Example sentences of "laid [adv prt] the [adj] " 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 | His most effective early church planter laid down the great missionary principle of becoming all things to all men that by all means he might win some . |
| 3 | 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down the general principle of comprehensive education which would have ended selection over a period ( but this was repealed in the 1979 Act ) . |
| 4 | Three hundred and forty years later , in 1918 , the National Education Association and the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools , in the United States , approved the so-called Certain Standards ( named after the chairman of its working party , Carl Caspar Certain ) which laid down the first standard specifications for a secondary school library . |
| 5 | They seem to have bullied him and made him er , make concessions , and the question that Freud and Bullett constantly ask is , why did Wilson make these concessions , especially since his position was already defined before he came to Europe , you know he already laid down the fourteen points , and sold it to the American people . |
| 6 | The 1971 White Paper laid down the following requirements for adult training centres and showed the actual provision in 1969 , as shown overleaf . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Cornelius laid down the unsipped glass . |
| 9 | The big moment came : she opened her hand and laid down the burdened flower by Maman 's plate . |
| 10 | The statutes laid down the maximum size of peasant land allotments . |
| 11 | Will then organise conference at which present problems can be cleared and principles laid down The next day , 22 May , AFHQ replied to Eighth Army [ KP 22 ] ] : " Policy discussions on questions indicated your U 128 now being considered this HQ . |
| 12 | It also laid down the constitutional right for anyone who passed the Abitur — the German equivalent of A levels — to study at university . |
| 13 | That year the great Earl of Chatham , formerly the elder Pitt , laid down the basic principles of British naval policy : |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Wilds and Busby laid out the general design and the facades of the houses ; others were left to finish the interiors and tidy up the edges . |
| 17 | The officer in charge went forward to check that all was well and with a Permanent Staff Instructor laid out the electrical initiation cable and applied the detonators to the ring main they had fitted up the previous afternoon . |
| 18 | Augustus laid out the first Imperial residence in this part of Rome , followed by Tiberius , Caligula and Domitian ; Septimius Severus built here on a very large scale . |
| 19 | Instonians have former international and vice-captain Keith Crossan back in the side after a successful visit to Donegal 's Sheephaven Bay where the local junior club laid out the red carpet in spectacular fashion for an international select side . |
| 20 | In his speech to the Assembly , Drnovsek laid out the main themes of his government 's programme . |
| 21 | Thus the chronicler of St Albans monastery tells us that about the year 950 Abbot Wulsin laid out the rudimentary town outside the north gate of the abbey . |
| 22 | I felt that the design for this holiday picture should be a natural and less structured design than normal , so I laid out the pressed stems of eucalyptus which naturally fell into a fan shape and used that as the basis of my design . |
| 23 | " You laid out the dead ? " |