Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Acts of Parliament , although applying to Scotland , use the English spelling , as do the various forms laid down in the Acts in connection with the representation at Westminster . |
| 2 | I send minutes laid out in the proper style . |
| 3 | Claims brought in respect of loss of cargo will be governed by the rules laid down in the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1971 , the Hague-Visby Rules . |
| 4 | An exclusion clause , which purports to exclude or limit liability under these terms , is subject to the rules already outlined in this chapter , including the rules laid down in the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 . |
| 5 | But these are only reasons of strategy , and a pragmatist believes judges should always be ready to override such reasons when he thinks that changing rules laid down in the past would be in the general interest overall , notwithstanding some limited damage to the authority of political institutions . |
| 6 | All these data will help to inform the stage of development into which the records-of-achievement movement is now moving , namely that of nationalization following the proposals laid out in the 1984 policy statement . |
| 7 | A villager who had played in the open fields as a boy , or watched the sheep in the common pastures , would have lived to see the modern landscape of his parish completed and matured , the roads all made , the hedgerow trees full grown , and new farmhouses built out in the fields where none had ever been before . |
| 8 | Japan continued to favour the guidelines laid down in the 1988 Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resources ( Cramra ) . |
| 9 | This example of evaluation is related to the parameters laid down in the first part of the chapter . |
| 10 | The three raiding parties laid up in the mountains during the day to observe their targets and descended on to the coastal plain as darkness fell . |
| 11 | His front paws rested on the heather as his back legs thrashed about in the dog-sized hole . |
| 12 | But as Percy Makepeace twittered through the hall and down the corridor with his clerical acquaintance , two more cars drew up in the Burleigh driveway . |
| 13 | Meetings could be banned and the townships sealed off in the event of new disturbances . |
| 14 | Later , as a result of other movements in the rocks , fissures opened up in the slowly solidifying granite . |
| 15 | Swathes opened up in the crowds on either side as they saw the brickbats coming . |
| 16 | The bargaining was affected both by the new opportunities opened up in the 1970s and by the growing risks attendant on the 1980s . |
| 17 | Julie fell dead beneath a tree , its lower branches hacked off in the frenzied attack . |
| 18 | That is the private opportunity cost of the funds tied up in the project . |
| 19 | Safri cleaned up in the song awards , with Par Linghade judged best dance song and best cover song and Bomb The Tombi the best album . |
| 20 | Their limbs hung all awry but round the neck of each was a thick , purple line , while the purple-red faces were contorted , swollen tongues held fast between ice-cold lips , eyes rolled back in the sockets . |
| 21 | This is the area to the north of St Paul 's Cathedral , where there is a 1950s development , which he described as ‘ the prototype for all the windswept urban squares dreamt up in the fifties and sixties ’ that amounted to ‘ the rape of Britain ’ . |
| 22 | According to the Americans , a handful of dogfights during the first week produced a lopsided result : nearly a score of the most modern Iraqi French- and Soviet-built fighters shot down in the air for the loss , possibly , of a single American fighter . |
| 23 | Almost all schools ended up in the black in the first year . |
| 24 | Two of his brothers ended up in the House of Lords . |
| 25 | — A Chinese officer in a uniform more than adequately equipped with polished belts , straps and full holsters stood up in the front passenger seat of the car like George Washington crossing the Delaware , shouting dictatorially . |
| 26 | Inglewood must have been a perfect foil for the grand civic buildings of Liverpool , with its open timber balcony on the south side overlooking terraced and formal gardens laid out in the ‘ Old English ’ style . |
| 27 | In the centre of the formal gardens laid out in the 1930s is the Singing Fountain by F. Terzio , cast in 1564–8 . |
| 28 | The formulae employed to calculate their annual payments produced figures no higher than the rents laid down in the charters , but as we have already seen , and as Alexander Gerschenkron stresses , the rents laid down in the charters were excessively high . |
| 29 | The formulae employed to calculate their annual payments produced figures no higher than the rents laid down in the charters , but as we have already seen , and as Alexander Gerschenkron stresses , the rents laid down in the charters were excessively high . |
| 30 | These are usually presented as small corners made up in the particular moulding to give you an idea of the finished effect , but any reputable framer will be able to answer any questions you have , as well as give you plenty of sound advice should you need it . |