Example sentences of "[been] 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 . |