Example sentences of "be laid out [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 The table had been laid out as a T , with Derek Jefferson at the head of the table , flanked by his production director and , as yet , an empty space on his right .
9 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 .
10 Built during a period of architectural optimism , when it was assumed that technology would triumph , it had been laid out in a series of oblong paved courtyards , surrounded by long , low , concrete-faced buildings , remarkable solely for their brutalism .
11 It seemed inevitable that he would take the bait that had been laid out in the Park for him .
12 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 .
13 ( All this had been laid out by the father of information theory , Claude Shannon , in an influential paper published in the late 1940s ) .
14 This strip had been laid out by the estate gardeners into what were known as Walks .
15 A formatted screen is a screen which has been laid out like a form with clear headings and data inserted in appropriate places .
16 These pads have been laid out like a C to C octave on a keyboard , with the lower row of pads as the white notes and the upper row the black ones .
17 These pads have been laid out like a C to C octave on a keyboard , with the lower row of pads as the white notes and the upper row the black ones .
18 " The way the pots are laid out on the floor upside down , all showing the marks .
19 Incidentally , although some models have view-finders which are adjustable to suit either right-eye or left-eye viewing , camcorder design on the whole favours right-handed people in the way that the controls are laid out on the body .
20 The long metal tubes , detonators , detonating cord and homemade explosives are laid out on the ground , whilst the Police and the host of other interested parties take photographs .
21 half spheres of hand-worked copper , are laid out in a line in front of them .
22 In 1862 he received a commission from the town of Preston to design a series of parks , to be laid out as a scheme for relieving unemployment caused by the cotton famine ; Moor Park , Miller Park , and Avenham Park were eventually opened in 1867 .
23 Four years ago a couple began work on a garden to be laid out on the site of an old country house .
24 And the wreckage is being flown to RAF Abingdon in Oxfordshire to be laid out in a hanger like a giant jigsaw puzzle , which could help crash investigators pinpoint the cause .
25 " This Meeting having considered an overture of the Kirk Session of Bowmore … respecting the procuring of Mortcloths for the better and ordinary Classes of people … do hereby agree to Guarrantee to the said Kirk Session , that whatever sum shall be laid out in the purchase of the said Mortcloths , the Princl. sum and interest shall be reapid to the Session , before they are rendered unfit for use …
26 This chord for instance , could only be laid out in the manner indicated , but the blend would hardly be impaired at all owing to the thick reediness of the low clarinets .
27 The field at Adswood was sold , and new playing fields were laid out at the front of the School , facing the railway line .
28 His boots were laid out on a newspaper , and had been scraped and polished .
29 Leeming 's clothes , consisting of his woollen suit , shirt , underwear , white socks and black shoes , were laid out on a chair .
30 When David gave the all clear the paragliders were laid out on the hillside forming splashes of startling colour on the green backdrop .
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