Example sentences of "it stand [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the spire of the church could be saved , and today it stands as a stark reminder of that devastating night in August 1989 . |
| 2 | Rather it stands as a nasty addition this winter to the equation which leads to accidents year in , year out . |
| 3 | The ‘ thick description ’ takes on a type of metaphoric quality : it stands as a symbolic indication of some wider social meaning within the culture which is elicited through critical interpretation . |
| 4 | It stands as a sympathetic appraisal by a critic who is trusting largely to his own intuitive sense of quality : |
| 5 | Although it stands as an important account of new anthropological theory and purports to throw a revealing light on the social organisation of Balinese society , its carefully organised narrative is also a good story arranged so the shifts between Geertz 's account of his gradual development as an aficionado of cockfighting and the development of his theory of the social significance of this sport merge . |
| 6 | So what do you think about the overall situation as it stands at the present time ? |
| 7 | It stands on a small hill , higher than the other villas , with a private approach road and a large balcony looking out to sea . |
| 8 | It stands on a small mound at the junction of the two villages . |
| 9 | It stands on a rusticated arcade , the windows with their mullions and transoms still have their broken triangular pediments and the bays are divided with strapwork of Mannerist design . |
| 10 | It stands for a positive policy — Socialism at home and internationally " . |
| 11 | It stands in a small square , now some five feet below the present ground level , surrounded by cypress trees . |
| 12 | It stands in a charming enclave of similar houses in the heart of increasingly fashionable Deptford which has mercifully escaped the ravages of Sixties property developers and Seventies road schemes . |
| 13 | It stands in the pretty hill village of Crayke with magnificent views over the Vale of York , and the Dales . |
| 14 | These units could then be regarded as repeatedly subdivisible to the point that the final dimension is so minute that it stands in the same relation to the highest human capacity for feeling as does the single cell to the supreme achievement of cellular development , which is the physical human being . |
| 15 | It stands like a phallic exhortation to the newly-weds living around it , but was a hive of industry once , dating possibly from the seventeenth century . |
| 16 | Again he tried to make it stand with the thin box as the base and once again it fell over . |
| 17 | When Not-Flaubert spotted his name on the piece of cardboard I was holding , he simply stopped pushing the trolley , left it standing among the shoving airport crowd and walked towards Jeeta and his wife-to-be , Jamila . |
| 18 | Base rate was on Sept. 22 further reduced to 9 per cent ( its lowest level since mid-1988 and the first time since 1981 that it stood below the German Lombard rate ) . |
| 19 | It stood across the public road , separated from its pretty , early eighteenth-century house ; in addition to this geographical separation , house and garden each had a different owner . |
| 20 | As instructed , the building was largely three-storey , but it stood on a high basement and was dominated by a spiky ventilation tower centrally placed over the War Department . |
| 21 | It stood on a mossy hill , and was environed by an expanse of peat soil and many stacks of the dark-coloured fuel ; and in reaching it , many most forbidding sloughs had to be rounded and jumped over . |
| 22 | Poacher Marino Malerba , 35 , shot a stag dead as it stood on an overhanging rock in Trento , Italy . |
| 23 | Reports and returns relating to manpower were based on the position as it stood on the last day of the relevant month . |
| 24 | He called his future domicile Belmont , for it stood on the high ground , with a view sweeping down through the coconut palms to the shore where he had first landed that night he took possession . |
| 25 | In order to appreciate some of the present problems and the need for a reform , it is necessary to examine the pattern of local government as it stood before the 1972 act . |
| 26 | Originally it stood in a small church in Via San Pietrò which has long since disappeared , and was christened the ‘ Man of Stone ’ when it was repositioned . |
| 27 | It stood in a little square with dying trees around it . |
| 28 | The Tunisian government confirmed on Sept. 11 that , while it stood by the unanimous March 1990 Arab League decision to transfer the headquarters to Cairo [ see p. 37334 ] , the move to speed up the transfer " could hamper this body and prevent it from shouldering its responsibility " . |