’, but abridgement must be both sensible and defensible.
I still prefer to play in defence.
So will a larger lay input into the most senior appointments make a difference? Times, Sunday Times
But Helen lay in her bed under the roof as silent and immovable as the body of her child.
At a time when most vintage warplanes have retired to a quiet life on display in drafty museums, 65-year-old Fifi is embarking on a new mission: giving rides to paying enthusiasts and once again making the air-show rounds, which occasionally feature a simulated atomic-bomb attack. Owners of the Last B-29 Hope It Doesn
Every morning I lay in bed, heard them row at breakfast and felt sorry for them.
Pratt can play in a number of positions - wing, stand-off, hooker or even loose forward.
Another failure in the system is the delay in patients being referred to a specialist at the first signs of disease. Times, Sunday Times
The contract states that the supplier will charged a penalty if there a delay in delivery.
The poignant note lay in a bed of roses on an ivory white casket that featured two joker playing cards. The Sun
He also agreed he and other writers discussed sexual conduct and foreplay in the writers' room and break room.
The use of the supernatural in the witches, the visions, the ghost, and the apparitions is a key element in making the concept of the play work and in making the play interesting.
The two-hour delay in starting that morning began to take on increasing significance as the sun reached its zenith without disclosing Petersburg on the horizon.
Lilly's pipeline setbacks have included the discontinuation of studies of an experimental Alzheimer's disease drug, and a delay in regulatory approval for diabetes drug Bydureon, which Lilly has co-developed with Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Alkermes Inc. Eli Lilly Profit Jumps 28% on Better Revenue, Margins
He refused to comply with Henry's demand to accept a delay in payment and set about collecting his due by main force.
Outside his work his tastes lay in the direction of botany and bibliomancy, which latter, according to the dictionary, is "Divination performed by selecting passages of Scripture at hazard. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 18, 1917
They may also have dental problems such as a delay in teeth coming through or weak tooth enamel. The Sun
He lay in agony until the doctor arrived.
What role do state institutions play in shaping identities and constructing beliefs about deviance that privilege some groups and pathologize others?
He has to make tough decisions about who is and who isn't going to play in each series of matches.
“Lay in a course to alpha Arietis, warp five, and execute immediately.” Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages
And whether they play in smoky cellar clubs or spacious concert hall, jazz musicians are drawing record crowds.
God, that raised inanimated dust and clay into a living creature by Leviathan
In trying to link the acidity of rainfall to the acidity of soils and water it is essential to understand the role that soils play in releasing chemicals into solution as a result of natural weathering.
I'd like to play in competitions where every game you can play against the best players of the world.
The triumph also meant a shutout victory for goalkeeper Tim Howard, the first American to play in the final.
She lay in a state of suspended animation, waiting for dawnlight, when she would rise.
The paper reported that in Nakuru, more than 350 employees went on a go-slow to protest the delay in paying salary arrears and allowances.
A glance at some of the Court's business cases this term demonstrate the important role it can play in protecting business from improvident regulation. Business Could Use A Friend
Indeed, by the end of last year, a season in which he slumped to a dismal 133rd on the money list, he had lost his right to even play in Europe.
Often in the past Ferguson has spoken of the importance goal difference might one day play in the title shake-up. ESPNsoccernet
Back then there were time-share machines that used punch cards to relay information. The Sun
‘Can I say a big ‘thank you’ for the flyers… they are a roaring success, and are currently being mailshotted to clients and on display in enterprise and community centres.
The locomotive is normally kept on static display in the National Railway Museum.
His goal earned replay in round two. Times, Sunday Times
The bright side of Charley's inheritance lay in the fact that he possessed Samson 's first-class brain. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
When he finally got the chance to play in the starting eleven after David Beckham's infamous booking and injury, Owen found the back of the net in the Champions' League tie with Dynamo Kiev.
She skated, not seeing the other skaters around her as she wove among them, but seeing again the dark pine forest that lay in the lower mountains in the north of Alresh, where she had skated last, just before the spring thaw.
Moreover, it's responsible for inducing a leaguewide abandonment of the most entertaining play in football: the long bomb.
His interior pieces on display include medieval banquet tables, slender candlesticks and chandeliers, and mirrors.
All the clichés of the form are on display in ‘Plague in the Heartland,’ worn down every bit as smooth as the teeth of a longtime meth fiend.
Our complete range of carpets is on display in our showroom.
Some linebackers are available in the draft, but they must be unusually speedy to play in this system.
An integrated - circuit transformer differential relay including secondary and fifth harmonics suppressor is designed.
