Example sentences of "[subord] laid [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 In fact , this decision was less revolutionary than it appeared : Bush has brought the deadline forward from 2000 , as laid down under the Montreal Protocol , to 1995 , but the EC had already decided to adopt a 1997 deadline and the US had been lagging behind world opinion .
2 In the case of breed classes , every entrant is judged not against the other dogs in that class , but rather against the prescribed ‘ ideal ’ for the breed concerned , as laid down by the governing canine authority .
3 He was confident that search consultants stuck to their rules of good conduct and professional service without the need for the kind of official regulation in force in the USA , as laid down by the Association of Executive Search Consultants , ( formerly the Association of Executive Recruitment Consultants ) .
4 The Poor Law was the most comprehensive official source for the relief of poverty , administered in England and Wales as laid down by the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 and a succession of later amendments , in Scotland and Ireland according to different statutes and rather different principles .
5 Sequential notes follow the pattern as laid down by the lecturer or speaker , or record the pattern of thought of the author whose book you are making notes from .
6 He asked him whether the bus specification , as laid down by the disabled persons transport advisory committee , would be a requirement in the disposal programme and whether the bus companies that tender will need to give the Minister an answer .
7 Other Terms and Conditions of this post are as laid down by the National Joint Council as adopted by Lothian Regional Council .
8 After a period of prolonged popular opposition Avril was forced to resign as President in March 1990 and was replaced by Ertha Pascal-Trouillot , a Supreme Court justice , as laid down by the 1987 Constitution .
9 Westminster City Council 's was appointed to set up training sessions with Chinatown restaurant owners as they prepared to meet requirements as laid down by the Food Safety Act .
10 It is then the legal duty in any situation must I think the questions for the court , clearly there 's not practice so accepted standards of conduct as laid down by the professional institute .
11 They passed the Littlegate of St Paul 's where a lay brother was feeding a group of lepers with mouldy bread and rancid pork slices , as laid down by the city fathers who judged such food actually helped them .
12 Apart from these cases , the entire property , other than that in which the deceased 's interest ceased at his death , is held by the executors or administrators on trust for sale , in the first instance for the payment of his debts , and then for distribution as laid down in the Intestates ’ Estates Act 1952 , which has replaced the relevant provisions of the Act of 1925 .
13 To remedy these grievances it was enacted that the Charter of the Forest was to be kept in all its articles , that the perambulations made in the time of Edward I were to be observed , that those perambulations which still remained to be made should be made as quickly as possible , and that the forest boundaries in each county should be confirmed by royal charters , as laid down in the perambulations .
14 If any person had the authority to be in the vicinity he would be wearing a high visibility vest , as laid down in the Railway Regulations , it would be madness not to do so .
15 But the chance survival of a record of a miracle on Easter Day not long before Lanfranc 's arrival shows that the monks were still giving a dramatic representation of the three women at the tomb searching for the risen Lord as laid down in the Regularis Concordia .
16 Since the CSA 1985 makes no direct provision for civil remedies we must first look to the common law and then to the recent advent of statute law in the area , as laid down in the Financial Services Act 1986 ( FSA ) by virtue of s.61 and s.62 .
17 There remains , however , the much more substantial argument that the GLC had exceeded its statutory powers as laid down in the Transport ( London ) Act 1969 .
18 He showed him how to make out his expenses chits , filling in ‘ Office duties , 5s. 6d. ’ for each day of the week , as laid down in the house agreement between union and management .
19 As laid down in the will that he had made on 29 April 1696 , revising an earlier one dated 13 July 1685 , in which his wife had been named as his sole heir , Howard 's estates were inherited by his only surviving child , Henry Charles Howard ( born 18 October 1668 ) ; from him they descended to his son , Charles Howard [ q.v. ] , who became tenth Duke of Norfolk in 1777 .
20 As laid down in the Mexico City agreement reached in September 1989 [ see p. 36890 ] , the first of a series of monthly meetings between high-level representatives of the government and the FMLN began in Costa Rica on Oct. 15-18 , with two bishops as mediators and with representatives of the UN and the Organization of American States ( OAS ) as observers .
21 Real growth of 3 per cent and an unemployment rate of 4.7 per cent were predicted , as were a reduction in the net budget deficit to 3.5 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) , with a long-term aim of a reduction to 2.5 per cent by 1992 as laid down in the SPÖ-ÖVP joint programme of 1987 [ see p. 35088 ] .
22 In the diplomatic arena , the coalition made it clear throughout the campaign that it would not be amenable to peace initiatives so long as the Iraqi leadership remained unprepared to accede unconditionally to the requirements as laid down in the successive UN Security Council resolutions .
23 Observer teams met on April 2 in Goma , Zaïre , under the aegis of the Organization of African Unity , as laid down in the ceasefire agreement signed between the government and rebels of the Rwanda Patriotic Front ( FPR ) in N'Sele , Zaïre , in mid-March [ see p. 38088 ] and formalised on March 29 .
24 Inclusion of the word " federal " , which the UK government insisted had connotations in English , if not in other EC languages , of a " superstate " was described by the Independent of June 18 as " effectively the price being demanded of Britain , incidentally also of France , for insisting between them that the two main new areas for common action — foreign and security policies and judicial affairs — should be kept separate from the traditional EC constitutional structure as laid down in the Treaty of Rome [ see pp. 15951-59 ] " .
25 These committees had been created on March 12 , under the auspices of the Interior Ministry and as laid down in the electoral law .
26 The left-wing Broad Left Frente Amplio and the PIT-CNT trade union confederation had in mid-February gathered the necessary signatures , as laid down in the Constitution , to call the special poll in their protracted campaign to protect state-sector employment [ see p. 38761 ] .
27 Alternative Bosnian Serb constitutional proposals based on the three-way subdivision of Bosnia-Hercegovina , as laid down in the March 1992 Lisbon agreement [ see p. 38832 ] with provision for joint foreign , defence and other policies , were presented to the Geneva conference on Nov. 19 .
28 The engineer makes decisions according to his or her powers and duties as laid down in the terms of the contract .
29 It was still widely agreed that , as laid down in the papal ranking of 1504 , the Holy Roman Emperor came first of all secular rulers , and this pre-eminence all emperors jealously guarded : it was only after considerable resistance that Ferdinand III ( 1637 – 57 ) agreed to address Louis XIV as " Majesté Royale " .
30 In the event of non-compliance , in English law , an action can be brought for breach of contract or tort up to six years after the date of the event , as laid down in the Limitation Act 1980. [ 1 ] Documents that originate through the existence of the contract and evidence the events arising under the contract should therefore be maintained for that six year period .
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