Example sentences of "[conj] be laid " in BNC.
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| 1 | the employee works less hours or is laid off |
| 2 | The trained person applies them in ways that are laid down during training . |
| 3 | Local authority and housing association tenants have certain rights that are laid down by government : |
| 4 | As IBM Corp steps up involuntary lay-offs , it is also lowering the ceiling on payments and benefits for employees in the US that are laid off or voluntarily leave the company . |
| 5 | But it is changed too in that it is not so much the details of infant care that are laid down as the principles which should be followed in deciding the details . |
| 6 | Most of them are sandstones or limestones that were laid down at the bottom of the shallow seas that once covered this part of North America . |
| 7 | At one of the major colonies of black-headed gulls in northern England , researchers found that it was a good year if fifteen per cent of the eggs that were laid produced fledged young . |
| 8 | They are still worrying about the foundations of quantum mechanics that were laid down sixty-five years ago . |
| 9 | He glanced at her , and must have recognized the feelings that were laid out frankly on her own face , for her slipped his arm round her and kissed her . |
| 10 | There are roots here that were laid down for you . |
| 11 | From 1689 a new form of service was established for that day , thanking God for discovering " the snares of death that were laid for us " in 1605 , " and likewise upon this day " for bringing King William " safely into this Kingdom , to preserve us from the late attempts of our enemies to bereave us of our religion and laws " . |
| 12 | The gutter will cope with more if laid with a slight ( 1 in 600 ) fall rather than being laid level . |
| 13 | One can appreciate why there may be a deliberate decision to restrict their circulation : these are sensitive matters and whatever policy applies , one group or another will be dissatisfied , perhaps to the extent of taking action against the library ; moreover any decision-making that is laid bare almost always invites debate and dispute . |
| 14 | The involvement of others in planning assumes , of course , that the curriculum that is laid down is compulsory , or mostly compulsory . |
| 15 | The Indian had nothing to do but obey ; and whoever has formed the habit of passive obedience ends by being no longer able to act for himself and comes to love the yoke that is laid upon him . |
| 16 | Of particular relevance to such a potentially egalitarian levelling of differences between social classes is the great emphasis that is laid upon role-playing in fragment I. Chaucer is especially concerned to draw attention to his persona , " Chaucer " , towards the end of the General Prologue and in the Miller 's Prologue ( 725 – 6 ; 3170 – 86 ) . |
| 17 | But there are other people also entertaining on a grand scale at the regatta , as part of the corporate hospitality that 's laid on every year . |
| 18 | Buckland admits that he feels sympathy for users caught in the cross fire but says ‘ in defence of IBM , it was not us who diverged from the strategy that was laid down ’ and that those who stick with LAN Server will have a guaranteed migration path towards a DCE/DME-based system . |
| 19 | They stood beside Ace , and took in the panorama that was laid out like a map below the edge of the plateau . |
| 20 | No n Well yes a lot of it was brushwood or the or erm branches of the birch trees that was that was laid out for that Above the stones and then you put that above . |
| 21 | Ronnie Oldroyd adjusts an extra piece of the Royal Carpet , a separate Chlidema rug that was laid directly under the two Thrones . |
| 22 | it was in here it was sort of like , he 'd been niggly all day , he was tired , he sort of like knocked it over with his foot , and of course it went straight over the dry nappy that was laid out on the floor ready to put under him , I said oh that nappy |
| 23 | the way that was laid out ? |
| 24 | But I gather quite a few people in the industry have actually lost their jobs , have they not , and been laid off ? |
| 25 | These are visible by phase-contrast and polarization microscopy and occur in many Pterygote insects ; such layers are not found in Apterygotes and are laid down with an irregular rhythm in the Coleoptera . |
| 26 | ‘ Matthew will come in the end , ’ said Miss Havisham firmly , ‘ when I die and am laid on that table . |
| 27 | The gardens are the earliest example of Italian design in Bohemia and were laid out in 1534 by Giovanni Spazio for Ferdinand I. They were enlarged and altered by Jan Vredeman de Vries in 1563 and , following the vagaries of fashion , were transformed into French Baroque style in 1730 . |
| 28 | This deals with motion and sense-perception , and is laid out , after the manner of Euclid , as a series of formal demonstrations . |
| 29 | The messages are ordered alphabetically by error string and is laid out in the following way : — |
| 30 | His magic , the magic of uncovering a man who had trod the land that I now trod , who died and was laid in the chalk 3,000 years ago , had been little more than pages in a notebook : another find in the ceaseless archaeological round . |