She fashioned the clay into a pot.
His forte lay in articulating authentic emotion, because most of his fictional writing was structured around intensely felt personal experiences.
In spite of his injury, Ricardo will play in Saturday's match.
And whether they play in smoky cellar clubs or spacious concert hall, jazz musicians are drawing record crowds.
John did this by waving a small quartz crystal pendulum over the resistor, which was either passing current, or not - depending on the position of a simple flip-flop relay inside the circuit box.
She purchased a short-wave radio to listen to ‘Radio Hanoi,’ a Hanoi station that could be picked-up through a relay in Cuba, to collect any possible information.
No queues of mourners lined the halls to say a final farewell to the man hailed as the workers' hero as his body lay in state at the House of Parliament yesterday.
Any compromise with this scourge of majoritarian roguery, or any delay in quashing and quelling it out of existence, would only destroy democracy.
There was consensus on the roles that social constructionism, narrative, and hermeneutics play in postmodern thought and their application to therapy.
He said the reason for the delay in paying the bursaries was a misunderstanding about a decision in 2002 to advertise bursaries to all students in the region. ANC Daily News Briefing
Wil-Dog, who used to play in Macy Gray's band, plays electric bass, upright bass, and guitar.
Tired and discontented housewives found their vague sorrows and vaguer longings were only the result of their "unregenerate" state; the lazy country youths felt that the frustration of their small ambitions lay in their not being Trent's Trust, and Other Stories
Because they are originally a male garment, they often don't have the width at the hem that a woman's hips require, so everyone is treated to the spectacle of a woman from behind, with her t-shirt ricked up over her hips and her bottom on display in a pair of tight jeans or stretch pants. The Long, Modest Gowns Painted by Peter Severin Kroyer (1851-1909)
And since I play in more corporate outings and pro-ams these days, I have witnessed the mood swings and struggles the average player can experience in the course of a round.
She lay in bed, too feverish to sleep.
Otherwise, Tozeur's main business lay in its 40,000 date palms, and the principal activity around the main square was waiting in the shade for time to pass.
The court lay in a large open area behind the castellated facade of the former National Guard armoury, now a high school playground. COMPULSION
Purposeful American play in the middle culminates with a fine strike towards goal by Eddie Johnson.
They gave an abject display in a match that was as entertaining as watching fish being shot in a barrel. Times, Sunday Times
Between twelve and one that Sunday night Katharine lay in bed, not asleep, but in that twilight region where a detached and humorous view of our own lot is possible; or if we must be serious, our seriousness is tempered by the swift oncome of slumber and oblivion. Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf
Bissett's difficulty lay in the time he had been allocated for his paper on the theoretical dimensions of the device.
I'll have to see if roughening the line with clay increases surface tension. Are You Sold on Fluorocarbon?
This is a great example of the part that luck can play in a good photograph. Times, Sunday Times
His work has established the inhibitory role astrocytes can play in preventing central nervous system regeneration.
The love of system, of interconnection, which is perhaps the inmost essence of the intellectual impulse, can find free play in mathematics as nowhere else. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
Nowadays the vocational education of our country grows rapidly, however there is a relative delay in the construction of the curriculum.
Nervous because she was due to play in two chukkas' time, Perdita refused even to acknowledge Daisy's presence.
We can imagine, therefore, that among such folk a settler, of Aeolic origin like Hesiod, who clearly was well acquainted with the Ionian epos, would naturally see that the only outlet for his gifts lay in applying epic poetry to new themes acceptable to his hearers. Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
Another method, used especially for figures, was to pour the clay into a mould.
It's funny how all the sci-fi and fantasy posts combined could not equal the geekiness on display in this one post.
The town lay in ruins after years of bombing.
Basson ascribed the long delay in sorting out the matter to what he described as complicated labour laws. ANC Daily News Briefing
The dog lay in a patch of shade with its tongue hanging out.
In addition to the control, the web pages display information about network settings, operating mode and system status.
The hope, he felt, lay in incipient black militancy, in latent white decency, and, above all, in education. A Man From Mars
Unlike Jean Piaget who saw children's play in primarily cognitive developmental terms, Parten emphasised the idea that learning to play is learning how to relate to others.
Agni araflammed and Mithra monished and Shiva slew as maya-mutras the obluvial waters of our noarchic memory withdrew, windingly goharksome, to some hastyswasty timberman torch-priest, flamenfan, the ward of the wind that lightened the fire that lay in the wood that Jove bolt, at his rude word. Finnegans Wake
In popular books and film then, westerns were a staple: there were a lot of them every year and so they provided a wide, deep genre pool to play in and to invent with.
