Example sentences of "it stands in the " in BNC.

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1 It stands in the open and can be left unused for some time and is then required in a hurry !
2 These units could then be regarded as repeatedly subdivisible to the point that the final dimension is so minute that it stands in the same relation to the highest human capacity for feeling as does the single cell to the supreme achievement of cellular development , which is the physical human being .
3 It stands in the pretty hill village of Crayke with magnificent views over the Vale of York , and the Dales .
4 Most would agree that the professed raison d'être of the CpSU is the creation of a society ‘ of a new type ’ ; the basis of its claim to infallibility is that it stands in the vanguard of this process .
5 And it has to make up its mind where it stands in the matter of the European Community .
6 It stands in the heart of Munich and offers 100 rooms , all with an en-suite bath or shower/WC , telephone , minibar , plus colour TV with video channel .
7 A round , gradual , shallow cone , the Hillock has , at first sight , no context : it stands in the middle of a field , growing scrabby grass , an egregious lone breast .
8 The first chord would sound lamentably thin if laid out as it stands in the original , and the last two would be hopelessly thick and stodgy if literally transcribed .
9 The tuba can play the whole passage as it stands in the original ( in the bottom octave , of course ) .
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