Example sentences of "be lay [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cars had been laid on in advance by Tom Warner 's telegram , and we were soon settled in our respective suites or rooms in the C.P.R. 's palatial Hotel Saskatchewan . |
| 2 | According to a TEC person , with his tongue only slightly in his cheek , the razzamatazz had been laid on in attempt to put Andrew Neil at his ease , given his recorded fondness for visiting Tramp , the beautiful person 's London nightclub . |
| 3 | His goal , which squared the friendly 1–1 , was all the more remarkable considering he had been laid up in bed with flu for most of last week and forced to miss Sunday 's game against Torino . |
| 4 | Pakistan 's main doubt is skipper Javed Miandad who has been laid up in London with a stomach complaint since leading Pakistan to Test victory at the Oval . |
| 5 | He said the car had been laid up in storage for 30 years . |
| 6 | For instance , millions have been laid off in the construction industry . |
| 7 | The underlying Lower Limestone Shale is also interpreted as a shallow water sequence , but some beds are believed to have been laid down in poorly aerated conditions ( George 1958 ) and may therefore contain source material . |
| 8 | ‘ Hitherto , their duties have been laid down in professional guidance . |
| 9 | The duties of the workhouse doctor had been laid down in 1868 by order of the Poor Law Board : |
| 10 | Strips of old carpet had been laid down in rows , like pews . |
| 11 | These rules have been laid down in RSC Order 38 , rules 20–34 . |
| 12 | Although the total retail trading area is unchanged at the period end there are in fact two different underlying elements new footage has been laid down in France but this has been off set by a net reduction in the retail trading area in the U K. The sales per square foot which excludes retail sales and is based on the waiting average trading area shows an increase of seven point two percent A low margin of fifty five point six per cent was down from fifty eight point five per cent in the same period last this , this was mainly due to a drop in in-house manufacturing participation and adverse exchange rates . |
| 13 | This denigration assumes , however , that formal equality is only a matter of enforcing the rules , whatever they are , that have been laid down in legislation , in the spirit of conventionalism . |
| 14 | She took me into the first-floor front room , where my father had already been laid out in his coffin . |
| 15 | Outside , the gardens have been laid out in the Italian style , with wide staircases from level to level , which should look spectacular when more mature . |
| 16 | Salisbury had been laid out in the thirteenth century , rather in the fashion of the twentieth century garden cities . |
| 17 | He had been working since the 1820s on his theory that ‘ grand geometrical lines ’ had been laid out in ancient times across the country and that these were indicated by old boundaries and markers . |
| 18 | ZERO SITS ON A swivel office chair and clicks on his Quadra 900 Macintosh PC with 240 megabytes of memory and a keyboard which he has remodelled to conform to his own idea of how a keyboard ‘ should have been laid out in the first place ’ . |
| 19 | It seemed inevitable that he would take the bait that had been laid out in the Park for him . |
| 20 | Built during a period of architectural optimism , when it was assumed that technology would triumph , it had been laid out in a series of oblong paved courtyards , surrounded by long , low , concrete-faced buildings , remarkable solely for their brutalism . |
| 21 | The main lawn and border shapes have been laid out in a flowing line that leads you through the garden , echoing the curve of the path . |
| 22 | Yes , Chair , I , I mean I support the criteria that 's been laid out in five two there , I think it 's very important that we do actually , important that we do actually highlight the issue of low pay , and where it 's occurring , and in , in some way that then prevents companies , the , the unscrupulous type of companies that would come in to exploit that , from actually doing it , since most people would then be aware it , and I think that the last speaker 's just suggested that it 's an extremely cheap way of obtaining masses of information about Shropshire 's erm , earnings levels , and I think that 's very important that we are , and do come to grips with that , and clearly could n't afford officer time to be spent on , on merely collating that all the time . |
| 23 | In English law the doctrine of provocation has two main elements , both of which are laid down in section 3 of the Homicide Act 1957 . |
| 24 | All the principal details of the scheme are laid down in the foregoing or in the drawings . |
| 25 | The procedure for lodging an appeal , and various other procedural matters , are laid down in the Schedule , but the manner of conducting the appeal hearing is left to the committee itself . |
| 26 | First , simple diffusion of chemicals could provide the signals ; secondly , if patterns are laid down in such small fields , their later development may largely be due to programmed growth . |
| 27 | Only when the cells leave the zone do some begin to differentiate into cartilage ; and , as just stated , the cartilage elements are laid down in a proximo-distal sequence — first humerus , then radius and ulna , and only then wrist , and finally hand . |
| 28 | This process is called a Proving of the remedy and strict criteria are laid down in order to ensure that the true action of the remedy is brought out and not any interferences from other sources . |
| 29 | In order to achieve this , almost seven million egg cell precursors are laid down in the female fetus . |
| 30 | Any pads or tracks which are laid down in error can often be removed by laying some sticky tape over the offending area , and pulling away sharply . |