Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A law signed on March 5 ( given in full in Rossiskaya gazeta of May 6 ) laid down the legal foundations of individual and state security and set up a Security Council responsible for this area , chaired ex officio by the Russian President . |
| 2 | It laid down the general principle of comprehensive education which would have ended selection over a period ( but this was repealed in the 1979 Act ) . |
| 3 | The 1971 White Paper laid down the following requirements for adult training centres and showed the actual provision in 1969 , as shown overleaf . |
| 4 | Lord Atkin laid down the narrow rule in Donoghue v Stevenson [ 1932 ] AC 562 : A manufacturer of products , which he sells in such a form as to show that he intends them to reach the ultimate consumer in the form in which they left him with no reasonable possibility of intermediate examination , and with the knowledge that the absence of reasonable care in the preparation or putting up of the products will result in an injury to the consumer 's life or property , owes a duty to the consumer to take reasonable care . |
| 5 | The big moment came : she opened her hand and laid down the burdened flower by Maman 's plate . |
| 6 | The statutes laid down the maximum size of peasant land allotments . |
| 7 | It also laid down the constitutional right for anyone who passed the Abitur — the German equivalent of A levels — to study at university . |
| 8 | That year the great Earl of Chatham , formerly the elder Pitt , laid down the basic principles of British naval policy : |
| 9 | In 1986 the Court of Appeal laid down the basic rules on competition by ex-employees in Faccenda Chicken Ltd v Fowler 1986 IRLR 69 . |
| 10 | Scare stories about Britain 's beaches have abounded since 1976 when an EEC directive laid down the acceptable limits of sewage pollution , the year Wessex Water set about turning the tide of increasingly dirty beaches . |
| 11 | She choked down the sudden lump in her throat , rejecting a surge of self-pity she had no need for . |
| 12 | Taken by surprise and fear of the other the boy lost his balance and tumbled down the grassy bank towards the stranger but to the boy 's incredulous gaze the figure melted into thin air . |
| 13 | Resting her head wearily against the hard banister rail , she fought down the momentary surge of panic . |
| 14 | She balled her fists and fought down the growing desolation inside her . |
| 15 | By the time we were off the Capes , there was water flying in all directions and glad cries as the Bénéteaus surfed down the glassy fronts of the swells . |
| 16 | Necessary truths passed down the female line over centuries , and what does the accumulated wisdom amount to ? |
| 17 | On every side of them , as they rode down the winding valley of the Suir from Clonmel to Carrick , stretched great rolling hills , rising to the distant mountains — Slievenaman to the north , Comeragh to the south . |
| 18 | As he rode down the narrow goat-trails of the Khyber Pass , Battuta would have known that the Delhi Sultanate was violent frontier country , constantly in a state of war with the pagan Mongols to the north and the infidel Hindus to the south . |
| 19 | Oliver peered down the greasy ladder into the tiny engine room . |
| 20 | Nutty practised the crawl in her bath and the water dripped down the light cord in the dining-room below and collected in the glass bowl-shaped shade . |
| 21 | It seems , although the statement of claim does not set out the matter in any systematic way , that C.M.C. drew down the full loan of £420,000 and subsequently defaulted in its payments to B.M.T. It does not appear precisely how the £420,000 was expended by C.M.C. After obtaining the possession order in respect of the bakery , B.M.T. sold it for about £183,000 . |
| 22 | As we glissaded down the final snows to the hut , the summit of Mt Blanc was burnished by the setting sun and the Flammes de Pierre were flickering , true to their name . |
| 23 | They wandered down the cobbled streets to the Riviera , across the Villa Comunale and then over Via Caracciolo to the balustrade that separated them from the boulders that sat on the edge of the sea . |
| 24 | Scott wandered down the short set of steps to Carol 's door , noticing that there was a pint of milk on the step . |
| 25 | He came across and dabbed up the spilt coffee with a dirty dishcloth and a flourish . |
| 26 | Wolsey 's clerks drew up the necessary letters of accreditation , warrants and bills for the exchequer . |
| 27 | After consultation with the Leeds Permanent Building Society , the EOC drew up the following recommendations in respect of mobility : |
| 28 | In the words of Luther 's great disciple Melanchthon , it was ‘ a Parisian sophist , a blind Scot ’ , the Catholic Robert Wauchope , who drew up the Tridentine decree on justification , and it was Melanchthon 's Scottish friends Alexander Alesius and John McAlpine who , as professors of theology , spread the Protestant gospel at Frankfurt and Copenhagen . |
| 29 | Certainly some people , particularly those who drew up the initial list of candidates , tried to gain advantage by appealing to tribal loyalties , but that led them to include candidates who were not Zuwaya , or not Magharba , in the hope of widening their mass appeal . |
| 30 | I see from today 's Financial Times that a leading member of the board of the Bundesbank said yesterday that the Maastricht summit was a failure and might prove to be ’ a suicidal failure ’ — serious words from a key member of the body that drew up the detailed proposals for European economic and monetary union . |