Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] lay down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Civilisation , which is wholly controlled by man himself , should never have been allowed to develop without the unquestioning acceptance of the inexorable power of the evolutionary process itself to lay down the basic pattern of human behaviour . |
| 2 | The li as a whole is the cosmic pattern which lays down the lines along which nature and man move , which harmonizes opposites with complementary functions , Yin and Yang , ruler and subject , father and son , and alternates day and night , birth and death , the rise and fall of dynasties , in regular cycles , diverging downwards to the minutest detail of texture and converging upwards to the unity in which everything is interrelated . |
| 3 | There 's an article of the Constitution which lays down the fields with which Parliament may concern itself . |
| 4 | Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath which lays down the obligations and proper conduct of their profession . |
| 5 | Over the past decade a sudden surge of research reports managed to answer the question of when people achieve a basic grasp of psychology : sometime in the fifth year of life we lay down the framework for generalisable inferences about the intentions of others . |
| 6 | The memorandum of association is of crucial importance to the company , for it is this document which lays down the boundaries of the company 's activities . |