Example sentences of "be laid [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The barges , designed to be sailed by one man and a boy , could be laid up in a few days . |
| 2 | Consequently , most such factories employed free labourers , as well as slaves , who could be laid off in slack periods . |
| 3 | Rural housing had been the first to receive attention because it could be regarded as the responsibility of each landowner ; but the housing in towns was literally nobody 's business and could pass unnoticed , just as factory hands could be laid off in a recession , as farming labourers with tied cottages could not . |
| 4 | Never never known ever to be laid off in five years . |
| 5 | One of London 's earliest planned suburbs , it began to be laid out in 1773 on the estate of Henry Penton , MP for Winchester , from whom it took its name . |
| 6 | Different types of shops are laid out in different ways — you would n't expect an expensive dress shop to be laid out in the same way as a supermarket , for example . |
| 7 | This was to be laid out in 3% consols in the names of the Trustees , and a general increase of their subscriptions was recommended to the subscribers . |
| 8 | Most of the prison seemed to be laid out in large open ‘ wards ’ with bunk beds rather than individual cells . |
| 9 | Type such notes on one side of the paper and limit them to three or four sheets which can be laid out in front of you and not moved during the programme . |
| 10 | Companies make statutory returns to Companies House ; their annual accounts must by law be fuller and more complicated than those of a sole trader or a partnership and must be laid out in a statutory format . |
| 11 | " This Meeting having considered an overture of the Kirk Session of Bowmore … respecting the procuring of Mortcloths for the better and ordinary Classes of people … do hereby agree to Guarrantee to the said Kirk Session , that whatever sum shall be laid out in the purchase of the said Mortcloths , the Princl. sum and interest shall be reapid to the Session , before they are rendered unfit for use … |
| 12 | This chord for instance , could only be laid out in the manner indicated , but the blend would hardly be impaired at all owing to the thick reediness of the low clarinets . |
| 13 | This is relevant when considering the provisions of s 83 ) of the Fire Prevention ( Metropolis ) Act 1774 , by which either party has the right to require insurance monies to be laid out in reinstatement ( if a request is made to the insurance company before the monies are paid to the insured ) as it seems that the Act does not apply to insurance through Lloyds . |
| 14 | And the wreckage is being flown to RAF Abingdon in Oxfordshire to be laid out in a hanger like a giant jigsaw puzzle , which could help crash investigators pinpoint the cause . |
| 15 | The explanation of these variations is that , in the Siamese cat , a lower skin temperature causes more pigmentation to be laid down in the growing hairs . |
| 16 | Accounts must follow a format that will be laid down in regulations due to come into force in September 1993 . |
| 17 | It is the sort of knowledge that may be laid down in rules and can be learned from books . |
| 18 | The rules may be laid down in Standing Orders or may be the custom and practice of the organisation . |
| 19 | It may be that those aspects of a curriculum , such as skills which are readily expressible in behavioural terms could usefully be laid down in some detail while other aspects , such as problem solving would be more loosely specified or , perhaps , not specified at all . |
| 20 | Although the passages to which I first referred support the conclusion reached by Hoffmann J. as to the effect of the judgment of the Court of Appeal , I do not think that reading the judgment overall such a limitation to ‘ reconstituting the company 's knowledge ’ was intended to be laid down in Cloverbay . |
| 21 | The circumstances of a particular case may oblige the partners as a matter of good faith to proceed first by way of warning as to future conduct or to offer a personal hearing to the offending partner , but few general rules can be laid down in this respect . |