Example sentences of "which stood the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stepped forward and discovered , sitting at a desk which stood the right way up , a small dark man . |
| 2 | Although outwardly a man of the Establishment , Bill McEwan Younger had the self-confidence to adopt unorthodox views which stood the test of time . |
| 3 | Although the new cars were of radical body design , they used conventional equipment of proven reliability which stood the test of time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |