Example sentences of "[noun] lay down the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cornelius laid down the unsipped glass . |
| 2 | The law lays down the general principle , and the doctor who acts skilfully , reasonably , and in good faith is protected . |
| 3 | The government has adopted a decree laying down the legal framework for licensing companies to carry out recovery and treatment of packaging waste . |
| 4 | The statutes laid down the maximum size of peasant land allotments . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Here and there minor changes in field boundaries may have been made during the past 150 or 200 years , but on the whole the enclosure map lays down the present-day pattern exactly . |