Example sentences of "which stand [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have no bronze original which stands to the Hestia as the Zeus to the Apollo . |
| 2 | Alan Pugh is the secretary of another group of initials , BFICC , which stands for the British Facsimile Industry Consultative Committee . |
| 3 | The landlord of the Fox and Hounds in Cotherstone , which stands at the entrance of Baldersdale and was to become the front line headquarters for the film makers , scoffed at this idea . |
| 4 | Around the town centre the four medieval churches of St. Peter 's , St. Giles , St. John 's and Holy Sepulchre compliment the classical Church of All Saints which stands at the ‘ hub ’ of the town . |
| 5 | This is not to say that the world dictates the pattern for the Church to adopt , but to point out that the Church must be constantly examining itself to ensure that it is remaining true to the gospel and that the only barrier is the inescapable offence of the atoning message of the cross which stands at the centre of that gospel . |
| 6 | Another allegedly ‘ royal ’ tomb is the Great Tomb at Chrysolakkos , which stands at the northern edge of the Minoan town of Mallia , a little inland from the cliffed headland , and it is thought to have served as a family vault for Mallia 's royal family in the New Temple Period ( for instance , by Hood 1971 , p. 145 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | which stands at the edge of a demolition site . |
| 9 | Nevertheless the anthropologist 's favourite stamping ground , " the study of kinship " , becomes arid and thoroughly misleading if the anthropologist concerned ever allows himself to forget that the domestic household , which stands at the core of any kinship system when viewed from the inside , is a social machine for the production of the means of subsistence and the reproduction of human beings . |
| 10 | However , there is a place in social research , and a very important one , for the type of interview which stands at the other extreme to the structured one , namely the non-standardised interview . |
| 11 | The smaller T110 , which stands on the workbench and carves pieces up to 18in tall by 10in diameter ; low relief panels 10in wide and limitless length ; and spindles 36in long by 8in diameter . |
| 12 | On Saturday the two prelates attended a service of vespers at the Church of San Gregorio , which stands on the site where Pope Gregory sent St Augustine of Canterbury off to become the first Archbishop of Canterbury in 597 . |
| 13 | The Egyptians are asking for Cleopatra 's Needle , the great granite obelisk of 1500 BC which stands on the Thames embankment just a few yards from the Savoy . |
| 14 | The name ‘ Satis House ’ , however , CD took from that of another Rochester residence which stands on the site of the mansion of Richard Watts . |
| 15 | There is a very well-stocked general store incorporating the post office , a public house , the Bosville Arms , which stands on the site of a previous public house of several centuries ago , and a petrol station and garage . |
| 16 | Another listed building is the fine windmill which stands on the hill above the village and makes an outstanding local landmark . |
| 17 | which stands on the sideboard , |
| 18 | The village association committee runs the village hall which stands on the field . |
| 19 | And as the ship freed herself from the mule-lines and her screw began to chum up a wake of umber , sludgy water , and she picked up speed towards the marker buoys and the farewell beacon on Flamenco Island , I was sure I could see the seamen still , pointing their cameras back — now with long lenses all — towards the statue of Balboa which stands on the Panama City seafront , with the great man gazing out at the Ocean into which the Poles were now , at long last , sailing . |
| 20 | One night , early in February 1518 , the three of us were in a tavern called the Chariot , a cosy little ale house which stands on the corner of the Rue des Mineurs near the church of Saint Sulpice . |
| 21 | A.D. 130 , which stands on the summit of the acropolis city . |
| 22 | Only a force which stands outside the manoeuvring and hostility of the struggle can hope to make any headway in furthering a particular interest . |
| 23 | Having viewed the replacement external fresco and the church — although only through a haze of overhead tram wires — from the little square where Via Mazzini crosses Via Falcone and several other minor roads , go inside and see the real one which stands above the main altar , beneath Bramante 's masterly pseudo-apse . |
| 24 | A thirteenth century Cistercian doorway survives from the Klóšter Hradiště ( near Mnichovo Hradiště ) , now part of the walls of a modern building , while at the Benedictine Monastery at Sázava , which stands above the river of the same name , a tributary of the Vltava , the Gothic church was never completed and only part of the nave exists . |
| 25 | From here the path descends to the top of Summerhouse Crag which stands over the Llugwy Gorge . |
| 26 | The Lake House ( sometimes called the Orangery ) which stands in the grounds of Frampton Court , was almost certainly designed by William Halfpenny or his son John , who lived near Bristol in the 1740s . |
| 27 | The rowan tree ( Sorbus aucuparia ) or in Gaelic , which stands in the corner of the kitchen garden or just beyond the house or byre , has protected the home , the family and the cattle from witches and fairies for centuries , and has endured after many a homestead has been deserted . |
| 28 | It 's also alive with midges , which stands in the way of it being a Scottish Shangrila . |
| 29 | However , using indirect criteria in this way is no more reliable : one simply falls into a different trap , because the item which stands in the ‘ same ’ meaning relation in different contexts to the lexical form being tested may itself be ambiguous . |
| 30 | There is one and only one element which stands in the relation R to all the other members of the set ( if R is transitive ) , or which stands either in the relation R or some higher power of R to all the other members of the set ( if R is intransitive ) . |