Example sentences of "laid down [prep] the [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Under English evidential law , specific provisions are laid down for the submission and use of computer records in court . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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century , many of the administrative units — for example , Anglo-Saxon shires and medieval boroughs — were already outdated . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The spending plans were laid down on the assumption of no recession . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The bike was sealed to make it waterproof and tracks were laid down under the water for it . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Theory and tactics were to be laid down from the centre . |
| 16 | So are the precepts laid down in the Sermon on the Mount . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The unusual , possibly unique , method of election was laid down in the statutes by John Dakyn . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ! |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | These bands are laid down in the state budget , and a committee of ministerial under-secretaries vets nationalized industries ' collective agreements to make sure that they conform to pay limits . |
| 23 | This in turn depends on the price of the tickets , the size of the prizes and whether these are taxable or not , all details which are not laid down in the Bill . |
| 24 | It is likely that , in recent years , a majority of such orders have been sought by the preserved railways under the very procedures that are to be replaced by those laid down in the Bill . |
| 25 | Observer teams met on April 2 in Goma , Zaïre , under the aegis of the Organization of African Unity , as laid down in the ceasefire agreement signed between the government and rebels of the Rwanda Patriotic Front ( FPR ) in N'Sele , Zaïre , in mid-March [ see p. 38088 ] and formalised on March 29 . |
| 26 | Guidelines in this area were laid down in the case of Marshall v Harland & Wolff Ltd ( 1972 ) . |
| 27 | Inclusion of the word " federal " , which the UK government insisted had connotations in English , if not in other EC languages , of a " superstate " was described by the Independent of June 18 as " effectively the price being demanded of Britain , incidentally also of France , for insisting between them that the two main new areas for common action — foreign and security policies and judicial affairs — should be kept separate from the traditional EC constitutional structure as laid down in the Treaty of Rome [ see pp. 15951-59 ] " . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The completion of the Group 's work represents a considerable achievement , and it is on the basis of the Group 's advice on attainment targets and programmes of study that we now make jointly our formal proposals for key stages 2 to 4 in accordance with the provisions laid down in the Education Reform Act . |
| 30 | As to the right hon. Gentleman 's last point , there will be no bar to any governor being appointed to the board of an integrated school , provided that the appointment complies with the provisions laid down in the Education Reform ( Northern Ireland ) Order 1989 . |