Example sentences of "[noun] stand in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mare stands in the rain , cold and shivering , with no thought of going into the comfortable stable that is in her yard . |
| 2 | A gilt harp stands in the bay window . |
| 3 | TIME has run out for the Angus family whose cottage stands in the way of a multi-million pound dual carriageway on the Dundee to Aberdeen road , writes James Rougvie . |
| 4 | However , some 300 members of the National Peasants ' Party staged a march on Jan. 7 through the centre of Bucharest in memory of those killed by the Securitate during the revolution and to protest against the NSF decision to stand in the elections . |
| 5 | Cinderford stands in the heart of the forest of dean , an unemployment blackspot . |
| 6 | The attendant said there was a gentleman already undressing in No. 1 Frederica received no answer to her question about numéro sept , but was given permission to stand in the corridor of the train , which was already sliding away from its platform . |
| 7 | But this is not a time for personal pride and stubborn resistance to stand in the way of the cold , hard facts of life . |
| 8 | His statue stands in the delightful Place Royale , above the possessive caption of ‘ Lou Nouste Henric ’ , or ‘ Our Henry ’ in the local Gas con patois . |
| 9 | The historic past is a reference to Alexander Wilson , a Paisley weaver , poet and famous ornithologist , whose statue stands in the Abbey grounds . |
| 10 | The defender stands in the ready position ( yoi ) , awaiting the impending attack . |
| 11 | In principle , it seems unjust that a homicide conviction should not be possible in such a case , if all the other elements can be established and only the ‘ year and a day ’ rule stands in the way . |
| 12 | A trade union to my mind stands in the same position . |
| 13 | Within minutes of the result being known , Mrs Thatcher ( still in Paris ) had announced her intention to stand in the second ballot and Hurd , with her in Paris , had declared that she continued to have his full support . |
| 14 | The house was used as a workplace , both by the woman who is preparing vegetables and whose spinning wheel stands in the background , and by the shoemaker , whose tools and materials hang to the right of the fire . |
| 15 | At the base of the rapid , a huge rock stands in the middle of the channel . |
| 16 | The party has 310 candidates standing in the general election and aims to ‘ create a disease-free , crime-free , pollution-free society — Heaven on Earth ’ . |
| 17 | None of the three Conservative candidates standing in the area for the first time was elected . |
| 18 | Further withdrawals by Maronite and other candidates standing in the second round were reported , and Assad Shaftari , deputy leader of the Al-Waad party , withdrew his candidature for the seat in Beirut reserved for the Orthodox Christians . |
| 19 | They were posing for just such a photocall at Klosters in February 1986 , when the photographers suddenly noticed another figure standing in the background , dressed in a Davy Crockett-style fur headband . |
| 20 | She was so busy thinking about the people upstairs that she did not see the figure standing in the shadows of the kitchen doorway . |
| 21 | Only as the car approached them did Ludens think he glimpsed a figure standing in the shade under a tree . |
| 22 | A man had suddenly emerged out of the blinding iridescence of the mist , a vague figure standing in the middle of the road with his back towards us . |
| 23 | Again the lightning lit the sky , and I saw a huge figure standing in the rain . |
| 24 | I saw a huge figure standing in the rain . |
| 25 | There was a figure standing in the corner by an open window . |
| 26 | There was a large , silver scent bottle with a jewelled neck standing in the midst of all the debris . |
| 27 | These it uses to stun its prey and the discharge is so powerful that it is quite sufficient to knock over a horse standing in the shallows . |
| 28 | ‘ I saw one soldier standing in the road . |
| 29 | She tried to put him out of her mind while she drove along and had almost succeeded when she pulled up outside the surgery and saw a car standing in the yard . |
| 30 | Bobby Gillespie was right when he told me , ‘ I used to go stand where all the young kids stood in the corner . |