Example sentences of "which stand the " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | The Palazzo Melzi di Cusano is at the corner of the Via San Spirito in which stands the Palazzo Bagatti-Valsecchi , soon to be another of Milan 's fine series of museums . |
3 | Ahead now , and then right , is Corso Europa in which stands the interesting Casa Litta — not to be confused with the even more interesting Palazzo Litta . |
4 | The Victorian brick reservoir , built in 1856 , upon which stands the Putney home ground of the Metropolitan Water Board , Western Area CC . |
5 | South-west from Shutlingsloe , across the Dane Valley , is the rocky crest of the Roaches , beyond which stands the isolated , castle-like peak of Hen Cloud . |
6 | The town is still largely encircled by its fortified walls , at one point of which stands the castle , overlooking the river gorge . |
7 | It 's best to leave the cutting of the opening to a professional builder unless you are skilled , because you will need to know the number and size of needles ( the temporary horizontal supporting timbers that past through the wall , carried on adjustable vertical props ) , and you will have to provide a firm base on which to stand the upright props , which have to be supported on the ground , and not by a wooden floor . |
8 | Students in any of the major print rooms are familiar with his discreet pencilled initials ‘ PP ’ on drawings mounts , often indicating important reattributions which stand the test of time with amazing regularity . |
9 | ‘ It means simple shapes , good cutting , fit and fabrics which stand the test of time , ’ he says . |
10 | Acres of woodland and parkland , at the heart of which stand the remains of a 12th Century Cistercian Abbey which inside has exhibitions depicting the history of the monastery and country house . |
11 | WE now come to a consideration of the percussion group ( formerly known as ‘ the kitchen ’ ) , chief among which stand the Timpani ( or kettledrums ) . |
12 | She stepped forward and discovered , sitting at a desk which stood the right way up , a small dark man . |
13 | Although outwardly a man of the Establishment , Bill McEwan Younger had the self-confidence to adopt unorthodox views which stood the test of time . |
14 | Although the new cars were of radical body design , they used conventional equipment of proven reliability which stood the test of time . |
15 | We here crossed to the other side of the road , near to the Workhouse , and soon passed ( on the left ) a row of small houses called Cook 's Row , and a little further on another row — Church Row — at the northern end of which stood the Adam & Eve Inn with its attached Tea gardens . |
16 | Then , on 2 November , a sudden dash by the 1st and 2nd Canadian divisions finally secured the high ground on which stood the destroyed Passchendaele village . |
17 | In the philosophy of Aristotle , which had dominated the intellectual life of Europe since the thirteenth century , there had been a clear division in the cosmos between the perfect spheres beyond the moon and the corrupt sublunar sphere at the center of which stood the earth . |
18 | With a hiss a door irised open up ahead of him and the car slipped through , coming out into a great sunken pit , in the centre of which stood the squatly rounded shape of the interplanetary craft . |
19 | Joint third prize was won by London-based Allies and Morrison , two Edinburgh University architecture graduates who a few years earlier won the Edinburgh Mound Competition : one short-listed design from Midlothian was that by Duffy and Batt which stood the Glasgow salmon on its tail . |