Sentence examples for base was laid from inspiring English sources

Yet an important base was laid down on which we can build a better future for the African continent.

English is sedimentary: on top of the Anglo-Saxon base was laid the French dialect of Norman conquerors, to which was then added the Latin coinages of Renaissance humanists.

A steel base was laid beneath the shed floor, and the entire building was wrapped in heavy-duty fiberglass, hoisted onto a flatbed truck and driven to Santa Barbara.

According to Albert C. Knudson, personalism is "the ripe fruit of more than two millenniums of intellectual toil, the apex of a pyramid whose base was laid by Plato and Aristotle".

And that is what this summer entails for England: not pretending that the horrors of last winter were a freakish malfunction, or hoping that Pietersen's absence will somehow never be brought up, but that a base is laid.

A gravel base and steel plank was laid to accommodate the fighters based at Tsili Tsili that were in danger of bogging down when the weather deteriorated.

A McDonald's cup was laid at the base of the fireplace.

In 1978, however, the first memorial tablet to the victims was laid at the base of Clifford's Tower, and in 1990 the 800th anniversary of the killings was commemorated at the tower.

Another egg was laid.

I was laid off..

Like all of the backing tracks hastily recorded at Compass Point Studios, Nassau, in a seemingly random discontinuous process in the summer of 1980, these base elements were laid down effectively blind by the band to Eno's direction.