Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] lay [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right after the ground rules are laid down by the station when you go in they say , ‘ What is your title ? ’ and if I 'm interviewed on behalf of the branch P R O I say that , if I 'm an officer of Broadham District Council I say that , so the ground rules are there as to who you 're speaking for when the interview starts . |
| 2 | Eliot 's presents were laid out on the table , and there was champagne and a birthday cake : when Rupert Hart-Davis lit the candles on the cake , Eliot knelt down and blew them out . |
| 3 | In 1749 for the first time a single system of tactics was laid down for the entire army , while in 1765 the Hofkriegsrath assumed the power to appoint to all ranks above that of captain and from 1776 an organized State military transport corps began to be built up . |
| 4 | In order to achieve this , almost seven million egg cell precursors are laid down in the female fetus . |
| 5 | The gardens are laid out in the most elegant manner and both the paintings and furniture are surprisingly fine . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The gardens were laid out in the eighteenth century by a French landscape gardener for the then owner and founder , the first Conde de Carvalhal . |
| 9 | The formal gardens were laid out in the 18th century . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In those days all the cutters were laid up on the trot piles in the river Hamble during the winter months . |
| 13 | The bike was sealed to make it waterproof and tracks were laid down under the water for it . |
| 14 | Eggs are laid down in the autumn and a good digestible protein-rich diet , such as earthworms , should be fed at this time in order to encourage early spawning . |
| 15 | In fact , various conditions are laid down in the section itself ; in particular that the nature of the document must be made clear , and that it must contain a statement by the company 's auditors of their opinion on whether the statement is consistent with the accounts and reports and complies with the section and the regulations . |
| 16 | " The way the pots are laid out on the floor upside down , all showing the marks . |
| 17 | The long metal tubes , detonators , detonating cord and homemade explosives are laid out on the ground , whilst the Police and the host of other interested parties take photographs . |
| 18 | Under English evidential law , specific provisions are laid down for the submission and use of computer records in court . |
| 19 | Your minimum notice rights are laid down by the Consolidation Act , which in this respect covers almost all UK-based executives , although some classes of employee , including some part-timers , are excluded . |
| 20 | In addition , other legal principles are laid down by the decisions of judges over time , or proclaimed in legislation . |
| 21 | Their powers were laid down by the old Lunacy and Mental Deficiency Acts , which were concerned with the definition , ascertainment and committal of mentally disordered persons as well as with the administration of the services . |
| 22 | Our objectives are laid out in the attached brochure , and summarised at the end of it , and are of course akin to those of the Council for the Protection of Rural England , with which your Trustees will no doubt be familiar . |
| 23 | Special trains were laid on in the early days , bringing musicians , singers and visitors . |
| 24 | Millions of pounds of investment meant nothing to Bedford-St Pancras commuters when their long-awaited new electric trains were laid up in the sidings while BR and the rail unions hammered each other over one-man operation . |
| 25 | Incidentally , although some models have view-finders which are adjustable to suit either right-eye or left-eye viewing , camcorder design on the whole favours right-handed people in the way that the controls are laid out on the body . |
| 26 | Indeed they often constituted the source of their communities when new villages were laid out by the railway companies beside them . |
| 27 | When David gave the all clear the paragliders were laid out on the hillside forming splashes of startling colour on the green backdrop . |
| 28 | The spending plans were laid down on the assumption of no recession . |
| 29 | Rules were laid down for the management of schools , and the provision of finance by local authorities . |
| 30 | 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 . |