Example sentences of "laid [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other events have been laid on for the old-timers , including a tour on Wednesday of Craigantlet hillclimb , one of the oldest events in the British championship , and an autotest at Ballywalter on Thursday afternoon . |
| 2 | A buffet lunch was laid on for the advisers , a chicken leg , various meat-filled butties , an apple and a large Kit-Kat . |
| 3 | The High Sheriff of Cornwall , Sir John Trelawney , opened an ornamental gate with a silver key and a free tea was laid on for the children of the surrounding parishes . |
| 4 | When Kent played Surrey in 1890 a fine spread was laid on for the gentlemen but the professionals ‘ were left to shift for themselves , and thought themselves lucky to get a bit of bread and cheese ’ . |
| 5 | Gas was also laid on to the clubhouse replacing paraffin oil for lighting . |
| 6 | During Edward 's time , a Fielding gas engine was installed , to augment the water power , the gas supply being laid on to the Millbottom area specifically for the mill . |
| 7 | A free coach was laid on by the Sun bringing fans from London . |
| 8 | A helicopter trip , intended to demonstrate ‘ the size and diversity of the Highland area ’ was laid on by the association for Mr Lang , although bad weather forced the cancellation of one leg . |
| 9 | After their 10km walk they were invited to Backnong for a special lunch that had been laid on by the Canal Dignitaries of the town . |
| 10 | Rules were laid down for the management of schools , and the provision of finance by local authorities . |
| 11 | He told them about Marylebone , the night at the hotel , the terms Zack had laid down for the rendezvous , and how he had just made the deadline . |
| 12 | Under English evidential law , specific provisions are laid down for the submission and use of computer records in court . |
| 13 | To reduce the possibility of the lining materials , used for the construction of walls and ceilings , contributing to the initial fire spread within the building , performance standards are laid down for the reaction to fire of the materials used for the exposed surfaces . |
| 14 | Even when trap lines are laid down along the hunting paths of a relatively specialized predator like the barn owl , there may be considerable differences in species proportions represented in the two assemblages . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The growth characteristics of the bones are laid down at the time when the pattern is specified and the elements are very small and this early specification will control growth for many years ( Chapter 10 ) . |
| 18 | Deposits laid down during the rifting phase are termed synrift sediments while those laid down on the margin once continental separation has occurred are termed postrift sediments . |
| 19 | The spending plans were laid down on the assumption of no recession . |
| 20 | These ghastly memorials were frequently laid down during the lifetime of the persons they were intended to commemorate , in order that they might constantly be reminded that they were but mortal . |
| 21 | In fact , this decision was less revolutionary than it appeared : Bush has brought the deadline forward from 2000 , as laid down under the Montreal Protocol , to 1995 , but the EC had already decided to adopt a 1997 deadline and the US had been lagging behind world opinion . |
| 22 | The bike was sealed to make it waterproof and tracks were laid down under the water for it . |
| 23 | But it is changed too in that it is not so much the details of infant care that are laid down as the principles which should be followed in deciding the details . |
| 24 | Theory and tactics were to be laid down from the centre . |
| 25 | So are the precepts laid down in the Sermon on the Mount . |
| 26 | Raphael planned his frescoes in the Stanze to a programme provided by a humanist at the papal court , and the inclusion of almost every detail in Enguerrand Quarton 's marvellously constructed Coronation of the Virgin is laid down in the documents commissioning it . |
| 27 | The unusual , possibly unique , method of election was laid down in the statutes by John Dakyn . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Where no quorum is laid down in the standing orders , common sense must prevail even if , legally , there is nothing to stop one member continuing with the business ! |
| 30 | Their quality and spacing is laid down in the Building Regulations but in the last ten years difficulties have arisen over corrosion , not only in those made of mild steel but also in galvanised ties where the zinc coating is defective . |