Example sentences of "it stood [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Base rate was on Sept. 22 further reduced to 9 per cent ( its lowest level since mid-1988 and the first time since 1981 that it stood below the German Lombard rate ) . |
| 2 | It stood across the public road , separated from its pretty , early eighteenth-century house ; in addition to this geographical separation , house and garden each had a different owner . |
| 3 | It stood between the mountains and the Conway Valley . |
| 4 | It stood about a quarter of a mile from the house in a triple circle of beech trees , an isolated building so small and perfect that it looked like an architect 's model precisely set in a fabricated landscape , or an elegant ecclesiastical folly , justifying itself only by its classical purity , as distanced from religion as it was from life . |
| 5 | I thought you said the three grand as it stood without the M O T and anything |
| 6 | This city was the ancient Inca capital , and throughout Peru 's colonial period ( 1533-1824 ) it stood as a symbol of regional and ethnic opposition to Spanish rule from Lima . |
| 7 | For some time it stood as the seventh ‘ port ’ in the kingdom , despite the fact that its quays were some distance away ; its merchants had exclusive rights over trade in much of western Sussex for most of the later middle ages . |
| 8 | As instructed , the building was largely three-storey , but it stood on a high basement and was dominated by a spiky ventilation tower centrally placed over the War Department . |
| 9 | It stood on a mossy hill , and was environed by an expanse of peat soil and many stacks of the dark-coloured fuel ; and in reaching it , many most forbidding sloughs had to be rounded and jumped over . |
| 10 | It stood on a piece of waste ground beyond which tinkers left their carts during the day , when they were begging or doing casual work . |
| 11 | It stood on a little round table in front of the muslin-curtained window , and the long green plush sofa against the opposite wall bore the imprint of the length of the girl 's body as though she habitually lay there to watch it . |
| 12 | It stood on a corner , at the end of a terrace of four which had , Sybil explained as she put her key in the front door , replaced a large Victorian dwelling . |
| 13 | Poacher Marino Malerba , 35 , shot a stag dead as it stood on an overhanging rock in Trento , Italy . |
| 14 | The horse blew great jets of steam from its nostrils as it stood on the towpath , patiently waiting for them to board . |
| 15 | It stood on the corner of Page Street at the Jamaica Road end , and was the favourite haunt of folk from the surrounding backstreets . |
| 16 | It stood on the dressing table , among silver-topped bottles . |
| 17 | He called his future domicile Belmont , for it stood on the high ground , with a view sweeping down through the coconut palms to the shore where he had first landed that night he took possession . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Reports and returns relating to manpower were based on the position as it stood on the last day of the relevant month . |
| 20 | and it worked , and it got over to Australia , it got unpacked and it still worked when it got to Australia , and it went on the stand and it stood on the stand for a week or however long it was . |
| 21 | It stood for a ‘ state of blessedness ’ reserved for good people , prior to the resurrection at the last day . |
| 22 | Although only twenty-two houses were represented the syndicat recognised that it stood for the rights of some sixty Champagne houses , virtually the entire trade at the time . |
| 23 | It stood for the whole of Hoggatt 's Lab . |
| 24 | The ‘ Snap ’ camera was used with the supplied software , ( not suitable as it stood for the required measuring instrument ) . |
| 25 | Late in 1949 , it was decided that Thornton Heath depôt with its narrow entrance and awkward shape , would be quite unsuitable to convert as it stood to a bus garage . |
| 26 | It was also full of daylight : the angle at which it stood to the water had made it impossible to see from the islet , as I now saw , that the doors were open . |
| 27 | In 1979/80 the expenditure per student in polytechnics was 82 per cent of that in the universities : by 1987/88 per capita expenditure in the polytechnics had fallen to 58 per cent of the university figure and by 1989/90 it stood at a little over 50 per cent . |
| 28 | It stood at an angle behind the Alexandra Hotel near the bottom of Great Horton Road , tucked away on the curve of Randall Well Street . |
| 29 | It stood at the north end of Duke Street , flanked by the park on its north and west sides , and was designed by Soane in 1829 . |
| 30 | It will consider , first of all , the state of the finance function as it stood at the end of 1988 , and assess what changes had recently taken place , what were in progress and what further developments could logically have been anticipated . |