Example sentences of "were laid out [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Once the railway company and the engineers had decreed where the station was in fact to be located , particularly the larger divisional points , 120–140 miles apart , towns were laid out on the traditional grid-plan .
2 By the time Richard and Murray were called to the headmaster 's study a sheaf of publications headlining the incident were laid out on the large drum table .
3 The words were laid out in a strange manner .
4 The bodies of many of the 167 who died — 37 of them Britons — were laid out in a makeshift mortuary at an army barracks near Katmandu .
5 The gardens were laid out in the eighteenth century by a French landscape gardener for the then owner and founder , the first Conde de Carvalhal .
6 These high moorland stone-walled fields near Malham , West Yorkshire , were laid out in the eighteenth century .
7 They were laid out in the formal style 300 years ago by James II 's gardener , Guillaume Beaumont .
8 The formal gardens were laid out in the 18th century .
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