Example sentences of "lay [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 For 50 years the Hops Marketing Board was a governmentregulated body that laid down the price of hops and how many each grower should produce on an annual basis .
2 She laid down the seed packets for emphasis .
3 Carefully , the major turned the conversation to an Iranian editorial he had seen , and they laid down the subject .
4 In its sometimes dictatorial and quirky way , ‘ Collins ’ laid down the law , and many of us are grateful for its guidance .
5 The Treat negotiated at Maastricht laid down the process under which the Community can , if its members meet certain economic conditions , create a monetary union with a single currency for some or all of them .
6 Maggie laid down the job in hand and wiped her forehead .
7 The 1971 White Paper laid down the following requirements for adult training centres and showed the actual provision in 1969 , as shown overleaf .
8 It also laid down the constitutional right for anyone who passed the Abitur — the German equivalent of A levels — to study at university .
9 Susan laid down the paper she had been reading , and with one gloved hand made a little peep-hole on the steamy window of the railway carriage .
10 That year the great Earl of Chatham , formerly the elder Pitt , laid down the basic principles of British naval policy :
11 Nicholas looked at what he had been doing , which was nothing very much , and laid down the stone and the knife and , clasping his knees , looked at Diniz .
12 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 .
13 By experiment and observation , Hahnemann worked out the drug pictures of many remedies and laid down the principles whereby they were to be used — remedies and principles which are still as valid today as they were when Hahnemann first discovered them .
14 In 1986 the Court of Appeal laid down the basic rules on competition by ex-employees in Faccenda Chicken Ltd v Fowler 1986 IRLR 69 .
15 He laid down the letter at breakfast with a white face .
16 With the final umbrella of the Charter , which theoretically laid down the principles of the paper and what it stood for , the last bricks were put into the edifice .
17 Under the title ‘ How we will revive the lost arts of the tabloids ’ , Pilger laid down the criteria : ‘ dramatic , uncropped pictures which the old Express displayed with such flair ; original well-written investigations which the Sunday Times ’ Insight Team pioneered ( I count the old Sunday Times as a great popular paper ) ; and the use of writer-photographer teams which Picture Post and the Mirror used with such power . ’
18 General Carson laid down the slip of paper he had been studying and looked at the colonel seated across the table from him .
19 Similarly , the Act of Six Articles of 1539 laid down the penalties for disobedience to the prescribed articles of faith , and left it to him as supreme head to pronounce upon their doctrinal content .
20 But Lombroso laid down the foundations of most of what was to follow in genetic theories of crime .
21 Almost all the colonies the English ever acquired were of one or another of these three types , and in a number of other ways the overseas activities undertaken between the 1550s and the 1640s laid down the pattern for all that was to come .
22 A group of American venture capitalists laid down the law to European hopefuls at the Etre conference in Vienna a couple of weeks ago .
23 Three hundred and forty years later , in 1918 , the National Education Association and the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools , in the United States , approved the so-called Certain Standards ( named after the chairman of its working party , Carl Caspar Certain ) which laid down the first standard specifications for a secondary school library .
24 In addition to specifying what the core should contain , the framework laid down the percentage of the timetable to be allocated to some subjects , for example , English and mathematics were each to be allocated ten per cent .
25 L 20 , p. 19 ) , which laid down the principle of equal access to fishing grounds ; ( b ) the thirtieth recital in the Preamble to Council Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 3796/81 on the common organisation of the market in fishery products ( Official Journal 1981 No .
26 Will then organise conference at which present problems can be cleared and principles laid down The next day , 22 May , AFHQ replied to Eighth Army [ KP 22 ] ] : " Policy discussions on questions indicated your U 128 now being considered this HQ .
27 She laid down the printing frame that she held .
28 The other ( a Committee under the chairmanship of Lord Dudley ) laid down the forms and the space and equipment standards for post-war housing , and in conjunction with a team from the Ministry of Town and Country Planning , examined matters such as housing layout and densities .
29 But she laid down the rebec on her knees , and looked up at Bénezet with a fiercely thoughtful face .
30 And then the music stopped and Fael-Inis laid down the pipes and turned his golden gaze on Fergus , and the spell faded , and a cold awareness flooded Fergus 's mind .
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