Example sentences of "lays [adv] the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The CMT regulates the MATIF , ensures its proper functioning , approves new contracts or the deletion of existing ones , and lays down the conditions that clearing house members must meet .
2 This Act lays down the matters to be stated , and reports to be set out , in a prospectus issued when an offer or invitation is being made to the public .
3 The li as a whole is the cosmic pattern which lays down the lines along which nature and man move , which harmonizes opposites with complementary functions , Yin and Yang , ruler and subject , father and son , and alternates day and night , birth and death , the rise and fall of dynasties , in regular cycles , diverging downwards to the minutest detail of texture and converging upwards to the unity in which everything is interrelated .
4 Heterosexism lays down the rules and conditions under which all sexualities are valued or devalued in our society and penalties/benefits accordingly awarded .
5 Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath which lays down the obligations and proper conduct of their profession .
6 The memorandum of association is of crucial importance to the company , for it is this document which lays down the boundaries of the company 's activities .
7 Here the myth of the founding text is most clearly articulated to that of the founding fathers , whose word lays down the laws of a history in which women and children do not count .
8 A Parochial Fees Order lays down the fees payable to the Church of England for funeral services and burials in Church of England churches , the churchyards and consecrated parts of cemeteries .
9 There 's an article of the Constitution which lays down the fields with which Parliament may concern itself .
10 The Old Testament lays down the fundamentals of a Christian social ethic in three major ways .
11 The government 's circular ( 8/87 ) which lays down the guidelines to be observed stresses the importance of a spirit of confidence between parents , governors and teachers in the approach to this question .
12 There 's a very interesting table which is now produced by the D of E , not by Labour Weekly or anybody else , which lays out the amounts of money that are set aside in order for the collection .
13 Lechte 's ‘ Art , Love and Melancholy in the work of Julia Kristeva ’ is exemplary for the clarity with which it lays out the terms of Kristeva 's later work .
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