Hotels in France are regulated and starred according to price, so rates are posted up front, helping to avoid the price-comparison and guessing game you often have to play in the States.
Kwak Yoon-Gy, left, and Lee Jung-Su, center, won a silver medal in the men's 5,000-meter relay in short track speed skating at the Vancouver Olympics. Two South Korean Olympic medalists get 3-year skating ban
Anyone with an interest in the countryside has a role to play in eradicating the disease: from the livestock farmer to the rambler and mountain biker.
Further, in the sociomorphic and anthropomorphic nature of the morphology that is paranoically and schizophrenically projected upon realty, the God class comes to articulate the discourses at play in our notions of society and humanity. Archive 2007-04-01
How much delay in approaching efficiency can be expected from the existence of long-lived buildings on most urban land?
Religion, power, politics, money and sex - key elements of human life - are all on full display in Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize winning novel. Wolf Hall: Summary and book reviews of Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel.
She is a qualified coach and umpire who has helped develop an impressive number of pupils from the school who play in the colts teams at Ealing, Brentham, Perivale and Wembley cricket clubs.
Any further delay in raising a purchase order will make it more likely that this critical phase in the project will not be delivered within your desired time-scales.
The sense of touch is also brought into play in hypnosis; Richet set great value on the so-called mesmeric strokes or passes. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Evander smiled as he watched his little sister leave, taking another sip at the strong brew of ale that lay in front of him.
He can't seem to play in rhythm.
With applications such as Ecobatt if it supports your laptop if not build your own scripts with Microsoft Devcon, Also their is a use friendly services enabler/disabler if you don't want to play in the Microsoft services control panel to much but would still like its performance improvements when not requiring a certain service. Top 10 Battery Hacks, Tips, And Tricks | Lifehacker Australia
The necklace lay in its box on her vanity dresser, among her other jewelry.
The fault lay in the structure of the economy.
Neither his friend's pathetic loneliness, nor the inducements he so lavishly offered, would have tempted Gerrard to leave the capital had it not been that he had ascertained from the Nawab that the _jaghir_ which he had granted to Rukn-ud-din as the Rani's representative lay in the direction in which Charteris was now to be found. The Path to Honour
The vase lay in pieces on the floor.
Gretchen-One split the seconds into a thousand pieces releasing seconds as Einstein split the atom astonishing energy, unfathomable energy she destroyed that day remotely it lay in the distant timeline, she found it destroyed it with atomics with the atomic seconds thus saved mankind forever thus saved what remained of mankind a dry skeleton in an underground bunker deep in the heart of old egypt Three gretchens
Yaz brings back so many good memories, my Grandfather was a rabid Redsox fan, and I spent a few treasured nights watching him play in Fenway park. The real deal (Jack Bog's Blog)
A Christmas window display in the shop of Messrs Tipping and Lee, coal merchants, Brook Street, Ilkley, was burned out through the fusing of an electric fairy light which formed part of the decorations.
There are 310,000,000 reasons to vote, one for every American raised to believe that government has a legitimate role to play in assuring the well-being, safety, and security of its citizens. Richard (RJ) Eskow: Annoying Alan Simpson: The 310,000,001st Reason to Vote
A young boy suffered burns to his chest and abdomen when he was hit by a firework at a home display in York.
Given that Interzone took its name from Burroughs's city, I think its fair to say that while "Jingling Geordie's Hole" lies, as I recall, at the extreme end of its output at that time, a certain "fucked-up" aesthetic was at play in those early days of the magazine, before Cyberpunk, before the New Space Opera, before the New Weird, or Mundane-SF, or even Infernokrusher. Why Do I Infernokrush?
Making any sort of progress is made worse by the gearchange, which is notchy, has too much play in the gearlever and has a throw length last seen on the levers in a Victorian signal box. In Which Dungeekin is Jeremy Clarkson. . .
Henry renounced lay investiture, but prelates were to continue to do homage for their fiefs.
His interest lay in the usefulness of his work, rather than in any personal credit.
What lilies like is a thick mulch of old garden compost for the worms to play in. Times, Sunday Times
the girl lay in her arms lifelessly
With reference to the function that a university should play in moulding national sentiment, for example, I have always had the view, and have never hesitated to declare it in public, that a great university should be a great propaganda of national feeling and national sentiment, and to me that means a propaganda of Imperial sentiment. Education and Empire Unity
At Honolulu these annexationists made speeches abusing the Senate of the United States for the delay in annexing Hawaii; they further said the most grossly insulting things of President Cleveland because he frustrated their plans, and included Secretary Gresham in their condemnation because he failed to recognize them as Americans. Hawaii's Story, by Hawaii's Queen
We spotted Mindbender, a freestanding pencil of solid ice that lay in a pile of chunks at the base of the cliff two days earlier.
