Example sentences of "that stand [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most people who have travelled through the Monkton district of Ayrshire will have noticed the monument that stands on the high ground behind the Dutch House Caravan Park , and wondered what it is and why it is there . |
| 2 | Lutyens designed and Cartier made the clock of gold and blue enamel that stands on the chimney piece . |
| 3 | From the tarn , I followed my nose down to a cairn that stands on the shoulder above Deepdale Side where the view down Deepdale into Dentdale was so good that I sat and looked at it for a good half-hour until the thought that I needed to be home by late afternoon pushed me on down to the green lane of the old Craven Way . |
| 4 | Cartographic logic suggests it was in fact an isolated hill that stands above the headwaters of the Rio Congo — an unspectacular 1,800 ft-high hillock , somewhat denuded of trees , a short distance away from a rudimentary track ( made by wild pigs , or cattle , or perhaps by people long ago ) which can still be discerned in the jungle . |
| 5 | Second , crime is accepted to be a legal category — no attempt is being made to propose , as we saw some positivists tried to do , that we can arrive at some more objective conception that stands above the acts of human deliberation that constitute the process of legal definition . |
| 6 | In all of the stories of enchantment and in all of the legends of bewitchment , there is one that stands above the rest . |
| 7 | In Stanley Park , there is a solitary rock that stands in the inlet , like a sentinel , a few feet off Prospect Point . |
| 8 | Adam Sedgwick , whose life is commemorated in a fine book by Colin Speakman and in a memorial fountain of Shap granite that stands in the main street , is Dent 's most famous son . |
| 9 | The strange , fixed weather vane that stands in the lee of the vicarage at Rennes-le-Chateau . |
| 10 | It is impossible to discover the actual occurrence that stands behind the individual accounts . |
| 11 | There 's a remarkably fat one that stands by the nearby shellfish stall . |
| 12 | A bright , consistent record , it showcases Dando 's newly-honed knack of tossing of unforgettable , brilliantly gauche two-minute perfect pop songs , along with a couple of awesomely beautiful country vignettes — ‘ My Drug Buddy ’ and ‘ Hannah And Gabi ’ — that stand as the best he 's written . |
| 13 | Vote for Huggett ( 1948 ) , for example , shows the family patriarch played by Jack Warner making a stand against a corrupt local councillor , then with the he of the local youth club and three eccentric old ladies , exposing the property transactions that stand in the way of a lido and public garden being built to serve the local community . |
| 14 | Picking up the tray , she carried it out to the kitchen and put the kettle on the small bottled-gas stove that stood beside the huge , cold , black range . |
| 15 | Barbara Molland had found the box in a trunk that stood under the window in Kate 's room . |
| 16 | He leaned against the radiator that stood under the window . |
| 17 | The Leeds manager would never have been given air time on general football matters as he was always perceived as someone who was fronting an organisation that stood for the worst things in football . |
| 18 | Coffee had been brought in a huge white porcelain pot and matching white cups arranged around the white-painted table that stood at the edge of a huge paved terrace overlooking the endless sparkling blue sea . |
| 19 | Radnor Park , Mount Blow , the Holy City were blasted by incendiaries , and a solitary ME 109 flew up Kilbowie Road strafing the tram that stood on the swing bridge by the canal . |
| 20 | He told her Great-Uncle Hilbert 's ashes were the contents of an urn-shaped Crown Derby sweets-jar that stood on the drawing-room mantelpiece . |
| 21 | Already she had inspected the house that stood on the edge of the sea loch . |
| 22 | After an hour he came to a small roadside inn that stood on the crest of a shallow hill and , twisting in his saddle , he saw that the inn gave him a good view of the road right to the horizon so that he would see any French pursuit long before it represented any danger . |
| 23 | Lucy crawled out of bed around lunchtime , found her way up to the shower while Josie could be heard moving around in the kitchen , and could n't resist leaving aside her own hard soap and supermarket shampoo in order to freeload a few squirts and squeezes of the gels , mousses and lotions that stood on the tiled windowsill . |
| 24 | ‘ Do n't bully me with your logic and your jargon , Tom ! ’ snapped Faye , reaching automatically for the brimming glass of sweet juice that stood on the small table beside her . |
| 25 | A maintenance man , with a garden fork and wheelbarrow , was tending the herbaceous border that stretched along the frontage of the flats and , in response to Morse 's question , he said he was one of a small team that looked after the three blocks of flats that stood on the eastern side of Water Eaton Road . |
| 26 | She had thought the department store that stood opposite the theatre unassailable in its pale-green elegance . |
| 27 | Some tanned the leather in season , or boiled down hoof and horn in the great vats that stood inside the ramshackle building of the tannery itself . |
| 28 | All that stood in the way of victory was a touch of bad luck . |
| 29 | Her heart was still at Framlingham Hall , the house that stood in the shadow of the great castle with thirteen towers , built by Roger Bigod in the year 1177 . |
| 30 | It was a big room with a high , moulded ceiling and a draped bed that stood in the middle of it like a throne . |