Example sentences of "be laid out [prep] the [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 | 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 . |
| 9 | It seemed inevitable that he would take the bait that had been laid out in the Park for him . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ( All this had been laid out by the father of information theory , Claude Shannon , in an influential paper published in the late 1940s ) . |
| 12 | This strip had been laid out by the estate gardeners into what were known as Walks . |
| 13 | " The way the pots are laid out on the floor upside down , all showing the marks . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Four years ago a couple began work on a garden to be laid out on the site of an old country house . |
| 17 | " 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 … |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The field at Adswood was sold , and new playing fields were laid out at the front of the School , facing the railway line . |
| 20 | When David gave the all clear the paragliders were laid out on the hillside forming splashes of startling colour on the green backdrop . |
| 21 | I sometimes think that if the mutilated bodies of those who have been killed were laid out on the Floor of this Chamber the consequences of the decisions of those who sit here might be more effectively brought home to them . |
| 22 | Most churches were laid out on the basis of equilateral triangles and squares , the so-called ‘ ad triangulum ’ and ‘ ad quodraturn ’ methods . |
| 23 | Eliot 's presents were laid out on the table , and there was champagne and a birthday cake : when Rupert Hart-Davis lit the candles on the cake , Eliot knelt down and blew them out . |
| 24 | At Chalton in Hampshire and Cowdery 's Down near Basingstoke , the buildings were more regularly laid out but not extensive enough to be called villages , while at Catholme in Staffordshire and Thirlings in Northumberland , the earlier settlements had not only been abandoned , but probably forgotten when areas of ridge and furrow were laid out over the top . |
| 25 | Indeed they often constituted the source of their communities when new villages were laid out by the railway companies beside them . |
| 26 | The victims were laid out in the churches to be claimed by relatives , many , reportedly , still showing a spark of life which was ignored in the general rush to clear up . |
| 27 | For the last ten years or so , feminist commentators on social policy have remarked upon two particular features of the British social security system : first , that it is based on clear and consistent views about the nature of marriage and the economic and social relationship between husbands and wives ( Land and Parker , 1978 ; O'Donovan , 1979 ) ; and secondly , despite considerable changes in the position of women in society since the principles of the modern social security system were laid out in the Beveridge Report ( Beveridge , 1942 ) and consolidated in post-war legislation , the system itself and its principles have remained obstinately impervious to change ( Land , 1975 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ There is no dance house in London which is big enough for what we want to do , ’ she said , looking admiringly at the spacious stage area being laid out to the rear of the former Empire Theatre . |
| 29 | The wounded were being laid out against the wall of the barn . |
| 30 | The chief trade was in corn , pork , cattle and agricultural produce , on average £10 000 to £15 000 weekly being laid out in the purchase of grain . |