Example sentences of "to lay [adv] [noun pl] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prescriptivism is , in essence , the view that it is possible to lay down rules for the correct use of language . |
| 2 | Stalin sought to lay down criteria for the identification of a ‘ nation ’ ( the entity which possessed the right of national self-determination ) as a means , a moral theory , to separate authentic and spurious claims . |
| 3 | Furthermore by taking an ideological rather than merely a dispositive approach he is able to lay down principles for the reconstruction of societas in the modern age . |
| 4 | Arrese got together a study-group of hard-line Falangists , whose mission was to draft four documents : a new version of the Party Statutes , which had last been revised seventeen years earlier , in August 1939 ; a law of the Fundamental Principles of the State , which was to encapsulate the basic tenets of Francoism ; a law of the Movement , which was to give legal form to the distinction between " the Party " , FET y de las JONS , as a clearly delimited group of political activists , and " the Movement " , which encompassed all those who actively or passively subscribed to the values which inspired Francoism ; and an Organizational Law of the Government , which was to lay down ground-rules for the legislative and executive powers of the government . |
| 5 | Sutton had recruited Bill Packford , who had worked with him on the Evening News in the old days , to lay out pages for the 7 December dummy edition . |