The children have gone to play in the park.
On the game-creation side, you can play in ranked or unranked games, and you can specify a disconnection or "did not finish" percentage, letting you manually weed out jerks.
The reserve wicketkeeper on this tour, who is unlikely to play in a Test match this summer. Times, Sunday Times
Quinn had the old version of an improved face, pulled tight so the skin was very, very thin, while the new face was on display in the tent, with the young people, who, before the downturn laid down cash for fillers, botox and dermabrasion. Three Stages of Amazement
Now faces an anxious wait for his place in the summer but the lack of alternatives may play in his favour. Times, Sunday Times
Their leader, Vooper Werribee, counts 130 members who enjoy roleplay in the sands of an Arrakis based in Second Life, taking on the personae of sandworm-riding Fremen, Harkonnen-hating Atreides, and so on. Boing Boing
She lay in bed looking particularly frail.
They play in the water, dunking each other, and then play in the sand until they get bored.
Ten agonizing minutes later, she lay in a shallow pool of her own blood.
It is now on display in the sacrarium of the Catholic parish church of Neu-St Heribert.
Of course he had some principle of guessing; and this lay in mere observation and admeasurement of the astuteness of his opponents. The Purloined Letter
The gameplay involves a lot of tally-hoing across the countryside in search of treasure, monsters, and all manner of mayhem.
A spokesman for the bus drivers and truckers pointed out that the delay in the subsidy comes during the month in which many operating bills are due.
There is further criticism about Kim being allowed to go to work unsupervised, without reference to the High Court, while there were questions over the delay in allowing a public appeal to be issued.
Also, a hyperpolyglot doesn't have much of a role to play in the future of any given language, whereas a multilingual does. Nataly Kelly: Adventures in Hyperpolyglottery: Inside the Mind of Extreme Language Learners
At most handicrafts exhibitions, exotically designed folding fans are invariably among the interesting articles on display in the stalls.
The new jerseys were the blue and white striped jersey, the colours that the teams still play in.
He has arthritis in the shoulder and didn't play in the final three preseason games but is expected to play in the opener.
The credit crunch has encouraged companies to hoard cash and delay investments. Times, Sunday Times
The album's real strengths lay in the exploratory solo songs, which blended old soul vocals, horns, guitars and super-tight drum chops into seamless concoctions that often had the feel of a real band.
The Wallabies say they are here to learn how to win away from home, and to play in different conditions from the sun and warmth they are used to.
I have an open-tuned bouzouki, borrowed from a friend, and a capo, so in theory I can play in any key.
A cat lay in front of the fire.
This time we are no longer brought into touch with the classics or with the scholastic influences, for the play in question is a translation from the Italian, being in fact Ariosto's _Suppositi_, englished by George Gascoigne [109]. John Lyly
Many corporations have long since figured out that a small short term outlay in the present to create environmental sustainability can produce huge cost savings in the future and win scores of PR brownie points at the same time. Philip Slater: A Misconception by Pessimists
The Christmas display in Birmingham is well up to its usual unimpressive standards.
With plug-and-play installation and big, easy to use buttons, the setup is pretty standard.
Poor prognostic indicators include poorly responsive disease, delay in diagnosis and the presence of malignancy.
Lift the front of the bike up so the front wheel is off the ground and check there is not excessive play in the headstock.
Having no servile qualities, no doubt his value lay in his energy and an ability to shout his orders to the chef louder than the next man. THE QUEST FOR K
In response to a delay in the opening of the expiratory valve, 45 patients increased the duration of neural expiratory time.
The US Government's Bureau of Labor says there may be unusual seasonal factors at play in the figures.
Girls and boys play in mixed teams until the age of twelve.
The Contractor shall use constantly his best endeavours to prevent delay in the progress of the Works, howsoever caused, and to prevent the completion of the Works being delayed or further delayed beyond the Completion Date.
Such objections as that the accused, at the time of the arraignment, is undergoing a sentence of a general court-martial, or that owing to the long delay in bringing him to trial he is unable to disprove the charge or to defend himself, or that his accuser was actuated by malice or is a person of bad character, or that he was released from restraint upon the charges are not proper subjects for motion prior to plea, however much they may constitute ground for a continuance or affect the questions of the truth or falsity of the charge or of the measure of punishment. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10214

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