Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also laid down certain rules fur balance , on the need to bend the knees always as a preparation for any kind of step followed by a stretch , on the vital use of the head and on the need fur the co-ordination of all parts if the desired movements were to be precise and elegant . |
| 2 | Saint-Léon laid down certain rules for the staging of character dance based on the traditional folk dance of a particular country . |
| 3 | To counter this aggression the United States laid down certain rules and conditions which the Japanese blatantly ignored . |
| 4 | For the Roman catholic social teaching of the day laid down certain things as of natural law which anyone who was reasonable and honest was supposed to be able to recognize . |
| 5 | ‘ Jesus laid down moral standards , such as in the Sermon on the Mount . |
| 6 | The government laid down extensive amendments at both the Committee and Third Reading stages of the Bill , such that one MP considered that there had been a ‘ complete rewriting of the whole Bill ’ and another that it ‘ has become virtually a Government Bill ’ |
| 7 | The later programmes laid down clearer guidelines about the objectives and role of Urban Programme funding than was always apparent in the later 1970s . |
| 8 | The right to mine Oakenhill was bought in the early '80s by the Free Miners , who still exercise their mining privileges in the Forest under laws laid down 7 centuries ago . |
| 9 | In the Nutricia case the court laid down various guidelines . |
| 10 | Lennox-Boyd then laid down that independence would only be granted if wanted by ‘ a substantial majority of the people ’ ; if Bourne 's proposals were accepted by NLM as well as CPP then they could go ahead : ‘ If he failed then there appeared to be no alternative but to call a general election ’ ( p.245 ) . |
| 11 | Or rather , they laid down specific principles that were to be more or less taken for granted by subsequent positivists . |
| 12 | This laid down specific objectives for each party in A Squadron in three phases , specifying that the squadron would come under the command of the Eighth Army on 16 October . |
| 13 | Back in 1952 the then Home Secretary , Sir David Maxwell Fyfe , laid down specific guidelines to the Director-General of MI5 as to how it should operate in the future . |
| 14 | The Factory Act of 1901 laid down enforceable standards of space , cleanliness and sanitation in workplaces , and of methods of payment . |
| 15 | As approved by the conference , the 27-page Declaration laid down broad principles of environmentally-sound development , but was generally viewed as a somewhat unsatisfactory compromise between the widely differing wishes of various states . |
| 16 | On the one hand there was the central government and its economic ( and taxation ( plans which laid down broad policy and investment strategy ; on the other hand was the ‘ club ’ of often just two traditional suppliers of equipment . |
| 17 | There Philip and Richard laid down three conditions upon which they were prepared to make peace . |
| 18 | At a meeting with Communist leaders on I1 December 1934 , Fenner Brockway laid down three conditions for continued co-operation : ( a ) Neither Party was to interfere in the internal affairs of the other ( b ) The Communist Party should state clearly whether it would oppose Labour Party or ILP candidates at elections ( c ) There should be no attempt to unify the ILP and the Communist Party into a single organisation until the next Annual Conference had discussed the matter . |
| 19 | For almost every railway line built by the different railway companies — permission for which was passed by the House in different eras — we laid down different procedures . |
| 20 | I can tell him that , if we had been involved in the process during the years in which this Government were involved , proper priority would have been given to the very stipulations that we laid down some time ago about convergence , the accountability of institutions and the need for a change in regional and structural funding — as well as several other considerations , some of which are now contained in article 2 of the treaty . |
| 21 | This was challenged and , after various proposals were fought over , the 1983 Act laid down detailed principles about consent and procedures for their application . |
| 22 | It is not necessary to show exclusive reliance so that in the Cammell Laird case ( 1934 ) , notwithstanding that the buyers laid down detailed specifications as to the propellers made by the sellers , there was still , in Lord Macmillan 's words , " an important margin within which the [ seller 's ] skill and judgment had scope for exercise " ( p419 ) . |
| 23 | She laid down twenty pounds , and fixed on him girlish , friendly eyes . |
| 24 | Suffice it to say that , in the absence of a sufficiently ‘ mature ’ , well-educated civil society in Siberia , Speranskii sought to design a structure of bureaucratic agencies and offices in which power was vested in institutions rather than personalities , which took full cognizance of individual regions ' peculiar human and material needs and circumstances ( both Russian and native ) , and which laid down proper codes of administrative procedures , legal practices and economic policies . |
| 25 | Mr Griffiths said : ‘ It is time the Government laid down proper guidelines to stop the public being duped . ’ |
| 26 | Octavia Hill laid down strict rules for her tenants including prompt payment of rent on pain of eviction . |
| 27 | The revised law laid down strict rules on the issuing of permits for demonstrations and forbade government and party officials from participating . |
| 28 | Together they laid down strict rules to keep the vital traffic moving . |
| 29 | Wessex Regional Health Authority laid down strict conditions for his return , but Dr Cox said yesterday he had received ‘ certain assurances ’ and was happy to accept them . |
| 30 | Members of the Gospel Outreach Centre , Clifton Road , say they were forced to shut down after Darlington council laid down strict planning restrictions . |