Example sentences of "[verb] been laid out " in BNC.

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1 A formatted screen is a screen which has been laid out like a form with clear headings and data inserted in appropriate places .
2 Trained by the man in form Nigel Twiston-Davies , who had a double at Cheltenham , Captain Dibble has been laid out for the race and has n't run since January when he finished third behind Very Very Ordinary carrying 12 stone at Ascot .
3 It appears to me as though Captain Diobble has been laid out for the race and although there are no such things as a certainty in a National , I feel he may be the right one .
4 The general rule is that one tenant can not enforce covenants contained in another tenant 's lease , but there are a number of exceptions being mainly as follows : ( 1 ) Where a tenant has taken an assignment from the landlord of the benefit of a covenant entered into by a tenant of other premises ; ( 2 ) Where various tenants or their predecessors in title have entered into a mutual deed of covenant ( in which case each can enforce the covenants against the others ) ; ( 3 ) Where the estate has been laid out under a common scheme for building ( known as a building scheme ) and the leases have been taken pursuant to that scheme ; ( 4 ) Where there is a letting scheme , which is similar to a building scheme , but there need be no physical laying out of the estate .
5 One of the gardens in the grounds of Hampton Court Palace has been laid out by prison inmates , who grew the flowers themselves .
6 ZERO SITS ON A swivel office chair and clicks on his Quadra 900 Macintosh PC with 240 megabytes of memory and a keyboard which he has remodelled to conform to his own idea of how a keyboard ‘ should have been laid out in the first place ’ .
7 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 .
8 No agreements had been laid out beforehand .
9 I hardly remember what Mrs Girdlestone looked like , other than that she was plump and elderly , and gave an impression of being prepared for battle ; but I was touched when I saw the tea that had been laid out ready for me , imagining the two ladies conferring about the slices of bought ham , the thin bread-and-butter , and the bought cake .
10 A boiled egg and two slices of buttered bread had been laid out at his place at the table .
11 Even when the moral failings of America 's Nicaraguan and other campaigns had been laid out before him clearly , many times , his Manichaean view of the world was undisturbed .
12 A park-like path had been laid out around the sacred waters , with stepping stones .
13 At the year end the combined membership reached 308 thus exceeding the magic 300 , yet the trading surplus was only £15 , with a mere £130 on capital account , although new greens at the 6th and 8th had been laid out at some cost .
14 This conversation , occurring shortly after the conversation with Patrick recorded above , was taking place at Ludens 's flat , where a scrappy supper had been laid out by Ludens after Gildas 's telephone call .
15 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 .
16 Salisbury had been laid out in the thirteenth century , rather in the fashion of the twentieth century garden cities .
17 ( All this had been laid out by the father of information theory , Claude Shannon , in an influential paper published in the late 1940s ) .
18 He had been working since the 1820s on his theory that ‘ grand geometrical lines ’ had been laid out in ancient times across the country and that these were indicated by old boundaries and markers .
19 It was summer , and he walked around the beautiful gardens alone , admiring the beds of shrub-roses which had been laid out here as they had been in Josephine Bonaparte 's gardens at Malmaison .
20 This strip had been laid out by the estate gardeners into what were known as Walks .
21 The cat had been laid out on the step , like an offering , scarcely recognisable as a grey tabby through the blood that matted its fur .
22 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 .
23 It had been laid out some fifty years before by one of those famous Scottish golfers who had dominated golf in the first couple of decades of the century .
24 The table had been laid out as a T , with Derek Jefferson at the head of the table , flanked by his production director and , as yet , an empty space on his right .
25 Nor had the return invitations been much more successful : often , indeed , to Mrs Crump 's shame , the invitations simply had not been taken up and those for whom the very considerable expense had been laid out did not attend the ball .
26 It seemed inevitable that he would take the bait that had been laid out in the Park for him .
27 Built during a period of architectural optimism , when it was assumed that technology would triumph , it had been laid out in a series of oblong paved courtyards , surrounded by long , low , concrete-faced buildings , remarkable solely for their brutalism .
28 The thought that churches and castles had been laid out to fit some geometrical pattern on the scale suggested seemed farfetched .
29 He walked over to another table where the contents of the undertaker 's pockets had been laid out .
30 The girl 's body had been laid out just as the others , and it had been the work of a moment to discover the tiny stab wound under the soft left breast .
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