Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] stand on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where did that pleasure stand on the scale against the misery of a man in the Kitchen whose soup was spilled , whose bread was soggy from the floor 's snow water ? |
| 2 | Just six minutes away is the beautiful picturesque old village of Altea where a lovely old church stands on the top of a hill . |
| 3 | As such it is a fragmented account but a spectacularly bloody one , punctuated by occasions when the whole of the Old World stood on the brink of destruction . |
| 4 | This was essentially a male occupation , and vessels of this form stood on the graves of men , while the monumentalised store-jar ( amphora , fig. 1 ) adorned those of women . |
| 5 | The Methodist chapel stands on the site of an 1815 building , and there is at present a vigorous campaign to raise money for the restoration of the church . |
| 6 | A rampant cheese-plant stands on the landing ; there are bottles of Czech Budweiser in the wine rack ; Highgate Tube is a fifteen-minute , uphill yomp away . |
| 7 | Some churches are of basilican plan with semi-circular eastern apse ( though the altar might still be at the west end ) and a western or central tower standing on the ground . |
| 8 | A naval officer stood on the sand , |
| 9 | This little mill stands on the Washbrook . |
| 10 | To Sharpe 's left the stream flowed into a lake , while ahead of him , beyond the shallow ford , a farm with an arched gateway stood on the left-hand side of the road . |
| 11 | As they rounded the hump and came out on the broad , gentler seaward slope they saw a uniformed policeman standing on the cliff edge , and when they joined him he pointed to the rocky shore below . |
| 12 | Even as this portrait of the work in Suffolk was being painted , the Eastern District stood on the threshold of a major new development , which was to become a source of considerable pride . |
| 13 | To frame a happy picture , a timber clubhouse of imposing Swedish design stands on the highest point , a monument to local golfing aspirations . |
| 14 | An ancient chalice and a ceremonial knife stood on the altar . |
| 15 | He looked calmly through the windscreen , his face betraying nothing but admiration as he studied the elegant lines of the ultra-modern split-level house standing on the banks of the river , but Fran was n't fooled . |
| 16 | IN THE light of the recent debate on defence in the House of Commons , perhaps now is a good time for the people of Darlington to be told where the prospective Labour candidate stands on the issue of nuclear disarmament . |
| 17 | To the small child standing on the dockside waving goodbye it was a minor bereavement every time . |
| 18 | Although this is the lightest hard case on the market , at 3.3kg , it will still withstand a 12-stone adult standing on the lid and comes complete with a comfy , flightcase quality leather handle . |
| 19 | Overlooking the town of Bordighera and the sea , this elegant hotel stands on the hillside among lush gardens . |
| 20 | It becomes easier to sympathize with the behaviour of the diminutive parent standing on the back of its monstrous child . |
| 21 | A half-empty bottle of red wine stood on the telephone table and he picked it up and drank from it with his left hand as he lifted the receiver with his right . |
| 22 | A handwritten menu stood on the bar . |
| 23 | Likewise , some hesitate , despite Jeffrey Shaw 's specific invitation to stand on the mirror steps onto which his videographic crowds of people and skyscapes are reflected , or pause rather than walking through Judith Barry 's wall of words across a computer animated floor . |
| 24 | A Saxon and a Norman chapel stood on the site of the present church , which was built by Prior Cantlow in the last ten years of the fifteenth century . |
| 25 | This friendly hotel stands on the bustling main street of traffic-free Taormina . |
| 26 | The significance of the Carmelite school has been greatly exaggerated because of the widespread misunderstanding that the Carmelite Whitefriary stood on the site of the hospital , an important monastic site with a splendid fourteenth-century gate . |
| 27 | PRESIDENT Mikhail Gorbachev has appealed to the Russian Republic not to go it alone on reform and warned that the Soviet Union stood on the brink of an economic and political abyss . |
| 28 | The Dragoons with swords drawn , sitting stiff-backed on their restless mounts ; the noisy rebellious crowd ; the pale-faced young man standing on the platform , waiting to die . |
| 29 | The canvas bag and the cardboard box stood on the concrete by their feet . |
| 30 | An epitaph to this era of modern housing stands on the crest of the city — where once there was a slope of slums , there now stands a barrage of flats for thousands . |