Example sentences of "[noun] was lay out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An almost finished game of snakes and ladders was laid out amongst top secret briefing papers . |
| 2 | The parkland was laid out with a smooth lawn . |
| 3 | The Route Impériale was laid out by Napoleon , the First this time , for strategic rather than aesthetic purposes , but it is a delight , a quiet , curly road along a ridge with long vistas of farms and moor land to the east , and of more farms , villages and cultivation to the west . |
| 4 | In the room beyond , the real Tsu Tiao was laid out atop a great , tiered pedestal on a huge bed spread with silken sheets of gold . |
| 5 | On these the lead type was laid out in arranged columns by Bill Adair the foreman . |
| 6 | It would thus seem that unit two pre-dates unit one and that the mill was laid out after unit two . |
| 7 | It now leads , via sharp bends , into the town , whose broad market place was laid out at the gate of Kimbolton Castle probably around 1200 . |
| 8 | Wenceslas Square was laid out for one of Bohemia 's most attractive rulers , King Charles IV , Holy Roman Emperor , who was born and died in Prague . |
| 9 | The town was laid out in a military camp plan with a wide , straight road crossing the city centre from one side of the town to the other and similar roads intersecting the first at right angles . |
| 10 | In 1920 , a connecting line was built from Blundell Street to the railway siding , and the site was laid out in the form of a tramway avenue , served by a tram traverser installed in 1922 . |
| 11 | Each article was laid out on a polythene bag , labelled , ready to be sent to the laboratory . |
| 12 | The Schlosspark at Donaueschingen was laid out for the princes of Fürstenberg in the eighteenth century . |
| 13 | The brass shop was laid out with the rough brass stores on one side , whence the castings passed to the machines , thence to the benches , and from there to the polishers , next to the platers and finally to the lacquerers at the other side of the shop , each operation in turn bringing the parts further across the shop . |
| 14 | An hour later , standing in the darkness , so far from having the fourth murder in a series , they had a new killing : one which was superficially like the others , but whose only real resemblance lay in the infliction of one particular wound , and the manner and location in which the body was laid out after death . |
| 15 | Uncle Philip was laid out on a charcoal grill like a barbecued pork chop . |
| 16 | BARNSLEY HOUSE GARDEN Barnsley , Nr Cirencester , Gloucestershire The original garden at Barnsley was laid out in 1770 and has since been replanted by Rosemary Verey . |
| 17 | At first the hotel was encumbered with the inevitable stone bankers but soon the ground was laid out with a delightful garden ‘ where a respectable band of musicians , formed in this place , meet every Tuesday and Friday evening ’ . |
| 18 | The exceptionally beautiful garden which surrounds the Rectory was laid out by an enlightened early Victorian encumbent who lined the streams with tufa and planted rare snowdrops and ferns along the banks . |
| 19 | Benson as Miss Mapp 's look-out post ; and Sissinghurst Castle in Kent , whose remarkable garden was laid out by Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West . |
| 20 | Subsequently the stomach was laid out on a glass plate and a tissue specimen , 4 mm in diameter , was taken by a punch press from the anterior wall on the greater curvature . |
| 21 | The normal business life of the town continued right up to the last moment and in some houses food was laid out for meals that were never eaten . |
| 22 | The Tournament arena was laid out on a flat piece of land in a loop of the Lugton Water , a few hundred yards east of the castle . |
| 23 | The small garden in which this monument stands and indeed , this entire embankment was laid out in 1848–9 . |
| 24 | This most perfect of all forests was laid out by Lord Cullen in 1719 and is dappled with an amazing variety of trees : oak , ash , elm , copper beech , larch , spruce and magnificent , statuesque Scots pine . |
| 25 | The royal crypt was laid out by the architect Kamil Roškot in 1928–35 . |
| 26 | It has been suggested that a totally new system of open fields for arable agriculture was laid out in at least one area of England in the seventh century ( Hall 1979 ; 1981 ) . |
| 27 | The field was laid out in strips about two feet apart and only after pushing into the crop did I realize that the plants were trained up a trellis of almost invisible wires and that I was in a hop field — a ‘ beer field ’ , as Duncan would have called it . |
| 28 | A nylon Firebird sleeping bag was laid out on the floor directly in front of the door , obviously being used as a makeshift pillow . |
| 29 | Miss Thomas was laid out on a pavement and the police were summoned from a nearby police station . |
| 30 | She had spotted it when Stella was laid out on the sofa . |