Example sentences of "stand on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The church stands on the highest point in the village . |
| 2 | To frame a happy picture , a timber clubhouse of imposing Swedish design stands on the highest point , a monument to local golfing aspirations . |
| 3 | The monument stands on the first cross-roads in front of the Carmel Road entrance to West Cemetery . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It stands on the slight and indefinite watershed at the head of Glen Shiel and has its own group of Munros in the high country dividing it from Glen Affric to the north . |
| 6 | At that time the square was bigger , with the palazzo standing at its centre , and the northern limit being the Palazzo Giureconsulti which now stands on the far side of Via Mercanti . |
| 7 | These ridges have been built with considerable rapidity for Camber Castle stands on the innermost ridge , although , when it was constructed in 1538–9 , it stood on the ridge next to the sea . |
| 8 | ‘ that , on general principles , an injury transmitted from the actor to a person through his own organic substance , or through his mother , before he became a person , stands on the same footing as an injury transmitted to an existing person through other intervening substances outside him … |
| 9 | The stricken coach now stands on the hard shoulder of the M two having been lifted up the embankment by a heavy crane . |
| 10 | This friendly hotel stands on the bustling main street of traffic-free Taormina . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | That is why the man with binoculars stands on the opposite side of the road . |
| 13 | Since the opening of the Torpoint turnpike , around 1820 , it has been Sheviock that now stands on the main thoroughfare . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | John Rymouth stands on the 20 foot single piece , arched stone bridge across a mountain stream and points to the Cylopean walls discovered on a hill top in the Rennes valley |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | Where the burrows are located in a bank it is necessary for the gun to stand on the all-round vision requires one gun on each side of it — and each man needs to know exactly where the other man is standing . |
| 18 | ‘ I always have to stand on the bottom panel . |
| 19 | Phoebe had to stand on the cold and excessively clean linoleum floor , far away from the fitted carpets and deep leather chairs of the waiting area . |
| 20 | Your reward , which you may decide to turn down when eventually it is offered to you , is to stand on the vertiginous suspension bridge which was strung between the two sides of the gorge here in 1920 . |
| 21 | He had offered the car to Hubert for the summer on condition that everyone promised never to stand on the running boards , because they were threatening to fall off . |
| 22 | You stand on the flat tray which they call a seat , take the weight on your arms on the sides of the cockpit and lower your feet into the nose cone . |
| 23 | I want the clouds sweeping over the stubble when I creep and stand on the front steps after reading all night , and our owls hoot , and everyone 's sleeping upstairs , sleeping sound , in quiet bedrooms . |
| 24 | I therefore challenge candidates of all parties to state clearly and publicly where they stand on the chronic and continuous underfunding of a service which is increasingly being asked to undertake more and more duties . |
| 25 | I get about thirty quid if you stand on the right corner . |
| 26 | But we are a few guys , not interested in politics , who will play golf with anybody as 50 per cent individuals and 50 per cent representatives of our country because when you stand on the 1st tee , they call … |
| 27 | The nine cairns stand on the northern rim of the broad ridge named Nine Standards Rigg and command an uninterrupted and comprehensive view of many miles of the valley of the Eden . |
| 28 | Stand on the top step . ’ |
| 29 | The light above the front door was switched off , and a cleaner emerged from the theatre with a black plastic bag of rubbish and a broom , and began to brush the foyer , ignoring Jude — who was the last visible occupant — until he reached her , when he gave her a glance of such venom she decided to put up her umbrella and stand on the darkened step . |
| 30 | Lydia Becker , a leading Victorian feminist , compared the position of middle class women unfavourably with that of working class women : ‘ What I most desire , is to see married women of the middle classes stand on the same terms of equality as prevail in the working classes and the highest aristocracy . |