Example sentences of "[noun] [be] laid [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The range of available options — particularly in public libraries — means that every library system needs a book provision policy , in which the priorities for provision are laid down . |
| 2 | The foundations of the White Tower of Hoeth are laid down and the longest period of continual peace in Elf history begins . |
| 3 | These houses are laid out in terraces on the hillside with porticoes and colonnaded peristyles . |
| 4 | Fourteen steam hammers are laid down , five of 15cwt each , one 20cwt , six 5cwt , one 2½cwt and one 200lbs . |
| 5 | If we ask why many of our towns and cities are laid out as they are we find the answer is buried in history . |
| 6 | First , simple diffusion of chemicals could provide the signals ; secondly , if patterns are laid down in such small fields , their later development may largely be due to programmed growth . |
| 7 | Complex rules are laid down regarding types of note ( ie for what proposes ) , the responsibilities of banks , endorsement , and dishonour . |
| 8 | They are largely caused by a lack of knowledge or understanding in chambers where no ground rules are laid down . |
| 9 | Well I think a lot of women are looking for an equal partnership really erm where the rules are laid down and they know where they stand , you know . |
| 10 | Right after the ground rules are laid down by the station when you go in they say , ‘ What is your title ? ’ and if I 'm interviewed on behalf of the branch P R O I say that , if I 'm an officer of Broadham District Council I say that , so the ground rules are there as to who you 're speaking for when the interview starts . |
| 11 | If these new coppices are laid out with wide strips at even intervals , Free Range Egg production will give an extra crop and a profit , that is if the farmer can find his/her own retail market for the eggs . |
| 12 | Different types of shops are laid out in different ways — you would n't expect an expensive dress shop to be laid out in the same way as a supermarket , for example . |
| 13 | But I could not row more grain without causing an even worse grazing crisis from April to July when three acres are laid up for hay . |
| 14 | Norwegian Jacquard : This stitch design option will allow you to knit many different colours in a design style that is best described as based on the traditional Scandinavian type of pattern , where small designs are laid on to a multi-coloured striped background . |
| 15 | The next set of features that are actually mentioned erm relate to the way in which paragraphs are laid out . |
| 16 | The words were laid out in a strange manner . |
| 17 | The employer 's action failed , but the following guidelines were laid down : 1 . |
| 18 | Large squares were laid out in many city centres . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | During that same year , the Peace Conference assembled and the Versailles Treaty of Peace was signed , under which the principles of a League of Nations were laid down . |
| 21 | It is only fair to put on record , so that the student of war today can trace Trenchard 's early thinking , by recalling that the Harris war aircraft were laid down in the mid-thirties . |
| 22 | In order to plan the route of the path , you should first make a plan of the whole garden , as a badly positioned path can spoil the appearance of the garden , however carefully the ground on either side is laid out . |
| 23 | It had been thought that only the penalty was prescribed by statute , just as the penalty for murder is laid down by Parliament . |
| 24 | Normally kept in the chest of drawers behind the bed , the lace christening robe and petticoat embroidered with pearls is laid out on nanny 's bedcover . |
| 25 | I do not think that any hard and fast rule is laid down in Chamberlain 's case . |
| 26 | The definition of refugee is laid down in the United Nations convention . |
| 27 | An almost finished game of snakes and ladders was laid out amongst top secret briefing papers . |
| 28 | In 1749 for the first time a single system of tactics was laid down for the entire army , while in 1765 the Hofkriegsrath assumed the power to appoint to all ranks above that of captain and from 1776 an organized State military transport corps began to be built up . |
| 29 | The High Sheriff of Cornwall , Sir John Trelawney , opened an ornamental gate with a silver key and a free tea was laid on for the children of the surrounding parishes . |
| 30 | The parkland was laid out with a smooth lawn . |