Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wind whipped down the narrow side-streets and alleys , whistling in the wide estuaries . |
| 2 | The agreement includes a vital clause stating that the Commission must examine the rates of duty laid down every two years , and for the first time no later than 31st December 1994 . |
| 3 | This laid down a future programme in which , among the many proposals , they called for Burma 's recognition within the family of nations and admission to the UN , and finally ‘ the establishment of a sovereign state in the very near future ’ . |
| 4 | 4.17 In Roberts v Johnstone [ 1988 ] 3 WLR 1247 the Court of Appeal laid down a general rule for assessing damages where a plaintiff has to purchase special accommodation . |
| 5 | Look at the decision of the Exchequer Chamber how we may , it laid down a new principle . |
| 6 | In a far-reaching judgment , the Court of Appeals laid down a new test for the determination of the question of non-literal copyright infringement , that is , whether there has been an infringement of copyright in non-literal elements such as program structure . |
| 7 | It was the legacy of the previous form of uneven development based in the sectoral spatial division of labour ( high levels of unemployment from previously dominant sectors which had overwhelmingly employed men ) which provided the conditions ( regional policy grants , a ‘ green ’ , female labour force anxious for paid employment ) which attracted in this new form of economic activity and laid down a new form of uneven development . |
| 8 | A shift in the weather pattern , bringing low pressure systems across the Alps in December laid down a firm base . |
| 9 | John Stuart Mill 's definition of the limits of law to curtail individual freedom laid down a simple principle : ‘ that the sole end for which mankind are warranted , individually or collectively , in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number , is self-protection . |
| 10 | The Barrington Sports Centre in the Algarve laid down a first-class pitch and I arranged a game for the Lord 's Taverners against a Portuguese Invitation XI to open up the ground . |
| 11 | The controls , which laid down a minimum deposit for certain goods , restricted the amount of the finance charge which could be made and prohibited finance charges altogether for others , lingered on for a few years afterwards as part of what was still more or less a strictly managed war-time economy . |
| 12 | The Opencast Coal Act 1958 laid down a special method of control operated by the Minister of Power ( later the Secretary of State for Energy ) . |
| 13 | Two thousand years ago a sex manual written in China laid down a few guidelines for gauging a woman 's sexual characteristics from a careful study of her face . |
| 14 | A law signed on March 5 ( given in full in Rossiskaya gazeta of May 6 ) laid down the legal foundations of individual and state security and set up a Security Council responsible for this area , chaired ex officio by the Russian President . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It laid down the general principle of comprehensive education which would have ended selection over a period ( but this was repealed in the 1979 Act ) . |
| 17 | They seem to have bullied him and made him er , make concessions , and the question that Freud and Bullett constantly ask is , why did Wilson make these concessions , especially since his position was already defined before he came to Europe , you know he already laid down the fourteen points , and sold it to the American people . |
| 18 | The 1971 White Paper laid down the following requirements for adult training centres and showed the actual provision in 1969 , as shown overleaf . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Cornelius laid down the unsipped glass . |
| 21 | The big moment came : she opened her hand and laid down the burdened flower by Maman 's plate . |
| 22 | The statutes laid down the maximum size of peasant land allotments . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It also laid down the constitutional right for anyone who passed the Abitur — the German equivalent of A levels — to study at university . |
| 25 | That year the great Earl of Chatham , formerly the elder Pitt , laid down the basic principles of British naval policy : |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ Was the action taken by the British the proper thing to do ? ’ he asked down a crackling line from Buenos Aires to Woodward 's home in Surbiton , Surrey . |
| 29 | She choked down the sudden lump in her throat , rejecting a surge of self-pity she had no need for . |
| 30 | Their way led down a shallow incline between a row of abandoned warehouses , gaunt against the night sky . |