Example sentences of "lay out for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You appear to be in some sort of surreal shopping mall , with the world 's TV laid out for purchase : you almost feel like you should have a shopping trolley , to wheel up and down the aisles .
2 The components involved , laid out for inspection .
3 Where the main dale leaves the National Park and opens out into the flatter farmland of the old North Riding is Wensley itself , now a tiny village compared to its bigger neighbour of Leyburn , a busy typical northern Dales town with its wide main street and broad pavements laid out for market stalls .
4 Bob picked up one of the knives laid out for dinner and scored along the grain of the table with it .
5 New sleepers laid out for loco road at Tywyn Wharf .
6 If , for instance , the chord were laid out for oboes and clarinets thus the resulting blend would be less satisfactory than this : in which the reedy oboe and the smoother clarinet tone are inextricably intermingled .
7 Also , the other reason that I did not leave it in the centre of the airfield was that the flares , the gooseneck flares ( a device with paraffin and a sort of rough wick ) , were laid out for night flying .
8 She went with a young lady … to a small office where the documents were laid out for signing .
9 The normal business life of the town continued right up to the last moment and in some houses food was laid out for meals that were never eaten .
10 As before the table was laid out for tea , but instead of bread and butter there were toasted muffins oozing butter .
11 But the image would n't come , it was softly blotted out in this warm , rosy room with drawers and cupboards being gently closed upon the last of her possessions and Lyddy asking her which dress she wanted laid out for dinner .
12 At times it is even possible to lay out for examination the intense post-liminal rites and ceremonies of reincorporation required by the police institution as it seeks to draw the marginal mover back into the fold .
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