Example sentences of "[was/were] lay down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rules were laid down for the management of schools , and the provision of finance by local authorities . |
| 2 | Most of them are sandstones or limestones that were laid down at the bottom of the shallow seas that once covered this part of North America . |
| 3 | The bike was sealed to make it waterproof and tracks were laid down under the water for it . |
| 4 | The spending plans were laid down on the assumption of no recession . |
| 5 | Guidelines in this area were laid down in the case of Marshall v Harland & Wolff Ltd ( 1972 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The company strategy and plans for the Autumn Trading period were laid down by the Field Sales Director , Steve Higgins , Jack Millar , National Accounts & Administration Director presented the future strategy for major customers and outlined the plans for national promotional activity . |
| 12 | 1.67 The original working rules for courts when awarding interest were laid down by the Court of Appeal in Jefford v Gee [ 1970 ] 2 QB 130 , but have been modified in Cookson v Knowles [ 1979 ] AC 556 ; Pickett v British Rail Engineering Ltd [ 1980 ] AC 136 ; Birkett v Hayes [ 1982 ] 1 WLR 876 and Wright v British Railways Board [ 1983 ] AC 773 . |
| 13 | When the local government map was laid down at the end of the nineteenth century , many of the administrative units — for example , Anglo-Saxon shires and medieval boroughs — were already outdated . |
| 14 | Luke says that , in her case , the offering was laid down for the poor : |
| 15 | In 1749 for the first time a single system of tactics was laid down for the entire army , while in 1765 the Hofkriegsrath assumed the power to appoint to all ranks above that of captain and from 1776 an organized State military transport corps began to be built up . |
| 16 | The common law rule on this was laid down by the Court of Appeal in Cresswell v. Sirl but this rule has been replaced , so far as the protection of livestock against dogs is concerned , by section 9 of the Animals Act . |
| 17 | It was laid down by the Court of Appeal in the following case . |
| 18 | The manner of enforcement was laid down by the statute . |
| 19 | It seemed that the detailed pattern of the embryo was laid down in the egg and became partitioned during cleavage , thus supporting Weissman 's claim . |
| 20 | Fermanagh , Armagh and Tyrone show that a thick and extensive Carboniferous sequence , including Westphalian Coal Measures , was laid down in the ‘ Midland Valley ’ to the southwest of Lough Neagh , and must be expected to extend northeastwards . |
| 21 | The unusual , possibly unique , method of election was laid down in the statutes by John Dakyn . |
| 22 | This time he had shifted his ground ; not a word about the criticisms of Hailsham and Macmillan which we had agreed to delete , nor about untoward consequences in the Arab world : this time it was ‘ breach of confidential relationships ’ contrary to what was laid down in the Report of the Privy Council on Ministerial Memoirs . |
| 23 | This demographic pattern was laid down in the first half of the century when the inter-war birth-rate declined markedly . |
| 24 | It was laid down in the 1991 Duopoly Review that it should not be allowed to offer entertainment until at least 1997 , when the situation will again be reviewed , and possibly for another three years after that . |
| 25 | In such parishes as these the present field and hedge pattern was laid down in the year following the enclosure award , for the allotments would have been many and small . |
| 26 | The form of those prayers was laid down in the teaching of the rabbis , and we can glimpse it in the story of the Pharisee and the Publican . |
| 27 | A general election to a newly created 85-member National Assembly , whose creation was laid down in the Constitution promulgated in mid-1991 , was held on Dec. 20 . |
| 28 | The standard of care expected of a doctor was laid down in the following case . |