Example sentences of "lay down [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The regulation of British Gas followed the general principles laid down for BT two years earlier , so it will suffice to concentrate on the latter . |
| 2 | For in one follow-up meeting after another , in Belgrade and Madrid and finally Vienna , the human rights standards laid down at Helsinki were refined and tightened , while Romanian internal policies either stood still or moved in the other direction , that is to say downhill . |
| 3 | These negotiations were unfruitful and the ILP continued to press its Members for acceptance of the conditions for group membership laid down at Birmingham . |
| 4 | This enacts in statutory form the rule laid down in Christie v. Leachinsky ( H. |
| 5 | It would be necessary , if the evidence were to be admitted under that doctrine , that the three conditions laid down in Ladd v. Marshall should be fulfilled . |
| 6 | If this decision were to be upheld , the appellants stand to lose their liberty and , in my judgment , it would not be right that such a result should occur when the evidence is excluded only on the basis of the rather stricter rules laid down in Ladd v. Marshall . |
| 7 | Indeed , the Court of Appeal has indicated that the law laid down in Lonrho has effectively resulted in the unlawful means category no longer existing in any meaningful form ; but until the law is finally clarified by the House of Lords it seems justifiable to continue to speak of two forms of the tort . |
| 8 | The strain of conducting frontier warfare against the French and their Indian allies , without assistance from the south , forced the Massachusetts assembly to ask for help from England in terms that showed a reasonable willingness to co-operate with policy laid down in London . |
| 9 | Somerset 's governmental changes included the legalization of the English language as the official medium , the introduction of English currency , the setting up of a council of advice , and attempts to ameliorate the treatment of slaves in accordance with new policies laid down in London . |
| 10 | The House of Lords upheld the law laid down in West 's case , Lord Scarman stating at p189 : |
| 11 | President Bush had announced to the US Congress on Jan. 15 his decision to release US$42,500,000 in military aid to El Salvador , on the grounds that guerrillas of the FMLN had failed to comply with certain conditions laid down in October 1990 , when the United States decided to withhold the aid [ see p. 37770 ] . |
| 12 | One qualification that should be made to the general formula that Lord Goddard laid down in Hinchcliffe v. Sheldon is that it appears to make a person guilty of obstructing by omission , and the view may be expressed that this is not the law . |
| 13 | Nevertheless the general approach laid down in Rogers v. Parish ( Scarborough ) Ltd. applies equally to second-hand vehicles Business Applications Specialists Ltd. v. Nationwide Credit Corpn . |
| 14 | The judge declined to find that any of the information contained in the blue book bore the stamp of confidentiality within the criteria laid down in Faccenda Chicken , ie it could not be described as a trade secret or anything approximating thereto . |
| 15 | A majority of overseas workers are disqualified from the employment protection rights laid down in UK legislation . |
| 16 | In effect , the principle is the same as that laid down in G. v. G. ( Minors : Custody Appeal ) [ 1985 ] 1 W.L.R. 647 . |
| 17 | The principle laid down in Morgan v. Palmer , 2 B. & C. 729 , Steele v. Williams , 8 Ex. 625 , and adopted in Hooper v. Exeter Corporation , 56 L.J.Q.B. 457 clearly establish that proposition . |
| 18 | Conditions laid down by Haussmann along the lines of those set out by the Monopoly Commission , that the companies divest themselves of certain divisions which , if merged , would be against German interests in the arms industry , were eventually agreed to by both MBB and Daimler . |
| 19 | Most people feel that BBC standards are of the highest order , in keeping with the basic principles laid down by Lord Reith , the BBC 's founder and first Director-General . |
| 20 | The bishops , conceiving of themselves as a body supported by the Holy Spirit in their proclamation of morality and seeing themselves as following the equally and divinely guided line laid down by Pope John-Paul II , were assuming that the opposition to state legislation permitting divorce was of a similar standing and status to the Christian belief that Christian marriage was forever . |
| 21 | In 1752 England at last adopted the calendar laid down by Pope Gregory in 1582 to replace the Julian calendar which , after 16 centuries , was ten days out of true with the natural seasons . |
| 22 | All the tenets of software pricing , laid down by IBM Corp for its mainframes and slavishly copied by the rest of the industry , are being swept away with the erosion of IBM 's dominance . |
| 23 | The principles of training laid down by Stirling differed from those in the Commandos , where a group of volunteers , once recruited , were nursed up to the required standard . |
| 24 | We are here at the beginning of a new phase in the restoration of old customs and the addition of new ones , which in a brief space of time greatly altered the liturgical arrangements laid down by Lanfranc . |
| 25 | A solicitor of an undischarged bankrupt who receives after-acquired property on behalf of his client and transfers it to another agent , even with knowledge that that agent has been instructed to sell , is not liable for conversion at the suit of the trustee in bankruptcy , for the solicitor 's act can be described as ministerial within the test laid down by Blackburn J. Unfortunately , as Blackburn J. himself admitted , it is doubtful how far it goes . |
| 26 | In Latin America other schools of thought have arisen , such as those of Masi and Orthega , but it is yet to be demonstrated that they are any more effective than the guidelines laid down by Hahnemann in the sixth edition of his Organon of Rational Healing . |
| 27 | This in turn had important consequences in the current historical view of the period , in perpetuating the proposition laid down by Wheeler in his Verulamium Report , that the decline of urban life in Britain in the third century was so catastrophic , that it was followed by only a partial and short-lived revival under Constantius Chlorus , and then by a steady decline into the Dark Ages . |
| 28 | The sultan , afraid of Russian support for the Serbs , and shaken by Karadjordje 's military victories , agreed to terms laid down by Serbia in September 1806 . |
| 29 | THE CHOICE of Sardinia — now confirmed as the venue for the opening stages of England 's 1990 World Cup campaign — satisfies the requirement laid down by Britain 's Minister for Sport , Mr Colin Moynihan , that these matches ought to be played ‘ on an island where the problem can be contained . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I have accepted a challenge laid down by Mr Plumpton of Greycoats School that this school will field a tetrathlon team against his own team , good enough to really give them a run for their money , if not to beat them . |