Example sentences of "[verb] down [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saint-Léon laid down certain rules for the staging of character dance based on the traditional folk dance of a particular country . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Octavia Hill laid down strict rules for her tenants including prompt payment of rent on pain of eviction . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The treaty may lay down transitional provisions for the successive stages of EMU according to the circumstances of the different countries . " |
| 6 | It will lay down minimum terms for a new manufacturer 's guarantees . |
| 7 | The directive would also lay down minimum requirements for the conduct of takeovers , effectively superseding the City of London 's Takeover Panel . |
| 8 | The Convention not only transferred the Crown to William and Mary , but also laid down certain terms for the new rulers in the document known as the Declaration of Rights , and if the offer of the Crown was not strictly speaking conditional upon William and Mary 's acceptance of these terms , it was clear that everyone expected that they were to abide by them . |
| 9 | The European Community has laid down tough standards for water purity which will take many years to achieve in countries like the UK . |
| 10 | Tory-controlled Westminster City Council lays down strict rules for elected persons . |
| 11 | The directive will require mutual recognition of the various regulatory systems , and lay down general principles for national supervisors . |
| 12 | In a typical example , the land will be bought by a development company ; a geological survey done by surveyors ; plans drawn up by architects ; the plans submitted to the local authority for approval and to check that they comply with the Building Regulations , which lay down minimum standards for public health and safety ; a builder engaged to construct the houses , who may sub-contract certain aspects of the work to specialist firms . |
| 13 | ‘ Mrs Richards , God bless her , put down good money for them . |
| 14 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : I have been careful not to lay down specific periods for the bids to come in , because , as I have said many times , it may take longer for some management-employee buy-outs to be lodged than others . |
| 15 | According to Devlin , society may wish to lay down moral standards for its citizens , and it may wish to use the criminal law to enforce those standards . |
| 16 | Already rationalised by Babbage , it was later given its most explicit and systematic expression by F.W. Taylor , whose project was to eliminate the autonomy of the worker by appropriating for management any remaining knowledge or skill involved in the direct production process , to analyse and codify the components of the labour process and thereby to permit the management to lay down standard rules for the expenditure of labour power . |
| 17 | Though he argued that any attempt to lay down rigid rules for classifying applications would be doomed to failure' , Dobry thought that guidance should be given in a national code of practice . |
| 18 | As a result of all this , and in an attempt to lay down clear guidelines for Crown Court rulings in future cases the Attorney-General , under s.36 of the Criminal Justice Act 1972 , referred the decision to the Court of Appeal and ultimately to the House of Lords . |
| 19 | It was all very well for the government in Moscow to lay down severe penalties for its servants who maltreated the natives . |
| 20 | The Cabinet on Sept. 23 adopted a draft law laying down heavy penalties for those employing illegal immigrants [ see also p. 38354 ] . |
| 21 | Just as within a state the law may be more effective in responding to armed robbery than it is at responding to a military coup d'état , so in relations between states the law may be better at laying down detailed provisions for the treatment of prisoners of war than it is at addressing the potential human catastrophe of a nuclear war . |
| 22 | It was , Mr. Langley submitted , for the very reason that section 39 overrode confidence that the provisions of sections 82 to 84 were incorporated by Parliament , laying down careful guidelines for the preservation of confidence by the recipients of information under the Act , subject to specified exceptions . |