Example sentences of "[pron] stands [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone stands for the general salute — they may be civilian guests , but they have studied the programme avidly and have learnt what to do . |
| 2 | Alan Pugh is the secretary of another group of initials , BFICC , which stands for the British Facsimile Industry Consultative Committee . |
| 3 | However , there is a place in social research , and a very important one , for the type of interview which stands at the other extreme to the structured one , namely the non-standardised interview . |
| 4 | Another allegedly ‘ royal ’ tomb is the Great Tomb at Chrysolakkos , which stands at the northern edge of the Minoan town of Mallia , a little inland from the cliffed headland , and it is thought to have served as a family vault for Mallia 's royal family in the New Temple Period ( for instance , by Hood 1971 , p. 145 ) . |
| 5 | An important defensive position against the Turks was the fortress of Klis , which stands on an isolated pinnacle of rock overlooking the route which leads from Solin ( Salona ) to Sinj , in a gap between the Kozjak and Mosor mountains . |
| 6 | Begun in the 1220's , two powerful towers on a crag are the dominant features of this castle , which stands above a deep gorge overlooking the River Teifi , famed for its coracle fishermen . |
| 7 | Having viewed the replacement external fresco and the church — although only through a haze of overhead tram wires — from the little square where Via Mazzini crosses Via Falcone and several other minor roads , go inside and see the real one which stands above the main altar , beneath Bramante 's masterly pseudo-apse . |
| 8 | From here the path descends to the top of Summerhouse Crag which stands over the Llugwy Gorge . |
| 9 | If there exists a word which stands in a paronymic relation to one occurrence of a word form , but does not stand in the same relation to a second , syntactically identical occurrence of the same word form in a different context , then that word form is ambiguous , and the two occurrences exemplify different senses . |
| 10 | The Val d'Azun will take you down at its eastern end to the town of Argelés-Gazost , which stands in a wide basin of the Gave de Pau , some eight miles south of Lourdes . |
| 11 | The cathedral , which stands in a commanding position on a hill overlooking the wide valley below , was begun in the early twelfth century . |
| 12 | Vitruvius also refers to a variation on the Doric Order which he calls Tuscan ; this has an unfluted column shaft which stands upon an Ionic-type base ( VII and VIII ) . |
| 13 | She stands for a long moment . |
| 14 | If you are to be awkward then my mother will not know where she stands for a good deal of time . ’ |
| 15 | Most often she stands with the left foot forward ( a borrowing no doubt from the kouros , but it is not like his a full stride , rather so short a step as to seem like a dance-motion ) , left hand pulling the skirt to the side and letting a swag hang free , right forearm raised forward with an offering . |
| 16 | She stands beyond the see-through wall and grimaces to herself . |
| 17 | She 's smiling softly as she stands in the dim glow , and she asks , ‘ Do you want to go to bed ? ’ |
| 18 | But before Budd came on , they had to listen to Andy Roberts , who stands at the opposite end of ufology to Hopkins and whose new book , Phantoms Of The Sky ( written with Dave Clarke , published by Robert Hale ) , gave the conference its name . |
| 19 | Only the spire of the church could be saved , and today it stands as a stark reminder of that devastating night in August 1989 . |
| 20 | Rather it stands as a nasty addition this winter to the equation which leads to accidents year in , year out . |
| 21 | The ‘ thick description ’ takes on a type of metaphoric quality : it stands as a symbolic indication of some wider social meaning within the culture which is elicited through critical interpretation . |
| 22 | It stands as a sympathetic appraisal by a critic who is trusting largely to his own intuitive sense of quality : |
| 23 | Although it stands as an important account of new anthropological theory and purports to throw a revealing light on the social organisation of Balinese society , its carefully organised narrative is also a good story arranged so the shifts between Geertz 's account of his gradual development as an aficionado of cockfighting and the development of his theory of the social significance of this sport merge . |
| 24 | So what do you think about the overall situation as it stands at the present time ? |
| 25 | It stands on a small hill , higher than the other villas , with a private approach road and a large balcony looking out to sea . |
| 26 | It stands on a small mound at the junction of the two villages . |
| 27 | It stands on a rusticated arcade , the windows with their mullions and transoms still have their broken triangular pediments and the bays are divided with strapwork of Mannerist design . |
| 28 | It stands for a positive policy — Socialism at home and internationally " . |
| 29 | It stands in a small square , now some five feet below the present ground level , surrounded by cypress trees . |
| 30 | It stands in a charming enclave of similar houses in the heart of increasingly fashionable Deptford which has mercifully escaped the ravages of Sixties property developers and Seventies road schemes . |