Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] stand in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The uniformed figure stood in the doorway , eyeing the occupants of the cell impassively . |
| 2 | They were posing for just such a photocall at Klosters in February 1986 , when the photographers suddenly noticed another figure standing in the background , dressed in a Davy Crockett-style fur headband . |
| 3 | I certainly felt sad , as I pictured the French girl standing in the middle of the field waving goodbye . |
| 4 | It was quite clear to them that they were at this moment standing in the presence of a master . |
| 5 | One standing at the entrance gave each one of us a little push at the right moment for the walk across in front of the platform to another gentleman standing in the middle . |
| 6 | It was quieter , with few shops , not one of them interesting , and restaurants which opened with optimistic flourishes and invitations but where , after a few weeks , you could see the desolate owner standing in the doorway wondering where he 'd gone wrong ; his eyes told you the area was n't going to revive in his lifetime . |
| 7 | A tall slim man stood in the doorway to the bathroom . |
| 8 | Stromatolites related to former high lake stands in the Lake Magadi-Natron basin have uncorrected U-series ages of about 300kyr , although a corrected age of 25040kyr may be obtained by assuming that 234 U had been preferentially leached . |
| 9 | Just as solicitors acting for the wife , where the matrimonial home stands in the husband 's sole name , will have given advice concerning the registration of a Class F Land Charge or a notice ( if registered land ) ; so , where the home stands in the joint names of husband and wife as beneficial joint tenants , will they have advised on severance of that joint tenancy in order to prevent the husband acquiring the whole property by operation of law in the event of the wife 's death before the determination of the matrimonial proceedings ( see Barton v Morris [ 1985 ] 2 All ER 1032 ) . |
| 10 | A man had suddenly emerged out of the blinding iridescence of the mist , a vague figure standing in the middle of the road with his back towards us . |
| 11 | I have this vision of a Biblical stockbroker standing in the Red Sea shouting ‘ Let my people go . ’ ’ |
| 12 | Bowie and I immediately , from that moment standing in the doorway , hit it off . |
| 13 | But this is not a time for personal pride and stubborn resistance to stand in the way of the cold , hard facts of life . |
| 14 | A sombre stone chamber , its walls were adorned with green velvet drapes while a polished table with benches on either side stood in the middle of the rush-strewn floor . |
| 15 | He made his pistol safe and took the rifle with its tell-tale bayonet point from the sob-shaken creature standing in the shadows . |
| 16 | An electric fire stood in the fireplace and above it there was a large-scale Ordnance Survey map of the town and district . |
| 17 | There was a large , silver scent bottle with a jewelled neck standing in the midst of all the debris . |
| 18 | A baby grand piano stands in the drawing room and is often played by guests ( not this one unfortunately ) . |
| 19 | It was an awe-inspiring sight to stand in the dusk outside the office , watching and listening to the boys going out on what we all knew would be a hazardous and dangerous mission , from which at least some of them would not return . |
| 20 | … the circumstances are such that any reasonable man standing in the shoes of the recipient of the information would have realised that upon reasonable grounds the information was being given to him in confidence , then this should suffice to impose upon him the equitable obligation of confidence . |
| 21 | Perhaps the most elegant formulation of principle was given in Coco v Clark ( AN ) ( Engineers ) Ltd where it was said that if a reasonable man standing in the shoes of the recipient of the information would have realised that upon reasonable grounds the information was being given to him in confidence then this should suffice to impose upon him the equitable obligation of confidence . |
| 22 | We drove out of the city on the now four-laned highway , passing the airport and driving over the bridge where I silently saluted the ancient tower standing in the tide-water below , the place where the Sheikha had fallen from her camel . |
| 23 | The old colonial system stood in the way of any attempt to replace an empire based on bullion imports by a mercantilist empire à la Colbert , reserved for Spanish products and feeding the prosperity of the mother-country ; regimentation had failed when interlopers and smugglers had turned the Castilian monopoly into a fiction , when ‘ Spain kept the cow , the rest of Europe drank the milk ’ . |
| 24 | The moonlight glimmered on the great sweep of lawn and on a curious bird standing in the middle of it , the size of a swan but more ungainly , with a little coronet of feathers on its head . |
| 25 | Only a kind of mental laziness stands in the way . |
| 26 | The unemployed Turkish waiter stood in the doorway and peered at him ; he was muscular and squat , and he was wearing only pyjama trousers that were creased and stained . |
| 27 | An enormous table stands in the centre , littered with stuff that would be in cupboards in better-ordered houses . |
| 28 | From one dim object to another he let his eyes roam , and he saw them all clearly : the Louis Quinze couch between the long windows , the French glass-fronted cabinet in the corner opposite , the sixteenth-century iron-bound chest standing in the alcove , its lid flat against the wall , held there by a pyramid of logs . |
| 29 | ‘ I saw one soldier standing in the road . |
| 30 | There will be many others , states a small podium standing in the middle of the flattened land . |