Example sentences of "lay [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The SSD laid off the rower for poor performance , sold off all the paddles , cancelled all the capital investment for new equipment , halted the development of a new canoe , awarded high performance awards to the consultants and distributed the money saved to senior management . ’ |
| 2 | Mr Duckett says : ‘ However poor the local infrastructure , with VSAT you can lay in the communications by literally packaging up the dish , putting it on a lorry and sending it to the site . |
| 3 | Why not lay in the line of tempera , holding the brush against a straight edge , such as a ruler . |
| 4 | We all found him interesting , so when we lay in the sun after lunch , the white gravel covering our backs with powdery marks , his fighting demonstrations were keenly attended . |
| 5 | Clause 1 of the 1944 Act , which details the Secretary of State 's responsibilities to supervise education , was benignly administered ( certainly until the Wilson government 's request for greater progress in the reorganization of secondary education on comprehensive lines , Circular 10/65 ) , nevertheless ( as events in the 1980s were to demonstrate ) there lay in the wording of this clause the potential for a draconian control of education . |
| 6 | A punctured car wheel that someone was repairing lay in the centre of the floor with half its inner tube hanging out like a paunched rabbit . |
| 7 | The key here lay in the provision of information on the occupational hazards of asbestos to the Raybestos Manhattan workers . |
| 8 | I had been trying to produce in Jimbo the necessary mental awareness that the real cure — the reopening of the nerve pathways — lay in the end with him . |
| 9 | But that time must yet remain a few days ahead , while everywhere lay in the throes of a natural disaster — the nature of which had yet to be determined — and while the snow still fell as thickly as it did . |
| 10 | What had come to the poets in their most serene or passionate moments we glided into as easily as we gathered flowers for Maud or Blanche or Mabel , as we lay in the grass with our eyes divided between the books , the land and the clouds . |
| 11 | Various depressed minions started to trickle in and just after seven-thirty , a man in a chef 's hat arrived through the doors that led to the kitchens , carrying an enormous silver tray which he laid in the centre of the table . |
| 12 | The second theme would be the story of these new nations , the Germanic kingdoms whose foundations were laid during the years from about 400 to 600 ad . |
| 13 | I therefore propose that Coopers and Lybrand be and are hereby appointed auditors to the company , to hold office from the conclusion of this meeting until the conclusion of the next meeting er , of the company at which accounts are laid for the company in accordance with section two four one Companies Act Nineteen Eighty Five and that their remuneration for this period be fixed by the directors . |
| 14 | The vision of Arthur Guinness had been realised and the foundations laid for the building of the international organisation that is now Guinness Brewing Worldwide . |
| 15 | The basis was laid for the flowering of secular literature in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century . |
| 16 | Once oxygen and nitrogen appeared , the groundwork was laid for the beginnings of vegetation . |
| 17 | By the anniversary of the invasion of Kuwait , the groundwork had been laid for the introduction of far tighter UN controls over Iraq 's activities in the advanced weapons field . |
| 18 | Unknowingly , the most potent of all sex-education programmes is taking place ; the ground is being laid for the partnerships of the next generation . |
| 19 | Shaped like a T-square , it was placed horizontally with the crosshead laid towards the east in the forenoon , thereby casting a shadow along the stem which was graduated with marks for six hours . |
| 20 | In March 1908 a crossover was laid near the top of Tamworth Road , so that a second car could reverse when one was standing on the terminal stub . |
| 21 | The length of the repairs to be done with the flagstones will vary from several miles to a few hundred yards , and they will be laid with the help of local authorities , volunteers and environmental associations . |
| 22 | The cornerstone of over a century of Russian diplomacy was laid with the signing of a formal alliance with Austria in 1726 . |
| 23 | Two geo ( artificial ) textiles are laid into the bottom of the trench which is then covered with four to six inches of angular cobbles which are laid in by hand so they knit together : A two inch layer of fine gravel is then spread on top . |
| 24 | Not only municipal administration but the whole initiative hitherto exercised by the state was laid into the hands of the Commune ’ ( Marx 1871 , p. 471 ) . |
| 25 | No track was ever laid along the rest of Thicket Road , thus dividing Tramway No. 15 into two separate parts . |
| 26 | She sits for a while beside them , her arm laid alongside the nightlight on the table ; the shoe of the Old Woman , with a pink bulb inside , lifts the shadows in a comforting way . |
| 27 | Yeah , they would , let the bake it we used to Danish foods and cos we used to have a Danish er , we used to have erm Polish ship come in one week and an English ship come in the next week and the , the bacon was just pigs were all killed , wrapped in sacking and tied with string , and they used to be laid in the hold like that . |
| 28 | A white rug had been laid in the centre of the floor and Kiku was seated on an ebony stool , her back to the door . |
| 29 | In the main room a patterned , violet carpet had been laid in the centre of brown lino . |
| 30 | Everything that terrible man laid in the way between them was a test or a trap , and all his will was bent to break the son as he could not break the father . |