Example sentences of "[noun] stand [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sandaway stands on a low cliff at the very edge of the ocean with breathtaking sea views . |
| 2 | One building stands as a lone design example in the middle of a prepared expensive living area . |
| 3 | First , implicature stands as a paradigmatic example of the nature and power of pragmatic explanations of linguistic phenomena . |
| 4 | But she was always adored by the British public , especially the people of Swindon , where a statue stands as a permanent memorial . |
| 5 | It is an idol , a false , man-made attempt at redefining God , and its position at the very heart of the Craft , as the innermost secret , simply serves to show how freemasonry stands on a spurious foundation . ’ |
| 6 | The Eibenstein stands on a small hill in its own lovely park and garden , yet it is right in the middle of this bustling resort . |
| 7 | North of the Border , a balance between those architects expecting a rise and those expecting a fall in workloads in the next six months stands at a dismal minus 19 per cent . |
| 8 | The nine-foot figure stands at a new development in Dockwray Square , North Shields , Stan Laurel 's home for 10 years . |
| 9 | A set of syntagmatic relations can be based on the results of putting grammatically appropriate lexical units together in a construction ( all the lexical units standing in a particular syntagmatic relation to another lexical unit are , of course , specific to particular constructions , or sets of constructions ) . |
| 10 | A distorting witch-ball the size of a football stood in a wooden fruit bowl on the sideboard , in the middle of a mute congregation of bottles of tomato ketchup , salad cream , H.P. Sauce , Daddies Favourite sauce and Okay fruit sauce , all with dried dribbles running down their sides . |
| 11 | The headless trunk stood for a long second , the blood fountaining in a gush of scarlet from the raw stump of its neck , before collapsing bonelessly to the mat . |
| 12 | A grey , unsightly concrete church with a steeple like an upraised sword stuck through the roof stood beside a futuristic glass pavilion with rows of outdoor benches for apparition-watchers . |
| 13 | The flat figure stood on a small base as if ready to be moved round a board like a chessman . |
| 14 | By 1235 , the whole question of forgery stood on a new moral and legal footing , and the corporate ambitions of the monks fell to the ground in a blaze of scandal . |
| 15 | The ANC stands for a new South Africa , a South Africa in which racism shall be a thing of the past , where human dignity and equality shall prevail in the life of the country and its people , where the goals enshrined in the Freedom Charter shall be transformed into a living reality . |
| 16 | In Masterman 's view , the Battle of Orgreave stands as a salutary reminder that ‘ what is omitted from television 's agenda can not easily enter the general consciousness and that the control of information , whether it takes a brutal or sophisticated form , is the very cornerstone of political power ’ ( ibid.:108 ) . |
| 17 | Trow Mill stands in a picturesque site two miles north-east of the town on the A698 . |
| 18 | At the building 's foundations , each vertical column stands on a semicircular slider that is seated in a concave , spherical surface of chromium steel . |
| 19 | In the early 1980s detectors were becoming even more sophisticated and versatile , particularly in their ability to cut out ferrous metal and locate small coins ; the increase in the finding of Celtic silver minims and medieval hammered farthings stands as a good testimony to that . |
| 20 | On the Red Hall estate on Tuesday he was taking his orders from Coun. Sonia Willans standing at a central point while the other members radiated out . |
| 21 | Later , the prince and princess stood on a windswept hillside overlooking the border area with communist North Korea , as war veteran Sam Mercer described a battle fought there between Chinese troops and members of the Gloucestershire Regiment in April 1951 . |
| 22 | It had been announced on Feb. 4 that food supplies in Russia stood at a critical level , with stocks about to run out within 20-40 days . |
| 23 | Middenheim stands atop a sheer-sided pinnacle of rock that rises out of the surrounding forest . |
| 24 | Beckley stands like a beautiful beached ship on the ancient fen of Otmoor . |
| 25 | Accordingly , we can say that the academic community stands in a direct relationship to research but in an indirect relationship to higher education . |
| 26 | Ralph Waldo Emerson 's remark stands as a typical example : ‘ As men 's prayers are a disease of the will , so are their creeds a disease of the intellect . ’ |
| 27 | The jar stands in a small tank of water , along with Brine Shrimp hatching bottles . |
| 28 | He could see Tom Fish standing like a huge black silhouette in the doorway , and he was tempted to rush forward and shove him head-first into the cellar below . |
| 29 | While I was searching for some Arab property in the area , I had come across three young Palestinians standing beside a shabby food stall on the waterfront . |
| 30 | Holly stood beside a poorly dug hole and he looked down at a T-shaped junction of pipes and saw that the screw-fastened aperture that gave access to the pipe join and its subsidiary were swathed in doth and knotted around in plastic sheeting . |