Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] laid [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 These houses are laid out in terraces on the hillside with porticoes and colonnaded peristyles .
2 Fourteen steam hammers are laid down , five of 15cwt each , one 20cwt , six 5cwt , one 2½cwt and one 200lbs .
3 If we ask why many of our towns and cities are laid out as they are we find the answer is buried in history .
4 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 .
5 Complex rules are laid down regarding types of note ( ie for what proposes ) , the responsibilities of banks , endorsement , and dishonour .
6 They are largely caused by a lack of knowledge or understanding in chambers where no ground rules are laid down .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 The next set of features that are actually mentioned erm relate to the way in which paragraphs are laid out .
14 The words were laid out in a strange manner .
15 The employer 's action failed , but the following guidelines were laid down : 1 .
16 Large squares were laid out in many city centres .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 An almost finished game of snakes and ladders was laid out amongst top secret briefing papers .
21 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 .
22 On the sacristy press a set of vestments was laid out .
23 The finds are laid out on work surfaces and are sorted into groups of similar material , either in a single stage if there are very few , or in batches .
24 In order to achieve this , almost seven million egg cell precursors are laid down in the female fetus .
25 The gardens are laid out in the most elegant manner and both the paintings and furniture are surprisingly fine .
26 Only when the cells leave the zone do some begin to differentiate into cartilage ; and , as just stated , the cartilage elements are laid down in a proximo-distal sequence — first humerus , then radius and ulna , and only then wrist , and finally hand .
27 The growth characteristics of the bones are laid down at the time when the pattern is specified and the elements are very small and this early specification will control growth for many years ( Chapter 10 ) .
28 Steady wind in an open area is what you should be seeking long before the lines are laid out .
29 Even when trap lines are laid down along the hunting paths of a relatively specialized predator like the barn owl , there may be considerable differences in species proportions represented in the two assemblages .
30 He assured Benn that the French were not going to let themselves be tied by COCOM : ‘ Frankly , the French do promise integrated circuits and the dates and deliveries are laid down . ’
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