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 . |