Example sentences of "[noun sg] stand [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sandaway stands on a low cliff at the very edge of the ocean with breathtaking sea views . |
| 2 | One building stands as a lone design example in the middle of a prepared expensive living area . |
| 3 | First , implicature stands as a paradigmatic example of the nature and power of pragmatic explanations of linguistic phenomena . |
| 4 | But she was always adored by the British public , especially the people of Swindon , where a statue stands as a permanent memorial . |
| 5 | It is an idol , a false , man-made attempt at redefining God , and its position at the very heart of the Craft , as the innermost secret , simply serves to show how freemasonry stands on a spurious foundation . ’ |
| 6 | The nine-foot figure stands at a new development in Dockwray Square , North Shields , Stan Laurel 's home for 10 years . |
| 7 | A distorting witch-ball the size of a football stood in a wooden fruit bowl on the sideboard , in the middle of a mute congregation of bottles of tomato ketchup , salad cream , H.P. Sauce , Daddies Favourite sauce and Okay fruit sauce , all with dried dribbles running down their sides . |
| 8 | The headless trunk stood for a long second , the blood fountaining in a gush of scarlet from the raw stump of its neck , before collapsing bonelessly to the mat . |
| 9 | A grey , unsightly concrete church with a steeple like an upraised sword stuck through the roof stood beside a futuristic glass pavilion with rows of outdoor benches for apparition-watchers . |
| 10 | The flat figure stood on a small base as if ready to be moved round a board like a chessman . |
| 11 | By 1235 , the whole question of forgery stood on a new moral and legal footing , and the corporate ambitions of the monks fell to the ground in a blaze of scandal . |
| 12 | Trow Mill stands in a picturesque site two miles north-east of the town on the A698 . |
| 13 | At the building 's foundations , each vertical column stands on a semicircular slider that is seated in a concave , spherical surface of chromium steel . |
| 14 | Later , the prince and princess stood on a windswept hillside overlooking the border area with communist North Korea , as war veteran Sam Mercer described a battle fought there between Chinese troops and members of the Gloucestershire Regiment in April 1951 . |
| 15 | Accordingly , we can say that the academic community stands in a direct relationship to research but in an indirect relationship to higher education . |
| 16 | Ralph Waldo Emerson 's remark stands as a typical example : ‘ As men 's prayers are a disease of the will , so are their creeds a disease of the intellect . ’ |
| 17 | The jar stands in a small tank of water , along with Brine Shrimp hatching bottles . |
| 18 | Holly stood beside a poorly dug hole and he looked down at a T-shaped junction of pipes and saw that the screw-fastened aperture that gave access to the pipe join and its subsidiary were swathed in doth and knotted around in plastic sheeting . |
| 19 | Today , the Games ' record in this event stands at a superb 48.63 secs , while Ireland 's record-holder , Willie Johnston ( 52.25s ) , would have given Devitt a three-metre start and beaten him ! |
| 20 | The qualifications necessary to enable a person to stand in a local electionaire more extensive in some instances and more restrictive in others than those which enable a person to vote . |
| 21 | Our mark stands by a white BMW . |
| 22 | They will have done him no good in the housing movement , which recognises that my hon. Friend stands for a real commitment , typical of this Government , to the needs of homeless people . |
| 23 | At Las Cuevas , on the frontier with Argentina , the cavernous station stands in a vaulted tunnel for protection . |
| 24 | The envoy was received by the King standing in a four-wheeled chariot overlaid with gold and drawn by four elephants . |
| 25 | The only light was from a dim kerosene lamp standing on a low table . |
| 26 | When every seat was taken the Foundling children filed to their places , filling the gallery where the organ stood like a turreted castle , girls on the left in snowy white , and darkly dressed boys on the right . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | These cases suggest that when manufacture as the signified of the object , becomes reified as having a separate and particular connotation it is not the actual process of manufacture which is of importance , but the ability of the object to stand for a particular form of production and its attendant social relations . |
| 29 | Into this chamber he went , to discover a woman standing beside a great canopied bed , who screamed at the sight of him , armoured and sword drawn . |
| 30 | Apart from everything else she had spent the morning standing in a stone-cold pool hoping to gather leeches which would suck into her bare legs . |