Example sentences of "[noun] stands [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The village playing field stands opposite the old school and occupies the old titheyard where tithes were paid to the church up to the early 19th century . |
| 2 | Broadly , if the courts believe the authority would still have granted the consent if they had known that they could not have imposed the condition in question , the permission stands without the offending condition , but if the answer is that they probably would not , then the permission itself falls . |
| 3 | The Moebius Strip stands on the southern bank of the Grand Canal about a kilometre along from the Baratha Arcade , between the Church of the Directed Panspermia and a crustacean restaurant . |
| 4 | Mr Campbell commented ‘ The most important recent development in ordinary shares was the reverse yield gap which at present stands at the alarming value of 4 ¼%.; |
| 5 | His statue stands in the delightful Place Royale , above the possessive caption of ‘ Lou Nouste Henric ’ , or ‘ Our Henry ’ in the local Gas con patois . |
| 6 | The monument stands on the first cross-roads in front of the Carmel Road entrance to West Cemetery . |
| 7 | The defender stands in the ready position ( yoi ) , awaiting the impending attack . |
| 8 | A trade union to my mind stands in the same position . |
| 9 | At the heart of the development a new glazed roof stands over the two-level shopping area . |
| 10 | A friendly , family-run hotel in the popular resort of San Bartolomeo al Mare , the Bergamo stands on the main road close to the sea and within walking distance of the picturesque , hill-top village of Cervo . |
| 11 | He noted that the club would need to do work on the North and South stands in the foreseeable future . |
| 12 | He noted that the club would need to do work on the North and South stands in the foreseeable future . |
| 13 | Just as solicitors acting for the wife , where the matrimonial home stands in the husband 's sole name , will have given advice concerning the registration of a Class F Land Charge or a notice ( if registered land ) ; so , where the home stands in the joint names of husband and wife as beneficial joint tenants , will they have advised on severance of that joint tenancy in order to prevent the husband acquiring the whole property by operation of law in the event of the wife 's death before the determination of the matrimonial proceedings ( see Barton v Morris [ 1985 ] 2 All ER 1032 ) . |
| 14 | Two clipped young Gurkhas peel off to the side as the Queen stands before the two great thrones , flanked by a clutch of Yeomen of the Guard , pikes resting on their shoulders . |
| 15 | A headstone of Thatcherite granite stands over the ministerial grave of that consensual Tory , Francis Pym — in real life , still happily with us in the House of Lords . |
| 16 | The mute swan population stands at the highest it has been for 40 years . |
| 17 | To experience joy in suffering is to realize that Jesus stands with the poor , the underprivileged , and those , like Francis of Assisi , rejected by their own people . |
| 18 | It is true that the Smolensk archives dropped uncensored into German hands in the Second World War , and that Yakovlev is remarkably self-critical of his own party ; but only Makarenko stands outside the Bolshevik view of things . |
| 19 | She argues the case through a reading of a history painting ‘ Zeuxis Choosing his Models for the Painting of Helen of Troy ’ of the late 1770s in which one of the female figures stands behind the classical Greek artist and herself reaches for the chalk to start on the blank canvas beside her , and through a self portrait ‘ Angelica Kauffman Hesitating between the Arts of Music and Painting ’ ( 1794 ) . |
| 20 | Calypso is a specifically Trinidadian musical form , but just as later Jamaican reggae stands as the archetypal Black music , so in this period does calypso . |
| 21 | A comfortable chair for nanny stands by the brass-bound fender that surrounds the hob grate , with the nursery kettle on it for making the baby 's feeds . |
| 22 | Yet lexical access stands in the same relation to these levels as the acoustic front end stands to lexical access . |
| 23 | The church stands on the highest point in the village . |
| 24 | Now a Victorian church stands amid the barren Moor , a mute reminder of the lonely hamlet 's more romantic past . |
| 25 | Penal Policy in a Changing Society stands as the high watermark of what later became known as the treatment model . |
| 26 | Again he said , in an argument strangely reminiscent of Erastus , Richard Hooker and Matthew Arnold , that ‘ the State is more sacred than any Church … for the State stands for the whole people in their manifold collective life ; and any Church is but a fragment of that life , though one of the most important fragments ’ . |
| 27 | Long and straggling , Long Riston stands off the main road from Hull to Bridlington . |
| 28 | This friendly hotel stands on the bustling main street of traffic-free Taormina . |
| 29 | John Rymouth stands on the 20 foot single piece , arched stone bridge across a mountain stream and points to the Cylopean walls discovered on a hill top in the Rennes valley |
| 30 | Act aeon leans sharply across the field from the right bottom corner , struggling against three hounds , while the goddess stands at the left , quiet , head a little bent , lending a curious still beauty to the cruel scene . |