Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] lay down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It follows from the foregoing that Community law lays down a principle according to which a member state is obliged to make good the damage to individuals caused by a breach of Community law for which it is responsible . |
| 3 | Juliana Hatfield lays down the line down the line . |
| 4 | Drummer Barrett Martin lays down a dauntingly hard-but-fair rhythm manifesto , while Gary Lee Conner is the band 's only obvious showman , a tangle of sweat , hair and punkoid Townshend windmill routines who , even when horizontal , somehow managed to keep his act on the rails for such intricate anthemic lullabies as ‘ Bed Of Roses ’ or ‘ Shadows ’ , the opening nugget from the new ST album . |
| 5 | Lord Diplock laid down a presumptions approach to the question : One starts with the presumption … that where an Act creates an obligation , and enforces the performance in a specified manner … that performance can not be enforced in any other manner … |
| 6 | Lord Diplock laid down the essentials for a passing-off action : 1 ) a misrepresentation 2 ) made by a trader in the course of trade 3 ) to prospective customers of his or ultimate consumers of goods or services supplied by him 4 ) which is calculated to injure the business or goodwill of another trader and 5 ) which causes actual damage to a business or goodwill of the trader by whom the action is brought . |
| 7 | The Oxford Student laid down the challenge — ’ see you in court , John ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | General Carson laid down the slip of paper he had been studying and looked at the colonel seated across the table from him . |
| 11 | On Sept. 23 the federal government adopted a draft law laying down the modalities of partition and providing for the reallocation of the federal state 's property , institutions , debts and obligations between the two republics before Jan. 1 , 1993 . |
| 12 | After these tests the railway engineers laid down a maximum sideways acceleration equivalent to tilting the track by 4½ degrees . |
| 13 | The employment legislation lays down a series of rules as regards the date of dismissal . |
| 14 | A Parochial Fees Order lays down the fees payable to the Church of England for funeral services and burials in Church of England churches , the churchyards and consecrated parts of cemeteries . |
| 15 | A group of American venture capitalists laid down the law to European hopefuls at the Etre conference in Vienna a couple of weeks ago . |
| 16 | Here and there minor changes in field boundaries may have been made during the past 150 or 200 years , but on the whole the enclosure map lays down the present-day pattern exactly . |
| 17 | THE LATE Jock Stein laid down a strategy for the World Cup when he said that a team could wear working clothes to qualify , but needed to find evening dress for the event itself . |