Example sentences of "it stood [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 ) .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Poacher Marino Malerba , 35 , shot a stag dead as it stood on an overhanging rock in Trento , Italy .
6 Reports and returns relating to manpower were based on the position as it stood on the last day of the relevant month .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 It stood in a little square with dying trees around it .
11 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 " .
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