Example sentences of "the [noun pl] stand at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the reason why the shareholders had to wait so long for a return was that the original capital had been only 10,000 guineas , and the Company financed itself by fairly short-term loans from the merchants with which it did business , so the shareholders stood at the end of a long line of creditors but could expect substantial returns on their money in the end if the Company survived . |
| 2 | The state intervened in 1888 to establish the two separate types , which are both now relatively small : the bulls stand at 126–130cm and weigh about 750kg and the cows 118–124cm and 450kg . |
| 3 | Today the Danish Red is a large breed : the bulls stand at 155cm and weigh an average of 1,050kg , and the cows 137cm and 675kg . |
| 4 | There are two types : a smaller one in the mountains and a larger in the valleys ( the bulls stand at 141cm and weigh 800–1,200kg , the cows 130cm and 540–600kg ) . |
| 5 | ‘ As the rules stood at the time , the League had no choice but to order the game to be replayed over a full 90 minutes . |
| 6 | In August 1893 , the Vicar writes that funds for the new organ are not coming in very quickly , the funds standing at only £30 711 . |
| 7 | The funds stands at £3,000 . |
| 8 | I ate the biscuits in one go and walked on to the boat , climbing up the decks to stand at the back . |
| 9 | The trees stood at intervals down the Main Street and provided a meeting place for the villagers and presumably a resting place whilst they journeyed to Lowry Field at the bottom of the village , which had the communal St Laurence Well and provided water when all the house and farm wells were dry . |
| 10 | I told you I saw her in the mornings standing at the bus stop . |
| 11 | Leave the melons to stand at room temperature for 30 minutes and then cut into quarters , lengthways . |
| 12 | We saw three banks but Barclays left the others standing at the post . |
| 13 | At 194p , down 7p yesterday , the shares stand at a discount of 37.5 per cent to the net asset value expected for the end of this year . |
| 14 | The shares stand at 65p against a high for 1989 of 127p . |