Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] stand [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We wandered over Clare Bridge , which always looks as if it is about to collapse , and then up to St John 's , where we stood on the old Wren bridge and talked for some time , gazing at the so-called Bridge of Sighs which connects the old and new parts of St John 's . |
| 2 | Enabling self-expression allows counsellees to explain to us where they stand at the present time . |
| 3 | I therefore challenge candidates of all parties to state clearly and publicly where they stand on the chronic and continuous underfunding of a service which is increasingly being asked to undertake more and more duties . |
| 4 | I outlined what my message had been over the past two weeks and would be at the Party Conference — that we stood by the National Health Service and had no intention of moving over to a new system of finance . |
| 5 | Relatively little is known of the first great temples , which were built between 2000 and 1900 BC and destroyed by earthquakes in 1700 BC , except that they stood on the same sites as the later temples . |
| 6 | No doubt Temple remembered that once they stood on the same platform at Cambridge . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So the meaning of a sign consists in the bare fact that it stands in an external causal relation to that which we say it signifies . |
| 9 | These units could then be regarded as repeatedly subdivisible to the point that the final dimension is so minute that it stands in the same relation to the highest human capacity for feeling as does the single cell to the supreme achievement of cellular development , which is the physical human being . |
| 10 | Base rate was on Sept. 22 further reduced to 9 per cent ( its lowest level since mid-1988 and the first time since 1981 that it stood below the German Lombard rate ) . |
| 11 | where R represents the number of correct responses for the right ear/visual field and I stands for the left ear/visual field . |
| 12 | Nellie Tanner had reached Aggie 's front door and she stood over the dumpy , dark-haired woman . |
| 13 | Melissa found its clean , uncluttered lines at once calming and uplifting , and she stood for a few moments just inside the door , absorbing the tranquil atmosphere . |
| 14 | It was as if she stood in a noisy limbo ; all the yesterdays had gone as if they had never been and all the tomorrows were no more than a tantalising promise . |
| 15 | I get about thirty quid if you stand on the right corner . |
| 16 | ‘ If you stand in a real landscape and pick out with your eyes a path ahead , then walk the path and find it was a good route to have chosen , why , that is nothing mystical . |
| 17 | ‘ Come in a moment , ’ she said , and we stood in the darkened hall . |
| 18 | Three Mutawas had been told of the indignation from the foreign community and they stood with the armed guards at the entry of the delivery theatre to ensure that no sympathetic foreigner assisted the girl to escape . |
| 19 | There the rise and swell of incomprehensible Latin seemed to have a grandeur that aroused the spirit of poetry in the Gaels , as if they stood on a rocky shore communing with the waves . |
| 20 | The crimson rope-lights still held him , so that he was forced to go on down the slope until they stood before the terrible dwelling place of the necromancer . |
| 21 | Waterworth still wanted to fight , claimed Mr Prescott and he stood between the two men trying to get his girlfriend back into the pub . |
| 22 | Creed had requisitioned an open car , and he stood for the entire procession , as a mark of his own personal respect for the deceased . |
| 23 | In 1981 he was chairman of the Computer Retailers ' Association , and he stood as a local government candidate for Rother Valley in the 1987 General Election . |
| 24 | He was certainly no taller than me and he stood in an instinctive boxer 's crouch . |
| 25 | He brushed aside new-bursting buds that slapped at his face , until he stood by the rust-eaten iron gates , watching the hearse accelerate down the road . |
| 26 | I could hear the sound of rent cloth in my head , but I stood on a wooden chair while Lili pinned the seams closer , standing quietly like a broken horse to be saddled and bridled . |
| 27 | The remarks probably refer to illness , but they stand in a metaphoric sense for the condition that Renaissance women usually confronted . |
| 28 | She had a great temptation to rest against him , but he stood with a swift movement that was all anger and sarcasm . |
| 29 | As instructed , the building was largely three-storey , but it stood on a high basement and was dominated by a spiky ventilation tower centrally placed over the War Department . |
| 30 | with the ineffable modesty that , because he stood in the direct line of the Apostolic Succession , he had a better right to preach the Gospel and to administer the Sacraments , and was more a minister of Christ than Dr Dale or Mr Spurgeon or Henry Ward Beecher … what could they do but laugh ? |