Underlie Sentence Examples

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  • Others maintain that at any rate two sources underlie Acts i.-xii., or even i.-xv.

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  • At all events, two quite distinct views seem to underlie the opening books of the Old Testament.

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  • In the river-beds, however, and at some distance from the sea, older strata and eruptive rocks underlie the alluvium.

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  • Along the coastal margins they underlie the newer formations and appear in the deep valleys and kloofs wherever denudation has laid them bare.

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  • Lower Cainozoic lacustrine beds with fossil plants, of the same age as those which underlie the older basalts of Victoria, occur in the valleys of northern Tasmania.

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  • A better understanding of the factors that underlie variable penetrance in mutation carriers is needed to augment our ability to counsel individual women.

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  • Nino's story reads like that of such a female missionary, and something similar must underlie the story of her Armenian companions.

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  • The fifth temple, that of Venus Pompeiana, lay to the west of the basilica; traces of two earlier periods underlie the extant temple, which was in progress of rebuilding at the time of the eruption.

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  • During and since the deposition of the rocks that underlie them the tract has been the scene of repeated terrestrial disturbances.

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  • We shall first give the general principles which underlie the methods for the dry extraction of copper, and then proceed to a more detailed discussion of the plant used.

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  • The plain usually forms a distinct border along the landward margins of the uplands of more ancient rock, though to the east of the Cornwall-Devon peninsula it is not very clear, and its continuity in other places is broken by inliers of the more ancient rocks, which everywhere underlie it.

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  • While it is true that the instruments and methods of research in these two branches are quite different in their details, there is so much in common in the fundamental principles which underlie their application, that it is unprofitable to consider them as completely distinct sciences.

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  • Its groups include the Dakota formation, characterized by a very peculiar rusty sandstone, and the Benton, both of which are rather widely accessible and heavy; the Niobrara; the Pierre shales, which apparently underlie about three-quarters of the state in a deep and heavy bed; and, in the extreme west, the Laramie.

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  • Significantly, the same objections underlie Nicolaus Copernicus ' reformation of Ptolemaic astronomy.

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  • Why do so many people believe in the paranormal and what might underlie ostensibly paranormal experiences if in fact paranormal forces do not exist?

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  • Three had potentially fatal asystole, and the authors postulate that asystole might underlie SUDEP in some patients.

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  • A major focus of the research at Strangeways is the identification of genetic variants that underlie susceptibility to common disease.

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  • It thus stresses the link between theory and practice, and examines the often tacit assumptions which underlie translation practice.

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  • All basement reservoirs underlie a regional unconformity and almost all lie on an uplift or high.

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  • But, how are they to gain access to the thinking processes that underlie the professional practice they observe?

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  • The coal deposits underlie about 17,000 sq.

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  • They form the northern extremity of the great Appalachian coal-field and underlie an area of 15,000 sq.

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  • Here Christian imageworship borders on the beliefs which underlie sympathetic magic (see Image Worship).

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  • Bishop Brooks taught me no special creed or dogma; but he impressed upon my mind two great ideas--the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, and made me feel that these truths underlie all creeds and forms of worship.

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  • Did you ever think what those sleepers are that underlie the railroad?

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  • What genes underlie susceptibility in the UK and worldwide?

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  • Other types of attractor appear to underlie natural phenomena.

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  • Vulcans often claim that they have no emotions, being creatures of pure rationality, but that is, of course, impossible, rational thought being an evolutionary offshoot of emotions, which underlie thought.

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  • A very peculiar feature of Cuba is the abundance of caverns in the limestone deposits that underlie much of the island's surface.

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  • The plexus of nerve-fibrils which underlie the ectoderm and are in places gathered up into nerves, and the great development of connective tissue, are worthy of notice.

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  • The lophophore is supplied by yet a third nerve, the under arm-nerve, which is less clearly defined than the others, and resembles a moderate aggregation of the nerve fibrils, which seem everywhere to underlie the ectoderm, and which in a few cases are gathered up into nerves.

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  • But besides the vocation he had freely selected and assiduously laboured to fulfil, two more external influences helped to shape Martineau's mind and define his problem and his work; the awakening of English thought to the problems which underlie both philosophy and religion, and the new and higher opportunities offered for their discussion in the periodical press.

