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

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1 Alida turned away , to the tea trolley , impeccably laid out with the Worcester china , for she intended to give the impression of perfect comfort , and a good background , of genteel upbringing and attention to detail .
2 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 .
3 The cuffs of his cream silk shirt were still linked , the discreet but expensive tie still knotted at his neck ; his only concession to the sun was that his light blue blazer was carefully laid out along the back seat .
4 " The way the pots are laid out on the floor upside down , all showing the marks .
5 For years afterward , whenever a line was accidentally misaligned ( as happened , for instance , at Sough Tunnel on the Blackburn & bolton in 1847 ) , it was always said to have been ‘ laid out on the Flynn principle . ’
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 Harbour Town , believe it or not , is a rather superb public course , with its 18th laid out alongside the Calibogue Sound , where a lighthouse forms the backdrop to the green — no excuse for missing this one .
8 Tartan carpet using the Cumbernauld Tartan was laid out in the Country Club and its connecting passages .
9 Raymond Campbell 's reasons for joining Linfield as laid out in the Sunday Life are a new challenge , best Stadium , more success , professional approach , £20,000 signing on fee — OOPS !
10 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 ) .
11 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 .
12 The royal crypt was laid out by the architect Kamil Roškot in 1928–35 .
13 The second will aim to cover the implementation of distributed object management , following specs already laid out by the Object Management Group .
14 The second will aim to cover the implementation of distributed object management , following specs already laid out by the Object Management Group .
15 Indeed they often constituted the source of their communities when new villages were laid out by the railway companies beside them .
16 This strip had been laid out by the estate gardeners into what were known as Walks .
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