11.   Legislation was laid before Parliament last spring, banning the sale of handguns.

12.   To speak to oneself is to speak without constraint, to draft a minute which will be laid before a minister who will never read it.

13.   A more daunting task was laid before Jacobs.

14.   But their opportunity is laid before them.

15.   Hazed patients should be identified and made to feel safe, their injuries documented and legal options laid before them.

16.   He laid before the House the rejected treaty, together with all the correspondence and documents that had previously been made available to the Senate.

17.   Indeed, that charge is among the German human rights abuses that Scientologists have laid before a panel of the United Nations.

18.   It takes its time, but tantalizes, drawing us in as it lays before us the pieces of an increasingly enthralling puzzle.

19.   Nothing unconstitutional can of course be laid before the people, though the people can change the Constitution if they wish.

20.   The Chinese share their good fortune with the gods, so offerings of pigs, chickens, oranges and other produce are laid before the altar.