1.   This would amount to a breach of their contract of employment and lay them open to disciplinary proceedings.

2.   Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, as Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, lay open the Watergate affair.

3.   The fetal shark lay split open on the dissecting tray, like a clay toy steeped in formaldehyde.

4.   When they pay their money, boxing fans know that they lay themselves open to the risk of sudden and sometimes mystifying disappointment.

5.   Warlords who violated the interdiction would lay themselves open to being accused of war-crimes.