‘... deep underground lies tonnes of contaminated waste’ (Today, 12 September 2008).This is an example of ‘locative inversion’, meaning that the phrase indicating location is inverted with the subject.
When we convert the sentence into the default word order, we see that lies in the original sentence is wrong because the subject is plural: Tonnes of contaminated waste lie deep underground.
Hence: Deep underground lie tonnes of contaminated waste.
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