Example sentences of "be laid [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other events have been laid on for the old-timers , including a tour on Wednesday of Craigantlet hillclimb , one of the oldest events in the British championship , and an autotest at Ballywalter on Thursday afternoon . |
| 2 | After their 10km walk they were invited to Backnong for a special lunch that had been laid on by the Canal Dignitaries of the town . |
| 3 | Sotheby 's will be hoping that their clients ' wallets have not been laid up for the winter together with their yachts . |
| 4 | He takes yachts from wherever they 've been laid up for the winter to their summer cruising grounds . ’ |
| 5 | For instance , millions have been laid off in the construction industry . |
| 6 | In Lim Poh Choo v Camden and Islington Health Authority [ 1984 ] AC 174 the defendants sought to persuade the House of Lords to exercise their freedom under the Practice Statement [ 1966 ] 1 WLR 1234 , to reverse two rules that had been laid down by the majority of the House of Lords in West & Son Ltd v Shephard [ 1964 ] AC 326 , namely : ( 1 ) that the fact of unconsciousness does not eliminate the actuality of the deprivation of the ordinary experiences and amenities of life ( see the formulation used by Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest at p349 ) ; and ( 2 ) that , if damages are awarded upon a correct basis , it is of no concern to the court to consider any question as to the use that will thereafter be made of the money awarded . |
| 7 | These have now been laid down by the UKCC in its Code of Professional Conduct for the Nurse , Midwife and Health Visitor . |
| 8 | The first question on this appeal is whether the use of section 236 is limited in the way which Hoffmann J. considered had been laid down by the Court of Appeal in Cloverbay [ 1991 ] Ch. 90 . |
| 9 | Eventually , they talked themselves out ; or at least the talk became overlaid by the preparations for the Christmas feast , only two weeks away , and those matters of business that had been laid aside for the Earl 's attention : the visits he had to make , and the people he had to see . |
| 10 | Trained by the man in form Nigel Twiston-Davies , who had a double at Cheltenham , Captain Dibble has been laid out for the race and has n't run since January when he finished third behind Very Very Ordinary carrying 12 stone at Ascot . |
| 11 | It appears to me as though Captain Diobble has been laid out for the race and although there are no such things as a certainty in a National , I feel he may be the right one . |
| 12 | I landed in a heap of cardboard boxes , shredded paper and polystyrene which had evidently been laid out for the purpose and prepared to come up fighting . |
| 13 | She then went on to point out that several pieces of silver had been laid out for the dining room which bore clear remains of polish . |
| 14 | In one of the accompanying photographs it will be noticed that the swingle trees have been laid out on the chassis in front of the boot containing the collapsible bed . |
| 15 | When Ted arrived at the box , the signalman 's corpse had been laid out on the signal frame- and was covered with a sheet , from where he was removed by ambulance to the local hospital . |
| 16 | The cat had been laid out on the step , like an offering , scarcely recognisable as a grey tabby through the blood that matted its fur . |
| 17 | There , even on this windy and showery day of late April , there was a stillness and a warmth , and in the flower-beds that had been laid out among the stretches of lush emerald turf the daffodils and narcissi were at least two weeks ahead of their fellows in the outer world . |
| 18 | It seemed inevitable that he would take the bait that had been laid out in the Park for him . |
| 19 | Where a road which bears all the marks of having been laid out by the enclosure commissioners makes , at longish intervals , a sudden right-angled bend , sometimes two bends in quick succession , one can be pretty certain that though it was planned by the commissioners it follows an even older line from one village to the next , a line which had deviated in the same way around the heads of medieval furlongs . |
| 20 | ( All this had been laid out by the father of information theory , Claude Shannon , in an influential paper published in the late 1940s ) . |
| 21 | This strip had been laid out by the estate gardeners into what were known as Walks . |
| 22 | Even when trap lines are laid down along the hunting paths of a relatively specialized predator like the barn owl , there may be considerable differences in species proportions represented in the two assemblages . |
| 23 | But it is changed too in that it is not so much the details of infant care that are laid down as the principles which should be followed in deciding the details . |
| 24 | The growth characteristics of the bones are laid down at the time when the pattern is specified and the elements are very small and this early specification will control growth for many years ( Chapter 10 ) . |
| 25 | Under English evidential law , specific provisions are laid down for the submission and use of computer records in court . |
| 26 | To reduce the possibility of the lining materials , used for the construction of walls and ceilings , contributing to the initial fire spread within the building , performance standards are laid down for the reaction to fire of the materials used for the exposed surfaces . |
| 27 | Your minimum notice rights are laid down by the Consolidation Act , which in this respect covers almost all UK-based executives , although some classes of employee , including some part-timers , are excluded . |
| 28 | In addition , other legal principles are laid down by the decisions of judges over time , or proclaimed in legislation . |
| 29 | The rules followed are laid down by the Race Walking Association and the International Athletics Federation . |
| 30 | Right after the ground rules are laid down by the station when you go in they say , ‘ What is your title ? ’ and if I 'm interviewed on behalf of the branch P R O I say that , if I 'm an officer of Broadham District Council I say that , so the ground rules are there as to who you 're speaking for when the interview starts . |