Example sentences of "[vb -s] at [art] [noun] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His bust , crowned with fresh bay leaves , presides at the side of the stage , and if he is looking down from Valhalla , let us hope he is pleased to be proved wrong . |
| 2 | The key to Bigorre , geographically , is Lourdes , which stands at the head of the valley of the Gave de Pau , at a point where the river makes a sudden lunge to the west having long ago found its way north blocked by moraine . |
| 3 | SCENE : The Dining-Room — Eight Months Later Pa stands at the head of the table . |
| 4 | ‘ But its situation , ’ continues Johnson , ‘ seems well chosen for pleasure , if not for strength ’ ; and then in half a sentence he gives us a glimpse of local life and activity : ‘ It stands at the head of the lake and , by a sloop of sixty tuns , is supplied from Inverness with great convenience ’ — which description immediately conjures the vessel plying up and down Loch Ness with provisions , armaments , soldiers ' wives . |
| 5 | The village stands at the terminus of the great trench occupied by the inland Loch Maree , the river forming a link . |
| 6 | Here the now extensive Lightpill Mill site stands at the confluence of the Nailsworth Stream with a smaller one that runs down from Rodborough Hill . |
| 7 | A substantial 18th century house known as Magnolia and formerly as the New House , stands at the top of The Narrows . |
| 8 | ‘ We have a saying in my country , ‘ for him who stands at the top of the tower there is no other season but winter . ’ |
| 9 | The Shipman 's Tale stands at the beginning of the second largest fragment of the Tales , fragment VII by the conventional numbering , a fragment which is consistently found in reliable manuscripts immediately after a fragment VI that includes the Physician 's and the Pardoner 's Tales . |
| 10 | which stands at the edge of a demolition site . |
| 11 | Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin stands at the edge of a relatively small , distinctive subset of irreverent fabliaux , fabliaux which powerfully exploit the inherent realism of the genre by reducing the characters and setting of the Christian heaven to a comically mundane and very human level : Heaven and Hell become just two alternatives amongst the familiar loci of the fabliaux . |
| 12 | A labourer 's cottage that still stands at the edge of the former wood was a one bay dwelling , open to the rafters , built by John Hughes in the 1580s and enlarged by the Hanmers during the seventeenth century . |
| 13 | As this new world takes shape , America stands at the centre of a widening circle of freedom — today , tomorrow and into the next century … |
| 14 | It is the majestic rise of the working-class movement which , for Soviet historians , stands at the centre of the pre-war stage . |
| 15 | The Bank of England stands at the centre of the UK financial system . |
| 16 | Angelica Venetz stands at the rail of the restaurant 's terrace . |
| 17 | It stands at the crest of the hill , which falls away to Queen Mary Boulevard , North Montreal and Saint-Hubert . |
| 18 | Nicholas Luard and the other members of the group were particularly concerned about the planting of conifers at Bara Ceirch farm as it stands at the headwaters of the Rivers Cothi and Towy , two of the finest salmon rivers in Wales . |
| 19 | If someone stands at the front of the play , at the front of the stage and says , you know , I believe in democracy , then you know you are let into a political play , yeah . |
| 20 | It stands at the culmination of a sequence of recent monographic exhibitions devoted to individual artists , Ansaldo , Castiglione , Fiasella , and it has benefited from the explosion of scholarly interest within the city , much of the fruit of which has been published by Sagep Editrice . |
| 21 | The timbered Untertor , crowned by its clock within a triangular roof , stands at the end of a narrow street . |
| 22 | A granite memorial to these Groups stands at the end of the former main runway . |
| 23 | The tower stands at the point of a great confluence of the coursing magical energies of the vortex , a fact that lends it a greater strength than any creation of mere bricks and mortar . |
| 24 | An early signpost , pre-dating Telford 's improvement of the Holyhead Road in 1811 , stands at the junction of the A49 and B4368 . |
| 25 | PARKER 'S STORES , once a smithy , stands at the junction of the ancient Priest 's Way and the High Street . |
| 26 | I have noticed small mites and flatworms at the front of the tank . |
| 27 | Although the programme finishes at the end of the month , head gardener Carole is still thinking ahead and planning for future displays . |
| 28 | Over to you ! sections at the end of every issue offer ideas for project work . |
| 29 | If one looks at a map of the line , bridge No 352 carried the country road from Rothley plain to Swithland village , beneath the line at Swithland sidings . |
| 30 | It was thought that Green took his large prepared copper plates out into the landscape and worked on them in front of the actual view , but when one looks at a print of a recognisable location the image is not reversed as would have been the case if a direct drawing onto the plate had been made from nature . |