Example sentences of "it stood on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Poacher Marino Malerba , 35 , shot a stag dead as it stood on an overhanging rock in Trento , Italy . |
| 4 | Reports and returns relating to manpower were based on the position as it stood on the last day of the relevant month . |
| 5 | 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 . |