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  • The " Logic " of Hegel is merely the continuation of Kant's " Deduction " of the categories and ideas of the reason which has generally been recognized as the soberest of attempts to set forth the presuppositions which underlie all experience.

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  • Similarly the hypothenar muscles for the little finger underlie the three ulnar marginal mountains, the sizes of which depend on their development and on the prominence of the pisiform bone.

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  • Barton, Worcester and Tennant, considers this to be parallel to the story which may underlie the account of the failure of the beasts, and the success of the woman Eve, as a "help-meet" for Adam.

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  • It has contributed nothing whatsoever to our knowledge of any Hebrew individual of this period,' and consequently what elements of history underlie the stories in Genesis, in so far as they relate to the Hebrew patriarchs, must still be determined, if at all, by a critical study of the Old Testament.

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  • And if in the old sources it is only the first beginnings of this development that can be traced, we must assume that at a later These ideas may possibly be traced still further back, and perhaps even underlie St Paul's exposition in Col.

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  • The non-sensitiveness of a cell to a toxic body when brought into immediate relationship cannot, however, be explained further than by saying that the disintegrative changes which underlie symptoms of poisoning are not brought about.

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  • While hoping for a better fate in their next birth, the poor turned for succour and advice in this to the aid of astrology, witchcraft and animism - a belief in which seems to underlie all 1 Note on the Date of the Buddha.

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  • Bunter, Permian, and Coal Measure strata have been revealed by boring to underlie the Keuper near Haxey.

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  • The Mount Lyell schists which underlie the West Coast Range, and the quartzites of Port Davey on the western coast, have also been regarded as Archean.

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  • This lignite and the accompanying leaf-bearing clays underlie and are apparently older than the strata with Newer Pliocene mammals and mollusca.

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  • Or does the same, blind inattention to the concrete presence of our fellows underlie both the gospel and the warfare?

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  • Undoubtedly, in this case, what is true for one is truer still for a thousand, as a large house is not proportionally more expensive than a small one, since one roof may cover, one cellar underlie, and one wall separate several apartments.

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  • The series invites Jewish, Christian and Islamic theologians back to the word, recovering modes of scriptural reasoning that underlie modernist reasoning.

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  • The prevailing formations appear to be granites which are veined with white quartz, and underlie old sedimentary brown sandstone and limestone formations.

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  • A certain animus against Joab's family thus seems to underlie some of the popular narratives of the life of David (q.v.).

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  • On the other hand, he has no claim to rank as a critical historian; he has no conception of the philosophy of history, no insight into the real causes that underlie political changes, no power of penetrating below the surface, or even of grasping the real interconnexion of the events which he describes.

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  • To the south of the district in southern Westland, where the Alps have passed out to sea, the Archeans become more extensive; for they spread eastward and underlie the whole of the dissected tableland of Otago.

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  • The anterior margin of each valve except the first is provided with two projections called sutural laminae which underlie the posterior margin of the preceding valve.

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  • This chalk appears to underlie nearly the whole basaltic plateaus, appearing as a fringe round them, and also in an inlier at Templepatrick.

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  • The skin and hair of the throughbred are finer, and the veins which underlie the skin are larger and more prominent than in other horses.

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  • Where now firm open fields stretch from the village to the woods, it then ran through a maple swamp on a foundation of logs, the remnants of which, doubtless, still underlie the present dusty highway, from the Stratton, now the Alms-House Farm, to Brister's Hill.

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  • He cuts and saws the solid pond, unroofs the house of fishes, and carts off their very element and air, held fast by chains and stakes like corded wood, through the favoring winter air, to wintry cellars, to underlie the summer there.

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  • Similar osteoderms underlie the scales of the body and tail.

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  • The Silurian greywackes and shales that underlie almost the whole of the Uplands weather generally into small angular debris, and at a tolerably uniform rate of disintegration.

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  • I decided that there was no reason, except my deplorable ignorance of the great facts that underlie our physical existence.

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  • For it was Dr. Bell who first saw the principles that underlie Miss Sullivan's method, and explained the process by which Helen Keller absorbed language from books.

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  • The great coal-field on the south is a perfect example of a synclinal basin, the Millstone Grit and Carboniferous Limestone which underlie the Coal Measures appearing all round the margin.

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  • These sciences underlie the whole development of scientific history.

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