Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] laid [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The panoramic vista over the Thames to Westminster is breathtaking.As I sit , gazing at the glossy art books carefully laid out before me , I become aware of a clipped , militaristic voice behind me . |
| 2 | It was a large room , an Aladdin 's cave to any would-be falconer , filled with expensive-looking equipment : bags and lures hanging from walls , jesses and leashes all laid out in immaculate order . |
| 3 | The second will aim to cover the implementation of distributed object management , following specs already laid out by the Object Management Group . |
| 4 | The second will aim to cover the implementation of distributed object management , following specs already laid out by the Object Management Group . |
| 5 | The Daily Telegraph and the magazine Tee Topics both wrote ecstatically about the course , the former proclaiming ‘ Henley is one of the most delightfully situated courses ; variety and holes so laid out you might go round a dozen times and never have to play the same shot in succession , not even on the same hole ’ . |
| 6 | A dress can be worn with clumpy men 's shoes ; tracksuit bottoms and loose tops are comfortable , roomy and worn by either sex ; second-hand clothes can be put together with new ones ; and very few people believe the laws that fashion writers once laid down , such as ‘ no horizontal stripes or light colours for bigger women ’ . |
| 7 | Against the far wall , shielded from the worst of the rain , were five bodies neatly laid out . |
| 8 | Hare , a one-time apprentice cricket professional with Notts , a 1985 Lion in New Zealand and Barbarian committee member , picks up the reins reluctantly laid down by Alan Davies after 14 ( unpaid ) years with the club . |
| 9 | Whilst the agreements typically laid down a period of discussion between management and union representatives prior to the introduction of change , there were weaknesses in the terms dealing with provision of information , and early union involvement in decision making , which would have to be altered for effective union influence on the process of change . |
| 10 | For example , you could have the year 's budgets as 12 sheets identically laid out and stored together . |
| 11 | Ministers have already decided that they will have to give cable operators a free choice on the technology they use , provided it meets the basic requirements already laid down by the DoI and endorsed last month by the Eden Committee . |
| 12 | No , the revolution this season is much more fundamental , consigning to the annals and archives of the game all those beloved green-ruled score books with their lines and squares and numbers carefully laid out to register every ball in best pencil . |
| 13 | No , the revolution this season is much more fundamental , consigning to the annals and archives of the game all those beloved green-ruled score books with their lines and squares and numbers carefully laid out to register every ball in best pencil . |
| 14 | Why , then , were only half-a-dozen of these new towns properly laid out on a predetermined plan , and the vast majority left to grow haphazard with narrow , irregular , winding streets , odd little lanes everywhere , and all the other attributes of the picturesque today ? |
| 15 | 2 Pipes The right to free passage and running ( subject to temporary interruption for repair alteration or replacement ) of water sewage gas electricity telephone and other services or supplies to and from the Premises in and through the Pipes that now serve the Premises presently laid in on under or over other parts of the Centre and ( if any ) the Adjoining Property ( in common with the Landlord and other persons having a like right ) The tenant should ensure that the grant of a right to use the service media should extend not only to the service media in existence at the date of the lease but also to those which may be provided during the course of the lease , subject of course to the perpetuity provisions . |
| 16 | But it was a tersely worded compliment , and as he turned to take an olive from the tray of hors-d'oeuvres already laid out on a side-table , her stabbing disappointment told Belinda that he was the person she had really dressed up for today , though what she wanted to prove to him she did n't quite know . |