Example sentences of "stood at the head of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . " |
| 6 | 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 . " |
| 7 | 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 . |