Example sentences of "laid out on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The body is laid out on the back with hands at the side , the eyes are closed ( coins or cotton wool on the eyelids will help ) the jaw supported by a pillow , and all the natural outlets of the body plugged with cotton wool . |
| 2 | The upstairs lighting circuit is laid out on the floor of the loft , taking care not to put it under any loft insulation ( where it could overheat ) , and not to put junction boxes where they could be damaged by careless feet . |
| 3 | The long metal tubes , detonators , detonating cord and homemade explosives are laid out on the ground , whilst the Police and the host of other interested parties take photographs . |
| 4 | We gazed enraptured at the city of Bath from the train as it drew in to the station — it was all laid out on the slopes of Lansdown like an aerial map of a moon landscape . |
| 5 | By the time Richard and Murray were called to the headmaster 's study a sheaf of publications headlining the incident were laid out on the large drum table . |
| 6 | Most churches were laid out on the basis of equilateral triangles and squares , the so-called ‘ ad triangulum ’ and ‘ ad quodraturn ’ methods . |
| 7 | For general purpose pads 2.4mm o/d are quite adequate and again special shapes are available for integrated circuit pin-outs which are already conveniently laid out on the correct 0.1″ pitch . |
| 8 | Incidentally , although some models have view-finders which are adjustable to suit either right-eye or left-eye viewing , camcorder design on the whole favours right-handed people in the way that the controls are laid out on the body . |
| 9 | Frankie 's eyes nearly popped out of his head when he clapped eyes on the room and its contents , especially what was laid out on the table . |
| 10 | The cat had been laid out on the step , like an offering , scarcely recognisable as a grey tabby through the blood that matted its fur . |
| 11 | When Ted arrived at the box , the signalman 's corpse had been laid out on the signal frame- and was covered with a sheet , from where he was removed by ambulance to the local hospital . |
| 12 | Laid out on the ground are the dead of the day so far . |
| 13 | When David gave the all clear the paragliders were laid out on the hillside forming splashes of startling colour on the green backdrop . |
| 14 | Gertrude Jekyll 's garden is laid out on the eastern side , in a drawer which extends more fully than the garage . |
| 15 | A nylon Firebird sleeping bag was laid out on the floor directly in front of the door , obviously being used as a makeshift pillow . |
| 16 | Jarvis 's train set , the one which had diverted him from his mother 's grief on the day her father hanged himself , was laid out on the floor in Lower Six , a classroom on the top floor , and Jarvis had told Jasper he could play with it whenever he liked . |
| 17 | In one of the accompanying photographs it will be noticed that the swingle trees have been laid out on the chassis in front of the boot containing the collapsible bed . |
| 18 | Eliot 's presents were laid out on the table , and there was champagne and a birthday cake : when Rupert Hart-Davis lit the candles on the cake , Eliot knelt down and blew them out . |
| 19 | She had spotted it when Stella was laid out on the sofa . |
| 20 | He was looking at a beautiful textbook about racehorses that Arthur had laid out on the floor . |
| 21 | The audience influences the style by indicating the seriousness , formality , or otherwise that the publication should adopt and the first area that this affects is the way the text is laid out on the page . |
| 22 | This is best laid out on the plates whilst the brains are being simmered . |
| 23 | A red carpet was laid out on the runway by soldiers — they only just had it straight when the official parties arrived . |
| 24 | Once the railway company and the engineers had decreed where the station was in fact to be located , particularly the larger divisional points , 120–140 miles apart , towns were laid out on the traditional grid-plan . |
| 25 | The towns were generally laid out on the northern side of the tracks . |
| 26 | Janet had my breakfast laid out on the table and sat there grinning an insane grin at me . |
| 27 | I sometimes think that if the mutilated bodies of those who have been killed were laid out on the Floor of this Chamber the consequences of the decisions of those who sit here might be more effectively brought home to them . |
| 28 | For years afterward , whenever a line was accidentally misaligned ( as happened , for instance , at Sough Tunnel on the Blackburn & bolton in 1847 ) , it was always said to have been ‘ laid out on the Flynn principle . ’ |
| 29 | Laid out on the grass , |
| 30 | " The way the pots are laid out on the floor upside down , all showing the marks . |