Example sentences of "[conj] lay down [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then we wrapped ourselves in every bit of clothing we could find and lay down on the ground to get some sleep . |
| 2 | Or ‘ Why do n't you go and lay down in the middle of Piccadilly Circus ? ’ |
| 3 | Sequential notes follow the pattern as laid down by the lecturer or speaker , or record the pattern of thought of the author whose book you are making notes from . |
| 4 | Westminster City Council 's was appointed to set up training sessions with Chinatown restaurant owners as they prepared to meet requirements as laid down by the Food Safety Act . |
| 5 | He was confident that search consultants stuck to their rules of good conduct and professional service without the need for the kind of official regulation in force in the USA , as laid down by the Association of Executive Search Consultants , ( formerly the Association of Executive Recruitment Consultants ) . |
| 6 | They passed the Littlegate of St Paul 's where a lay brother was feeding a group of lepers with mouldy bread and rancid pork slices , as laid down by the city fathers who judged such food actually helped them . |
| 7 | Observer teams met on April 2 in Goma , Zaïre , under the aegis of the Organization of African Unity , as laid down in the ceasefire agreement signed between the government and rebels of the Rwanda Patriotic Front ( FPR ) in N'Sele , Zaïre , in mid-March [ see p. 38088 ] and formalised on March 29 . |
| 8 | Inclusion of the word " federal " , which the UK government insisted had connotations in English , if not in other EC languages , of a " superstate " was described by the Independent of June 18 as " effectively the price being demanded of Britain , incidentally also of France , for insisting between them that the two main new areas for common action — foreign and security policies and judicial affairs — should be kept separate from the traditional EC constitutional structure as laid down in the Treaty of Rome [ see pp. 15951-59 ] " . |
| 9 | As laid down in the will that he had made on 29 April 1696 , revising an earlier one dated 13 July 1685 , in which his wife had been named as his sole heir , Howard 's estates were inherited by his only surviving child , Henry Charles Howard ( born 18 October 1668 ) ; from him they descended to his son , Charles Howard [ q.v. ] , who became tenth Duke of Norfolk in 1777 . |
| 10 | He showed him how to make out his expenses chits , filling in ‘ Office duties , 5s. 6d. ’ for each day of the week , as laid down in the house agreement between union and management . |
| 11 | The left-wing Broad Left Frente Amplio and the PIT-CNT trade union confederation had in mid-February gathered the necessary signatures , as laid down in the Constitution , to call the special poll in their protracted campaign to protect state-sector employment [ see p. 38761 ] . |
| 12 | If any person had the authority to be in the vicinity he would be wearing a high visibility vest , as laid down in the Railway Regulations , it would be madness not to do so . |
| 13 | In the event of non-compliance , in English law , an action can be brought for breach of contract or tort up to six years after the date of the event , as laid down in the Limitation Act 1980. [ 1 ] Documents that originate through the existence of the contract and evidence the events arising under the contract should therefore be maintained for that six year period . |
| 14 | There remains , however , the much more substantial argument that the GLC had exceeded its statutory powers as laid down in the Transport ( London ) Act 1969 . |
| 15 | In whatever capacity the surveyor is appointed , he should understand first his role as defined by his conditions of engagement agreed with his client and , secondly , his specific role as laid down within the building contract being used . |