Example sentences of "[noun sg] stand on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The disqualification stands on the proposition that , where there is no market so that the user can not by taking his custom elsewhere , discipline the provider , it is wrong to adopt any form which creates a right and duty to use the monopoly so as to satisfy the interests of an exclusive group of owners , as against those of the users . |
| 2 | Back room stage so small the performers have to rest their mike stands on the floor in front . |
| 3 | The Moebius Strip stands on the southern bank of the Grand Canal about a kilometre along from the Baratha Arcade , between the Church of the Directed Panspermia and a crustacean restaurant . |
| 4 | The monument stands on the first cross-roads in front of the Carmel Road entrance to West Cemetery . |
| 5 | A friendly , family-run hotel in the popular resort of San Bartolomeo al Mare , the Bergamo stands on the main road close to the sea and within walking distance of the picturesque , hill-top village of Cervo . |
| 6 | Where did that pleasure stand on the scale against the misery of a man in the Kitchen whose soup was spilled , whose bread was soggy from the floor 's snow water ? |
| 7 | However , a priest stood on the floor of the parliament and refused to yield before being allowed to speak . |
| 8 | They discovered the manor stood on the site of a medieval castle ‘ the lost palace ’ of Llywelyn Fawr ( Llewelyn the Great ) and his son , Llywelyn , the last Welsh prince . |
| 9 | When she went back to the kitchen Penry 's tray stood on the counter , the plates satisfactorily empty . |
| 10 | The significance of the Carmelite school has been greatly exaggerated because of the widespread misunderstanding that the Carmelite Whitefriary stood on the site of the hospital , an important monastic site with a splendid fourteenth-century gate . |
| 11 | A rampant cheese-plant stands on the landing ; there are bottles of Czech Budweiser in the wine rack ; Highgate Tube is a fifteen-minute , uphill yomp away . |
| 12 | This little mill stands on the Washbrook . |
| 13 | Today , the mill stands on the site of a busy gravel pit , and is surrounded on several sides by large mounds of gravel . |
| 14 | THE LACE HALL stands on the edge of the lace market , once the hub of the industry . |
| 15 | The Stamford and Rutland Infirmary stands on the site of the Franciscan Greyfriars and was endowed by Henry Fryer , surgeon , in 1828 . |
| 16 | To the small child standing on the dockside waving goodbye it was a minor bereavement every time . |
| 17 | whether the girl standing on the opposite side of Highgate Hill ( or Highgate West Hill ) with the long dark hair blowing forwards over her shoulder will turn so that he can see her face ; and if so , whether the face will be the revelation that the long dark hair promises ; and what a face would have to be like to be the revelation that one always expects … |
| 18 | whether the girl standing on the opposite side of the crossroads , with her face hidden by the long dark hair falling over her shoulders as she waits to cross the road , head turned to watch the oncoming traffic , will look straight ahead so that he can see her face : and if so , whether it will fulfil his hopes ; and whether the fulfilment of his hopes would in itself be a kind of disappointment . |
| 19 | Aston Villa , but they 're t , first division though , empty net , there 's a bloke standing on the line , how can it be empty , let's have a look oh Woking lost , Leicester did n't play tonight , no |
| 20 | It becomes easier to sympathize with the behaviour of the diminutive parent standing on the back of its monstrous child . |
| 21 | Walking back to the end of the train , he found the guard standing on the track beside his brakevan . |
| 22 | Then it was the boy stood on the burning decks . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've brought you a few things , ’ she said , glancing back to where her basket stood on the floor . |
| 24 | Some hearths were simply butted up against the surround , whilst in other designs , the surround stood on the hearth . |
| 25 | There is a human characteristic that we like to think , see things in , in very clear cut ways and you 're saying we should n't go overboard and just think that Boris Yeltsin because of his courage standing on the tank and , and helping to prevent the coup , we should n't go overboard and think that he 's er the most marvellous human liberal democrat who ever walked the earth . |
| 26 | A half-empty bottle of red wine stood on the telephone table and he picked it up and drank from it with his left hand as he lifted the receiver with his right . |
| 27 | The drapers ' shop stood on the pavement opposite . |
| 28 | The statue of the Virgin stands on the altar in front of this ; her face is in shadow . |
| 29 | ‘ The way we sex a grape , or vineyard , in New Zealand , ’ he began , ‘ to ensure that there is the right amount of grape exposed to the sunlight , is to ask a friend to stand on the other side of the vine . |
| 30 | Examples would be : where the act is not seen , as when the victim is asleep ; where the victim believes that the gun was unloaded ( Lamb [ 1967 ] 2 QB 981 ) ; where the victim knows by the accused 's words that the threat will not take place ( Tuberville v Savage ( 1669 ) 86 ER 684 ; or where the accused could not put his threat into effect : the usual illustrations are shaking a fist while on a non-stop train at a person standing on the platform and doing the same to a person standing on the opposite bank of a fast-flowing and wide river where there is no bridge . |