Sentence examples for if it lays from inspiring English sources

(Unemployment insurance is paid for by taxes on business payrolls, and a company's rate can go up if it lays off a lot of people).

If it lays eggs not all of them will hatch.

Lay the board on level surface to see if it lays flat without arching or bowing.

Place the key on a very flat, solid surface, and observe if it lays flat or is arched up from the surface either at the ends or in the middle.

Fears are also stirring on the right since the government said it might talk to ETA if it laid down its weapons for good.Above all, the attacks point up how angry right-wingers are over the government's raft of social reforms.

Doctors had already discovered that it was good in medicines, making ointments emollient and calming colicky stomachs as if it laid a gentle, heavy hand on them.

Even if it laid the Home Secretary open to unpleasant sniping about not having children, such as Liz Kendall had disgracefully suffered during the Labour leadership contest.

Ben Carson said that he was ready to attack Russia if it laid a hand on Estonia ("Putin is a one-horse country: oil and energy").

If it laid an egg, I'd mark a plus on the board; if not, a minus, and after a while the poor ones were sold or eaten.

It was pleasing to see the film-maker stretching himself, even if it laid him open to accusations of cultural imperialism.

E. Charles Hunt, president of the local chapter of the New York Restaurant Association, said a drop of just 20percentt in sales could put a restaurant at risk, even if it laid off staff and cut purchases.