Example sentences of "[not/n't] lay [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These females do not lay eggs ; they give birth to young aphids , all of which are females . |
| 2 | They are a long-lived species and a pair will not lay eggs every year . |
| 3 | The female workers can not lay eggs . |
| 4 | Also the latter sfumato technique that Ramsay favoured , in which smokily smooth and imperceptible transitions are effected between areas of colour , did not lay emphasis on the linear as the early style had . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , Ms Craig ! ’ she exclaimed , rushing forward with outstretched hands as if afraid Melissa would vanish if she did not lay hold of her . |
| 6 | Foucault emphasizes that his work does not lay claim to universal or general categories , nor is it even homogeneous , a presupposition that , as he has shown , has less to do with the work as such than the critical construction of its ‘ author ’ . |
| 7 | It is because such a historical social psychology would cut through the conventional distinction between pure and applied social psychology , and because it would not lay claim to universal psychological principles , that it would involve a more radical change in orientation that a universal anthropological social psychology . |
| 8 | Some of them brought to it a breadth of experience of teaching to which we could not lay claim . |
| 9 | Nothing is known of his education except that he did not lay claim to any degree . |
| 10 | The issue , an ongoing source of tension , had been aggravated by remarks in July by Demiral on the eve of the inauguration of the Ataturk dam on July 25 , to the effect that Iraq and Syria could not lay claim to the water Turkey drew from the Euphrates and Tigris rivers . |
| 11 | I would not lay hands on the Lady Eleanor , even though my eyes … |
| 12 | Well , in sum , I do not lay hands on my staff , however much they attract me . |
| 13 | The report does n't lay blame solely with government , building societies , credit companies or irresponsible borrowers , they say life is n't that simple . |
| 14 | Frogs do n't lay spawn in winter . |
| 15 | We Brits may have invented cricket , tennis , football , rugby , golf , darts and bowls but we ca n't lay claim to baseball , ice hockey , American football , ten-pin bowling , rhythmic gymnastics , synchro swimming or sumo wrestling . |
| 16 | If , like many of us , you ca n't lay hand son the exact title and date of publication DO NOT be deterred but add contextualising detail of the kind which will help librarians as well as researchers to locate the item eg , size ( in a great fat book ) ; colour ( bluey-green cover with photos … ) ; age ( quite old now I suppose , have n't seen it in bookshops for ages … ) . |
| 17 | Probably only collecting rents or some such thing , but it will be better if they do n't lay eyes on you . |