Example sentences of "[noun pl] were lay [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words were laid out in a strange manner . |
| 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 South-west England block and basin limestones and shales and spilitic basic volcanics were laid down in an extensional basin developed at the western end of the Rheno-Hercynian zone . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The formal gardens were laid out in the 18th century . |
| 6 | In those days all the cutters were laid up on the trot piles in the river Hamble during the winter months . |
| 7 | The bike was sealed to make it waterproof and tracks were laid down under the water for it . |
| 8 | Detailed regulations for the construction of new buildings were laid down in a great variety of Acts and bye-laws . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Development began in 1928 , with Barry Parker as consultant ; 10 residential neighbourhoods were laid out with a road layout which followed the American practice of parkways . |
| 11 | Special trains were laid on in the early days , bringing musicians , singers and visitors . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Indeed they often constituted the source of their communities when new villages were laid out by the railway companies beside them . |
| 14 | When David gave the all clear the paragliders were laid out on the hillside forming splashes of startling colour on the green backdrop . |
| 15 | The spending plans were laid down on the assumption of no recession . |
| 16 | Rules were laid down for the management of schools , and the provision of finance by local authorities . |
| 17 | By linking these limits according to the pattern of the street layout , bearing in mind that roads were laid out in a grid-pattern in the 19th C and in cul-de-sacs , crescents and curves in the 20th C , we could see the growth patterns from the centre of Nottingham outwards . |
| 18 | Large numbers were laid up with a multiplicity of gearbox , transmission , body and wheelset problems . |
| 19 | The field at Adswood was sold , and new playing fields were laid out at the front of the School , facing the railway line . |
| 20 | His boots were laid out on a newspaper , and had been scraped and polished . |
| 21 | Once the railway company and the engineers had decreed where the station was in fact to be located , particularly the larger divisional points , 120–140 miles apart , towns were laid out on the traditional grid-plan . |
| 22 | Most churches were laid out on the basis of equilateral triangles and squares , the so-called ‘ ad triangulum ’ and ‘ ad quodraturn ’ methods . |
| 23 | The victims were laid out in the churches to be claimed by relatives , many , reportedly , still showing a spark of life which was ignored in the general rush to clear up . |