Example sentences of "[noun sg] [art] [noun] lay down " in BNC.

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1 In the Nutricia case the court laid down various guidelines .
2 So the Minister has to be very clear , when he comes to the Dispatch Box , whether any company applying to take over STG subsidiaries will be required to take on board the specifications laid down by the disabled persons transport advisory committee .
3 Our friends from Harvard might reply that there is still nothing sexist about the convention , and the triumph of he might even reflect its ‘ naturalness ’ for the function the prescriptivists laid down for it .
4 It is that wherever Parliament in an earlier statute has directed its attention to an individual case and has made provision for it unambiguously , there arises a presumption that if in a subsequent statute the legislature lays down a general principle , that general principle is not to be taken as meant to rip up what the legislature had before provided for individually , unless an intention to do so is specially declared .
5 As with the extended facility the Fund lays down conditions for borrowing .
6 ( 5 ) If a parliamentary by-election occurs in the constituency the procedure laid down in section ( 3 ) of this clause shall be suspended and the National Executive Committee shall co-operate with the Executive Committee of this party in the nomination of a candidate .
7 This enacts in statutory form the rule laid down in Christie v. Leachinsky ( H.
8 Mr Griffiths said : ‘ It is time the Government laid down proper guidelines to stop the public being duped . ’
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