Example sentences of "[was/were] lay out [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | These high moorland stone-walled fields near Malham , West Yorkshire , were laid out in the eighteenth century . |
| 5 | They were laid out in the formal style 300 years ago by James II 's gardener , Guillaume Beaumont . |
| 6 | The formal gardens were laid out in the 18th century . |
| 7 | The brass shop was laid out with the rough brass stores on one side , whence the castings passed to the machines , thence to the benches , and from there to the polishers , next to the platers and finally to the lacquerers at the other side of the shop , each operation in turn bringing the parts further across the shop . |