Example sentences of "[noun] which stood [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rollers for the pump flat-rods or chains , and the winding chain , were positioned at intervals up the incline to a pivot and a wheel at the tunnel mouth , then along the tunnel to a balance-bob which stood on a platform cut out specially , and the winding chain over a heavy sheaved wheel above the shaft . |
| 2 | Aquitaine was then surrounded on all sides ( except the sea coast ) by fiefs which stood in a more immediate relationship to the Capetians than ever before . |
| 3 | Cathy picked up the telephone which stood on a side table . |
| 4 | In 1913 Malevitch , whose work at this period showed traces of both Cubist and Futurist influence , was preparing to launch the Suprematist movement which stood for a more purely abstract style than anything yet seen . |
| 5 | a nationalism which stood upon a critique of the very idea of civil society , a movement supported by the bourgeoisie which rejected the idea of progress , the ideology of a political organisation fighting for the creation of a modern national State which accepted at the same time the ideology of ‘ enlightened anarchy ’ . |
| 6 | She lay on her back on a wooden trestle table which stood under a palm leaf awning in the shady corner of a broad courtyard in the Place of Healing . |