1.   A blank and empty future lay before me.

2.   Does the future lie with diversified financial conglomerates or with highly specialized financial institutions?

3.   He had been milling in a modest way at Grove Mill near Painswick, but presumably saw where the future lay.

4.   The future of machines lies in the tangled weeds underfoot.

5.   A great future lies ahead for this talented twenty-three-year-old girl.

6.   Let us hope our future lies in peace, not war.

7.   Whether the future lies before us or behind.

8.   There was never any doubt where his future lay.

9.   He argued the future for transport lies in a marriage of private and public money.

10.   And the president knows, according to his advisers, that the Democratic future lies in the political center.