Example sentences of "lay [adv prt] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Companies were also bound to match wages and conditions laid down in federal ( and sometimes state ) awards for their industry . |
| 2 | It is uncertain whether the principle laid down in Regal ( Hastings ) covers this situation . |
| 3 | Our regiment had a very fine cellar , laid down in Victorian days , and it had to be abandoned . |
| 4 | During the years of South Africa 's isolation from the world community and its suspension from the ILO , hybrid labour legislation was passed by the South African parliament which may or may not conform to the minimum standards for the protection of workers laid down in various ILO conventions . |
| 5 | Our understanding of the vertical ( as opposed to the horizontal ) movements of the lithosphere during continental rupture is largely derived from the interpretation of the sediments laid down in passive margin basins . |
| 6 | The importance of such rights , and the feeling that they were fundamental to the workings of society , is reflected in the fact that when one ruler ceded territory to another it was usually defined in terms of jurisdictions and local administrative divisions ( on the French frontiers , for example , baillages , prévotés , sénéchaussées or communes ) and not , as would now be the case , in those of lines laid down in precise geographical terms and illustrated by a map . |
| 7 | If people accept that they are governed not only by explicit rules laid down in past political decisions but by whatever other standards flow from the principles these decisions assume , then the set of recognized public standards can expand and contract organically , as people become more sophisticated in sensing and exploring what these principles require in new circumstances , without the need for detailed legislation or adjudication on each possible point of conflict . |
| 8 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what action he takes to enforce procedures laid down in national health service circular No. 1975 ( GEN ) 46 . |
| 9 | Cuttings were made to ease the original gradients , causeways laid down in difficult places , and the roadway widened . |
| 10 | The master embalmer had seven bodies laid out in various stages of the seventy-day preparation for eternity , and the open-ended hall where he worked was crowded . |
| 11 | The columns are headed by brief statements of key activities in that stage of the project , laid out in logical order . |
| 12 | This was a frankly proletarian town , laid out in regular rows of plain brick houses . |
| 13 | Later , from a nearby height Wolverine Squad spied many other corpses of Karkazon natives laid out in sinister rune patterns along one dismal lacquered boulevard — spoor of the Boars , now being exorcised with burning incense and sprinkled acid by some raving Sagramoso cultist guarded by skaters . |
| 14 | ‘ Hitherto , their duties have been laid down in professional guidance . |
| 15 | The President , Levon Ter Petrosyan , said that the republic would not observe the five-year transitional period as laid down in Soviet legislation on secession . |
| 16 | The underlying Lower Limestone Shale is also interpreted as a shallow water sequence , but some beds are believed to have been laid down in poorly aerated conditions ( George 1958 ) and may therefore contain source material . |
| 17 | The existence of a firm strategy for continuing education may , in theory , preclude the need for re-entry programmes as they exist at present , and it is the job of the members of each National Board to align continuing education needs with the UKCC 's own policies regarding the maintenance and improvement of professional standards as laid down in current legislation . |
| 18 | Reaffirms the objectives of Green Belt policies and related development control policies as laid down in previous Circulars . |
| 19 | Consequently , most such factories employed free labourers , as well as slaves , who could be laid off in slack periods . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They were deliberately planned with their streets laid out in orthogonal grid-systems like the great cities of Hellenistic times , such as Alexandria and Antioch . |
| 22 | He had been working since the 1820s on his theory that ‘ grand geometrical lines ’ had been laid out in ancient times across the country and that these were indicated by old boundaries and markers . |
| 23 | On such days the Lombardy Plain is also laid out in great detail . |
| 24 | The principal-agent approach to the analysis of firm behaviour is laid out in Strong and Waterson ( 1987 ) , and the basic theoretical results of agency theory are discussed in Arrow ( 1984 ) and Shavell ( 1979 ) . |
| 25 | The Knossian roads were laid out in straight sections , but without any overall geometric plan . |
| 26 | Maltwood believed that the figures were laid out in prehistoric times as a form of temple or sanctuary , using the natural forms of the landscape with a minimum of artificial alteration . |
| 27 | The rows and rows of containers , stacked three , four and five high , were laid out in neat uniformity , forming a maze of passageways . |
| 28 | The words of Chris Bott , anarchist or , more politely , ‘ libertarian left ’ , as laid out in giant 36-point type and printed in lurid blue on a red background on the cover of Ink , one of the crop of underground papers that sprang up at the end of the 1960s . |
| 29 | The New Town , the central part of which was built mainly in the second half of the eighteenth century , is more spaciously laid out in classical streets and squares — ‘ not only gay and airy ’ , said Robert Louis Stevenson , ‘ but highly picturesque ’ . |
| 30 | On these the lead type was laid out in arranged columns by Bill Adair the foreman . |