Example sentences of "stand a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bauen was the birthplace of the composer of the Swiss national anthem to whose memory there stands a small monument in the village . |
| 2 | But outside the main entrance stands a tall flagpole , at the top of which flies as large a sample of the Stars and Stripes as any patriot could hope for . |
| 3 | On Abbey Craig , overlooking Stirling 's fifteenth-century Old Bridge , now stands a tall monument designed by a local mason and completed in 1869 . |
| 4 | Any rock lying around on the frozen continent stands a good chance of being a meteorite as — the occasional ice-piercing mountain aside — there is nowhere else to come from but the heavens . |
| 5 | Mr Mayhew 's costs , well into seven figures , were funded by Cazenove , which now stands a good chance of recouping them from tax-payers . |
| 6 | DROPPED by Labour for his extremist views , Nellist , 39 , stands a good chance of embarrassing the party by securing re-election in his own right . |
| 7 | The Franks report cost £60 000 and stands a good chance of recovering some of that cost through sales of the report . |
| 8 | We have SO MANY GREAT PRIZES to give away , everyone stands a good chance of winning something ! |
| 9 | The president stands a good chance of surviving multi-party elections . |
| 10 | What is more , the incubation it needs is in any case one or two days less than that needed by its hosts ' chicks , so the young cuckoo stands a good chance of appearing before the legitimate chicks do . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And if your victim happens to be conveniently close to the edge of a tall cliff , by the time he 's bounced down a couple of hundred metres on to the rocks , he 'll be in such a mess that the injury from the blow stands a good chance of being overlooked . |
| 13 | As long as the basic construction of NiCad batteries has n't changed , I can see no justification for complete discharge and agree that it stands a good chance of being harmful . |
| 14 | He 's decided to come into motor sport and stands a good chance . |
| 15 | Behind the narrow sandy beach stands a sheer cliff of coral rock , seventy feet high . |
| 16 | The most astonishing aspect of the case was not that she had an understandable desire to disport herself in space , but that under the law as it stands a major general had to offer her an abject apology for the recruiting sergeant showing a welcome piece of common sense . |
| 17 | St. Trillo — On the foreshore at Rhos-on-Sea stands a tiny chapel , built over a holy well . |
| 18 | Follow the road from Florence , and just about two and a half miles before you reach the town of Greve , high on ups , stands a crenellated renaissance castle . |
| 19 | Its two-hundred-foot-high tower is surmounted by a dome on which stands a golden Virgin holding aloft the Christ-child . |
| 20 | Perched on top of the Central Criminal Court in London stands a golden statue . |
| 21 | The fully battened mainsail is loose-footed and stands a bold roach which has to brush past the backstay during a tack . |
| 22 | She stands a little distance away . |
| 23 | In one corner stands a silver-topped trolley with a pair of scalpels , a few scraps of dry skin , and some oddly-curved blunt metal spatulas . |
| 24 | On the north wall of the chancel of St Mary 's Church at Burford , Shropshire , stands a magnificent monument to Richard Cornwall ( d.1568 ) with his parents . |
| 25 | On the left side of the stance stands a gigantic gravestone of a block which has to be crossed . |
| 26 | His bill now goes forward for a second reading but stands a slim chance of becoming law . |
| 27 | Yet another of Woodchester 's mills , Rooksmoor , stands a short way downstream . |
| 28 | At Crowland in Lincolnshire stands a medieval bridge , stranded high and dry in the middle of the town . |
| 29 | In a Plinian eruption , it 's usually impossible to pin down the site of the vent exactly , since it stands a high chance of being obliterated or destroyed by the eruption itself . |
| 30 | Before the table stands a large armchair . |