Example sentences of "stand at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone stands at one end of the pool , and when it is time to start I swim to the end of the pool and come back . |
| 2 | Ben Nevis stands at one end of the greatest mountain range in the Highlands , buttressing a grand array of ten Munros with altitudes above or near 4000 feet and forming an unbroken high skyline for several miles . |
| 3 | The box stands at one end of a parcel of land upon which there is a complete turnout and associated signals . |
| 4 | Everyone stands at one end of the room with their eggs in front of them on the floor . |
| 5 | Each team stands at one end of the room , in a line , one behind the other , facing the opposite end . |
| 6 | Inflation 's fallen again to a new thirty year low , and now stands at one point two percent , down from one point three percent . |
| 7 | It 's because payments are automatically linked to inflation , which now stands at one point eight per cent . |
| 8 | The church is built close to the edge of the bluff , which falls an overgrown eighty or ninety feet down into the wide bed of the gave or river ; and the view up or downstream is dignified further by the curtain wall of the medieval Tour Monréal , that stands at one corner of the small square in front of the church . |
| 9 | The number of people unemployed has risen for the twenty-second month in a row , the figure now stands at two point six , five million . |
| 10 | In some ways the social worker stands at special risk of prosecution . |
| 11 | Its magical chain is about 18ft long , allowing the Daemonette to reach the central stairwell and most of the half of the room in which the chair stands at any time ; when the adventurers arrive , the chair will be as shown on the map . |
| 12 | President , the whole economic af future of Tyneside stands at this minute in the balance . |
| 13 | The inflation rate has fallen to its lowest in twenty-five years to stand at one point seven per cent . |
| 14 | It was a ploy of Lord Darlington 's to stand at this shelf studying the spines of the encyclopedias as I came down the staircase , and sometimes , to increase the effect of an accidental meeting , he would actually pull out a volume and pretend to be engrossed as I completed my descent . |
| 15 | First , despite a brave attempt to encourage candidates to stand at last week 's annual general meeting , the council remains grossly under-represented . |
| 16 | Rusticated masonry arches stand at each end of the bridge , which is now used only for farm access . |
| 17 | ‘ Tell me about those three-storey houses that stand at each corner of the crossroads . |
| 18 | Making its debut on the Summerfield stand at this year 's British Music Fair was an attractive new range of acoustic guitars . |
| 19 | and you go and stand at those castle round parts and we went for a walk and there was a football match going on was n't there ? |
| 20 | One useful tip is that , towards the end when there are few chairs left , have two children or adults stand at either end of the room . |
| 21 | And something I have not seen anywhere else , though it makes good sense , is that in these mainly narrow streets , the shops have their signs strung out at right-angles across the way so that you can stand at one end and read their names from there , without having to go down to look at them one by one . |
| 22 | Then I think I read some of my favourite English poems — Hardy , Hopkins , Housman , Blake , Yeats , Edward Thomas , Wilfred Owen , and I think one each by Ted Hughes and Thom Gunn , the only contemporaries I could stand at that time . |
| 23 | As a constable at Easton explained , ‘ I could stand at that comer there and catch a hundred people breaking some law or other in one shift , no bother . |
| 24 | If there was a second ballot , new candidates could stand at that stage . |
| 25 | Old Lincolnshire folk claim that in the 1920 's one could stand at this point and see no less than sixteen windmills noiselessly at work . |
| 26 | Rodney was standing at one end of the table , a turquoise can in his hand . |
| 27 | Sara said that she was standing at that window when she noticed the light in the office . |
| 28 | So it was a , a , a firm of about a hundred years standing at that time . |
| 29 | Perhaps he had been standing at that spot , gazing out over the river towards the mountains or maybe with bowed head , grieving for his lover . |
| 30 | Standing at this window of his college he was shot at from Madgalen Bridge |