Example sentences of "stand at the head of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The key to Bigorre , geographically , is Lourdes , which stands at the head of the valley of the Gave de Pau , at a point where the river makes a sudden lunge to the west having long ago found its way north blocked by moraine . |
| 2 | SCENE : The Dining-Room — Eight Months Later Pa stands at the head of the table . |
| 3 | ‘ But its situation , ’ continues Johnson , ‘ seems well chosen for pleasure , if not for strength ’ ; and then in half a sentence he gives us a glimpse of local life and activity : ‘ It stands at the head of the lake and , by a sloop of sixty tuns , is supplied from Inverness with great convenience ’ — which description immediately conjures the vessel plying up and down Loch Ness with provisions , armaments , soldiers ' wives . |
| 4 | Rore properly stands at the head of this roll-call , above all for his madrigals which are both artistically and historically more important than his generally rather conservative Masses and motets . |
| 5 | In the hall she would put on her hat and , lulling all suspicions of decay and its mortifications to rest in the conviction of her own economical and resourceful genius , with Gigi on her shoulder , she would stand at the head of the basement staircase screaming ( Gigi would scream too ) for Silly-Willie and Brigid to come and take her instructions and give their assistance while she created some nauseating delicacy for Dada 's dinner . |
| 6 | Anthea Darnell , a tall dark stalagmite , was standing at the head of the table , with professor St John Goth on her immediate right . |
| 7 | Clearwell Castle , Gloucestershire ( c .1728 ) is a unique building , with no affinity either to the contemporary medievalizing modes of Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor [ qq.v. ] or to the subsequent rococo Gothic of William Kent [ q.v. ] ; while Inveraray Castle , by contrast , was to be another immensely influential creation , standing at the head of a whole series of castle-style houses throughout the eighteenth century . |
| 8 | But now they were standing at the head of a deep valley in the moor with their ears and tails down . |
| 9 | Himmler was standing at the head of the great table flanked by Rossman and Berger . |
| 10 | All Scottish sources of the period are full of descriptions of the actions of great men being taken with their ‘ kin , friends , allies , partakers , men and servants ’ ; that is , the nobles and greater lairds stood at the head of closely united and sometimes very extensive affinities . |
| 11 | Hundreds of people were there and I only saw the Queen at the beginning when she came out with Prince Philip and the Queen Mother and stood at the head of the terrace whilst a band played the National Anthem . |
| 12 | She stood at the head of the small table , waiting for her son and daughter to seat themselves on either side of her and then sat down . |
| 13 | It had long been held as a general axiom — quite incorrectly , as Catalonian experience showed — that entail caused a régime of short , unstable leases and once again stood at the head of the estorbos , the impediments to progress . |
| 14 | A male and a female who stood at the head of the profession have died lately , and it is supposed their places shall not be filled . " |
| 15 | A male and a female who stood at the head of the profession have died lately , and it is supposed their places shall not be filled . " |
| 16 | The fertile combination of theory and practice was his own , however , and he stood at the head of a great group of people working on the new phenomena of electricity . |