Example sentences of "lay [adv prt] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I feel that the trading standards officers have exceeded their authority by requiring Mr Wilson to conform with standards laid down for new stations and not established premises . ’ |
| 2 | The government linked the cuts with the need to contain public spending in order to meet the economic convergence criteria laid down for European Community economic and monetary union [ see p. 38658 ] . |
| 3 | A startling 24 failed to meet standards laid down for public water supplies . |
| 4 | If only it were Lorrimer 's cadaver which would be cradled in porcelain on the post-mortem table next day , laid out for ritual evisceration . |
| 5 | The wreckage of several crashed aircraft laid out for detailed examination . |
| 6 | However , at one stage , different conditions were laid down for different nationalities : a national plebiscite was demanded in order to ratify independence for Poland , Courland and Lithuania , whereas a vote of workers alone was required for the Ukraine , the Caucasus republics and Latvia . |
| 7 | In The Written Language Bias in Linguistics ( 1982 ) he lays out for fellow linguists the detailed ways in which that bias has , he believes , affected their theory . |