Example sentences of "[pron] stand a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have SO MANY GREAT PRIZES to give away , everyone stands a good chance of winning something ! |
| 2 | If I stood a starving child before you , |
| 3 | In some such cases specific protection , in the form of import controls , subsidies or state purchasing , may be justified on socialist grounds , for instance if the industry is a struggling ‘ infant ’ with good future prospects ( ‘ good ’ , that is , in respect of the efficient satisfaction of social need ) , or even a struggling ‘ geriatric ’ which stands a good chance of reviving its fortunes through a thorough re-investment programme . |
| 4 | Its two-hundred-foot-high tower is surmounted by a dome on which stands a golden Virgin holding aloft the Christ-child . |
| 5 | In the second position the notes obtainable stand a semitone below the above , and so on through all the positions until the seventh position is reached , which stands a diminished 5th below the first : seventh position . |
| 6 | Break it to go round a planting bed , make a circle on which to stand a large plant pot or statue , or to give a paved area around a rotary clothes dryer . |
| 7 | Yanto was pointing across the valley to the next hill , on top of which stood a tall ancient tower with turreted ramparts . |
| 8 | She looked across to a bureau on which stood a framed certificate for TV Presenter of the Year Award . |
| 9 | Mildred decided to get to the chest of drawers , on which stood a small mirror , so that she could see just how small she was . |
| 10 | It consisted of a small oblong patch of mown but weedy grass , in the centre of which stood a small green flowerless shrub with dirty leaves . |
| 11 | Soon we reached the shrine , a car-park-like space beside the road in which stood a large glass tank containing a painted figure of Mary looking with pity on Jesus crucified . |
| 12 | This door led to a large entrance lobby , to the right of which stood a luxurious bathroom , while to the left was a range of built-in wardrobes . |
| 13 | The architect did not try to reproduce a mediaeval church with aisles and chancel but chose an octagon shape with one side designated as an ‘ east end ’ with a window under which stood a Holy Table . |
| 14 | As she did so , she noticed that the heath adjoining the road rose up to a small hill , on top of which stood an old and dilapidated windmill . |
| 15 | She stands a little distance away . |
| 16 | Er right so as I say it 's a lighthearted approach and on christian name terms and with that in mind would you detach one of these and just stick your name on so that at least if you do n't know then at some stage during the course you stand a good chance of getting to know each other because again the essence of this course is informality and talking . |
| 17 | Following this strategy you stand a good chance of getting what you need . |
| 18 | Or the Tuareg saying that ‘ if you walk in the desert you get sand in your shoes , ’ the aquatic equivalent being that if you go on the Scottish hills you stand a fair chance of being hammered . |
| 19 | ‘ Ca n't you stand a little teasing ? ’ |
| 20 | The presence of Capellan directors and Eladeldi police did not seem so oppressively dispiriting when you stood a good chance of killing yourself , if you pushed it . |
| 21 | It seemed to Preston that if you avoided being stabbed to death by terror gangs , you stood an even chance of being burned to death by sudden conflagration , or pushed on to the live line by a psychopath lurking among the rush-hour crowds , or struck down by a heart attack brought on by the extreme rage and frustration of trying to understand a platform announcement . |
| 22 | He searched the throng with his eyes from where we stood a good twenty paces away out in the station . |
| 23 | We stood a good few minutes in the entrance hall , and a gentleman came through and smiled , and someone said it was Billy Graham , Mr Wogan 's other guest . |
| 24 | To the right was another door ; beside this one stood a uniformed man in what looked like a Securicor outfit . |
| 25 | ‘ Outside one stood a penny-in-the-slot model of a jet workshop , made by my great uncle George Wood . |
| 26 | In its place there stands a new Ballistic Missile Defence Organisation which employs the same people to do the same things with the same money — $1.8 billion requested for the next year . |
| 27 | Bauen was the birthplace of the composer of the Swiss national anthem to whose memory there stands a small monument in the village . |
| 28 | Where the River Lovat flows out of Lake Ilmen and north to Lake Ladoga , there stood a great city with wooden walls . |
| 29 | There stood a grand piano and a BMW . |
| 30 | There stood a strong wooden house , big enough for forty people , and with holes for guns on every side . |