Example sentences of "[be] laid [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The path here can be very wet , but planks have been laid down over the worst parts . |
| 2 | Thus , in the vital days before September 1939 , not only had prime arrangements been undertaken in connection with aircraft and tanks , but the organisation had been laid down for the ready assembly of ambulance trains and casualty evacuation trains and , through the Mechanical and Electrical Engineers ' Consultative Committee , which was formed in the abortive crisis of September 1938 , to advise the Railway Executive Committee on matters pertaining to Railway Workshops , rolling stock and electrical undertakings . |
| 3 | Under the Transport Act 1985 , local authorities had a duty to pay regard to the transport needs of the elderly and disabled , but merely having to pay regard to those needs does not mean that anything has to be done about the specifications that have been laid down by the disabled persons transport advisory committee . |
| 4 | Responsibility for the administration of services had been laid down by the National Health Service Act 1946 and the 1959 Act further defined the powers and duties outlined there . |
| 5 | A park-like path had been laid out around the sacred waters , with stepping stones . |
| 6 | ZERO SITS ON A swivel office chair and clicks on his Quadra 900 Macintosh PC with 240 megabytes of memory and a keyboard which he has remodelled to conform to his own idea of how a keyboard ‘ should have been laid out in the first place ’ . |
| 7 | Salisbury had been laid out in the thirteenth century , rather in the fashion of the twentieth century garden cities . |
| 8 | Outside , the gardens have been laid out in the Italian style , with wide staircases from level to level , which should look spectacular when more mature . |
| 9 | In order to achieve this , almost seven million egg cell precursors are laid down in the female fetus . |
| 10 | Sorry if you take catty as the para now , then D P are n't actually , the reason D P sent the paper questionnaire is to just double check that all the columns and everything are laid out in the correct way are n't they and then checking it for that reason , whereas they are actually doing it on something like Kathy themselves so they , there is n't the same approval going on . |
| 11 | Our objectives are laid out in the attached brochure , and summarised at the end of it , and are of course akin to those of the Council for the Protection of Rural England , with which your Trustees will no doubt be familiar . |
| 12 | Different types of shops are laid out in different ways — you would n't expect an expensive dress shop to be laid out in the same way as a supermarket , for example . |
| 13 | The explanation of these variations is that , in the Siamese cat , a lower skin temperature causes more pigmentation to be laid down in the growing hairs . |
| 14 | Special trains were laid on in the early days , bringing musicians , singers and visitors . |
| 15 | The foundations of modern archaeology were laid down in the 17th century , and throughout the 17th and 18th centuries emphasis was put on the recording of archaeological monuments , initially as part of general topographical works , but eventually as part of a study of the monuments themselves . |
| 16 | It is only fair to put on record , so that the student of war today can trace Trenchard 's early thinking , by recalling that the Harris war aircraft were laid down in the mid-thirties . |
| 17 | Its weakness was its technical conservatism ; although in 1880 the Admiralty agreed to reintroduce breechloading guns on heavy ships , the armoured cruisers Impérieuse and Warspite , which were laid down in the same year , were still designed to carry a full spread of sail . |
| 18 | The major features of local government in England and Wales were laid down by the 1835 Municipal Corporations Act and by three statutes at the end of the nineteenth century : the Local Government Acts of 1888 and 1894 , and the London Government Act , 1899 . |
| 19 | Their powers were laid down by the old Lunacy and Mental Deficiency Acts , which were concerned with the definition , ascertainment and committal of mentally disordered persons as well as with the administration of the services . |
| 20 | Once the railway company and the engineers had decreed where the station was in fact to be located , particularly the larger divisional points , 120–140 miles apart , towns were laid out on the traditional grid-plan . |
| 21 | By the time Richard and Murray were called to the headmaster 's study a sheaf of publications headlining the incident were laid out on the large drum table . |
| 22 | The gardens were laid out in the eighteenth century by a French landscape gardener for the then owner and founder , the first Conde de Carvalhal . |
| 23 | These high moorland stone-walled fields near Malham , West Yorkshire , were laid out in the eighteenth century . |
| 24 | They were laid out in the formal style 300 years ago by James II 's gardener , Guillaume Beaumont . |
| 25 | The formal gardens were laid out in the 18th century . |
| 26 | The function of the weaving brushes is to push the yarn into the correct position so that it is laid in to the knitted fabric . |
| 27 | The procedure is laid down in the 1971 Planning Act — Section 26 — and is a prerequisite for a valid application . |
| 28 | The definition of refugee is laid down in the United Nations convention . |
| 29 | Gertrude Jekyll 's garden is laid out on the eastern side , in a drawer which extends more fully than the garage . |
| 30 | The messages are ordered alphabetically by error string and is laid out in the following way : — |