have its seat in

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The function of speech seems to have its seat in a portion of the left side of the brain, and when that portion is diseased or injured, it affects the speech in many ways.

From The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen by Finlay, Roger Thompson

The Ants, people say, are guided by the sense of smell; and this sense of smell appears to have its seat in the antennae, which we see in continual palpitation.

From The Mason-Bees by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

They therefore can no longer be attributed to radiant matter, and we are led to think that the energy brought into play in this phenomenon must have its seat in the light-bearing ether itself.

From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Poincaré, Lucien

V. be situated, be situate; lie, have its seat in.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

According to the Papuans the soul, which they imagine to have its seat in the blood, continues to exist at the bottom of the sea, and every one who dies goes thither.

From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Frazer, James George, Sir