Example sentences of "laid [adv prt] [prep] the government " in BNC.

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1 Your council can also choose to extend these periods of time or set new classes of property other than the one laid down by the Government .
2 But the five-figure sum paid for No 34 Smith Square , Westminster , will not reduce customers ' water bills under privatisation rules laid down by the Government itself .
3 The number of years over which loans could be repaid was a matter for each individual authority , subject to maxima laid down by the Government for given categories of assets .
4 There is not only a form of filtering within homes of the rooms offered to those on income support , but homes sometimes put up a bar against those whose only contribution is up to the ceiling laid down by the Government .
5 They said that difficulty had been created because of the uncertainty of poll tax funding and of the regime laid down by the Government .
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