lie behind

Even the authoress of the Pageant cannot grasp its symbolism as for her 'another play always lay behind the play she had just written'.

Perhaps, however, Mr MacAskill's moralising is merely rhetorical chaff, thrown up to disguise the realpolitik that lay behind the release.

When they came downstairs, The radio was still on. Dawn had come up, but the sun lay behind a thin cloud cover.

She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me, I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little strategems.

A number of clear objectives lay behind the establishment of the river water quality monitoring programme.

ldquo; We cannot know to what extent sexual urges lay behind Charles's preference for drawing and photographing children in the nude.

Dawn had come up , but the sun lay behind a thin cloud cover.

This lay behind the policy of "big-government conservatism" (a combination of rewards for conservatives and bribes for Democrats).

"The arteries of credit that lay behind the vigour of the past economic boom are now becoming constricted, " says George Magnus at UBS.

These ideas lay behind the April budget plan by Paul Ryan, the Republican chair of the budget committee.

Some foreign trade Company appear some foreign businessman lay behind the form needing situation of goods even.

When global markets wobbled, it was a debt problem in America, not Argentina or Thailand, that lay behind the turmoil.

The clear and rapid stream the detachment had just crossed lay behind, and in front were tilled fields and meadows in shallow valleys.

Yet the debtor-creditor compact that lay behind today's global imbalances has been mutually convenient.

The same political thinking lay behind the design of the single European currency in the 1990s.

I wonder what lay behind the president's speech.

What mystery lay behind the disappearance of the girl?

Squalor and poverty lay behind the city's glittering facade.

Such sentiment probably lay behind yesterday's big bounce for Indian stocks.

But, they often lay behind other mechanism, as cause the container temperature auto-control system out control for long time.

I had thought the same thing. Seeing a mountain, I'd wonder what lay behind it. But on crossing it.

He sought always for the principle that lay behind and beneath.

Modesty makes one progress whereas conceit makes on lay behind.

America reported that different factors lay behind a rise to 2. 7% in its consumer-price index.

They didn't know why he penned his message, nor could they guess the inspiration that lay behind it.

The miasmas, darkness, horror lay behind him.

What lay behind this strange outburst?

Ms Yu denied that political pressure lay behind the station's decision to end Cheng's contract.

What lay behind the savings glut?

What lay behind his smile.

A long time ago seeing a mountain, I'd always wonder what lay behind it. I don't want to know now.

So what lay behind it?

The rifles lay behind the hill waiting for the order to fire.

it lay behind him , a bowl of bitter waters

Hisscowl hinted at the menace that lay behind his carefully modulated voice andcalm demeanor