Example sentences of "were laid out [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The field at Adswood was sold , and new playing fields were laid out at the front of the School , facing the railway line . |
| 2 | His boots were laid out on a newspaper , and had been scraped and polished . |
| 3 | Leeming 's clothes , consisting of his woollen suit , shirt , underwear , white socks and black shoes , were laid out on a chair . |
| 4 | When David gave the all clear the paragliders were laid out on the hillside forming splashes of startling colour on the green backdrop . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Most churches were laid out on the basis of equilateral triangles and squares , the so-called ‘ ad triangulum ’ and ‘ ad quodraturn ’ methods . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Development began in 1928 , with Barry Parker as consultant ; 10 residential neighbourhoods were laid out with a road layout which followed the American practice of parkways . |
| 10 | He thought that these were all ‘ lines of electrical equipotential ’ resulting from ‘ geophysical anomalies ’ and that ancient monuments , roads and boundaries coincided with them because they were laid out by a priesthood who could detect the lines . |
| 11 | Indeed they often constituted the source of their communities when new villages were laid out by the railway companies beside them . |
| 12 | By linking these limits according to the pattern of the street layout , bearing in mind that roads were laid out in a grid-pattern in the 19th C and in cul-de-sacs , crescents and curves in the 20th C , we could see the growth patterns from the centre of Nottingham outwards . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |