Example sentences of "stand the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This clover stands the winter well . |
| 2 | The council has also built a new art gallery dedicated to local sculptor , Henry Moore , put in an Olympic-sized pool and demolished the squalid 30s housing estate which had been planned as the largest in Europe — in its place stands the brand new West Yorkshire Playhouse . |
| 3 | As the law stands the squatters had legal rights to live in their home as long as they had not forced entry . |
| 4 | ‘ Where stands the sun in relation to the yard-arm ? ’ she enquired rhetorically , pouring a Gin and It . |
| 5 | They circle Sycorax 's saman tree , where stands the hut Kit used as a temporary headquarters before Belmont House was finished , and they turn south to pass out of the colony , into the residual forest , where they can hide until it will be safe to join a village — if her people will take her in again . |
| 6 | How stands the Ariadne in respect of the rest of this uncaring world ? ’ |
| 7 | Their friendship stands the test when Ruth 's brutish estranged husband tries to kidnap her baby . |
| 8 | By ‘ militarising ’ their society in peacetime , the Soviet authorities aim to spare their society similar effects , ensure that the nation stands the test and that the Party will not be pronounced ‘ calcified ’ at the moment of truth . |
| 9 | But behind such flurries in the economists ' dovecote lies the question of whether the new economics stands the test of evidence . |
| 10 | Behind the twin towers of the New College of Divinity at the head of the Mound stands the Assembly Hall , where the annual ‘ parliament ’ of the Church of Scotland is held . |
| 11 | Gravely he stands the child up , and restores the fire-engine . |
| 12 | The Victorian brick reservoir , built in 1856 , upon which stands the Putney home ground of the Metropolitan Water Board , Western Area CC . |
| 13 | I LEFT Ladislav near to the Staroměstské náměsti ( Old Town Square ) , to the north side of which stands the statue erected in 1915 on the five-hundredth anniversary of the burning for heresy of Jan Hus , one of the founders of the European radical tradition . |
| 14 | AT THE END of this pretty Warwickshire village , in a steeply sloping ancient graveyard , stands the Church of St John the Baptist . |
| 15 | In a commanding position high on a hill overlooking the village stands the church of All Saints . |
| 16 | Near the chapel stands the church institute , a Gothic-style building built in 1844 . |
| 17 | FRIDAY : Perched innocuously between Eccles Thrift and Fancy stands the Adam and Eve Sauna Club . |
| 18 | As it stands the CAPM does not allow the estimation of total risk , but the market model does : i.e. the sum of the squares of the observations minus the mean expected value . |
| 19 | To the south there are the Dorset Heights looking over Hamdon Hill and the Windwhistle Ridge ; to the west stands the Wellington Monument , almost on the Devon border ; northwards there is a fine view of the Quantock Hills with the Brendons to their left and the Mendips to their right ; eastwards lie the Wiltshire Downs and a view of King Alfred 's Tower at Stourton . |
| 20 | This is the moment when the contestants take the solemn oath at the altar of Zeus to abide by the result of the race ; only the altar is not shown — in its place stands the god himself . |
| 21 | At the southern end of Galeriestrasse stands the Galerie Zellermayer . |
| 22 | Beneath the Castle wall stands the ROBIN HOOD STATUE cast in bronze and behind this figure , four plaques depict famous scenes from the legend . |
| 23 | JUST a few hundred yards from the palace area of Castle Hill stands the Matthias Church . |
| 24 | In the churchyard stands the remains of the old village cross , also the graves of Joseph Rank and his wife ( of the Rank Organisation family ) . |
| 25 | At the junction of the Pilgrims Road where one way leads to Birling and the other branches off into the woods there stands the remains of the old Free Chapel of St. Lawrence , which gives its name to the lane running by . |
| 26 | West Wilts Model Engineers gave rides to both young and old and as well as the many other sale and sales stands the association opened its broad gauge engine shed to the public with an exhibition about the line and the progress being made . |
| 27 | The teaching faculties and administrative offices are scattered all over the city but , forming a wonderful backdrop to King 's Parade , stands the Senate House . |
| 28 | Behind Troeltsch stands the philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey ( 1833 — 1911 ) who in turn drew much of his inspiration from Schleiermacher . |
| 29 | In an age when totems and taboos are reduced to being another manifestation of Freudian symbols , where stands the homosexual ? |
| 30 | Five or six miles north-east of Scone stands the hill of Dunsinane . |