Example sentences of "[noun] stood at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old Den stood at the opposite side of the grave with Tommy Drennan , each with a cord ready to help lay Celia and Dermot Murphy to rest . |
| 2 | Buchanan stood up , putting on his coat as Warden stood at the same time . |
| 3 | Roscarrock Hall stood at the southern end of the village of Polruan , occupying several acres of terraced fields , outbuildings and woodland . |
| 4 | The Upper Mill stood at the western end of the village , and was always a corn mill . |
| 5 | The revenue derived from taxing unemployment benefit , and the relevant part of an unemployed claimant 's supplementary benefit stood at an estimated £600 million in 1985–6 . |
| 6 | It had been announced on Feb. 4 that food supplies in Russia stood at a critical level , with stocks about to run out within 20-40 days . |
| 7 | The BDA at the end of " the decade stood at a critical juncture at home , but its place within the international deaf community was firmly established through membership of the World Federation of the Deaf ( WFD ) . |
| 8 | A woman stood at the shallow end , her hand under the chin of a small child , encouraging it along . |
| 9 | Fiscal reform , considered vital to improving the budgetary position and reducing inflation ( which in August stood at an annualized rate of 1,055.4 per cent ) , was also a priority . |
| 10 | Similarly , the clock on the front of the American Bulletin of Atomic Scientists stood at a few minutes to midnight , but the American government did not heed it . |
| 11 | It was argued that Britain stood at a historic point ; a new urban future was at hand . |
| 12 | The the horse-drawn lorries going to the different curing stations where the gutter girls stood at the far end dressed in their oilskin aprons ready to start the day 's work . |
| 13 | ELISABETH DANZIGER STOOD AT THE OPEN window and watched the gulls swoop round the house , fly straight out to sea and then drop suddenly for prey . |
| 14 | ‘ Albert stood at the other end , to balance her , ’ said Finn . |
| 15 | The chapel was small , an altar stood at the further end from the entrance we came in by . |
| 16 | Indeed it had and the Nonconformist minister stood at the very centre of the Nonconformist world we are discussing . |
| 17 | In particular , the report highlighted ( i ) the low inflation ( which in June stood at an annualized rate of 3.3 per cent , lower , for the first time since 1973 , than that in Germany — 3.5 per cent in June ) ; ( ii ) the successful containment of the adverse effect of 1990 oil price rises ; and reduced public expenditure ; and ( iv ) lower VAT and company taxes . |
| 18 | They probably reached George Burnett later that day at Huntspill , where his father 's Georgian house stood at a respectable distance from the busy turnpike , with a large sundial presiding over the front door . |
| 19 | Robyn stood at the open door and glared furiously as he got into his car and reversed away . |