Example sentences of "[noun sg] stand at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now he had the opportunity to stand at the counter with one of his mates and talk about other things . |
| 2 | Again a scientist stands at the point which has at present been reached within a long tradition of enquiry . |
| 3 | All women qua women should be strictly excluded from entering the sanctuary where the priest stands at the altar . |
| 4 | It seems to me however that the terms presumption and exception as national guidance stands at the moment go together in the context of greenbelt . |
| 5 | Then , staring across the moonlit yard , she saw his tall figure standing at the top of the slope leading down to the river . |
| 6 | Now he hardly glanced up at the dressing-gowned figure standing at the door . |
| 7 | The second man was seen by a witness standing at the entrance to Martlesham underpass at the A1214 roundabout at about 11.30 am on Thursday , February 11 . |
| 8 | There was this big , fat woman with at least four chins and a huge fat neck standing at the ironing board . |
| 9 | If we allow women to celebrate Communion , we break the traditional idea that the priest standing at the altar is a visual representation of Jesus . |
| 10 | Myles edged in , hands twisting the brim of his hat , while the young priest stood at the door looking curiously on . |
| 11 | ‘ You said someone who had been travelling through snow stood at the back of the church . ’ |
| 12 | A minibus with the words ‘ Conway House ’ emblazoned across its side stood at the entrance , its driver talking to Sybil and David . |
| 13 | ‘ Believe me , Brother , God 's angel stands at the threshold , the flailing rod of divine retribution in his hand . |
| 14 | The village stands at the terminus of the great trench occupied by the inland Loch Maree , the river forming a link . |
| 15 | More typically , the individual child stands at the teacher 's desk , muttering or stentoriously chanting for a few minutes , until checked by the ticking of a card which is slipped into the reading book at the page he or she has reached , or is expected to reach " by next time " . |
| 16 | He recalled with amazement , as if it were years ago , his first shocked vision of the adult Irina , the shaggy , sullen , unkempt ‘ gipsy ’ girl standing at the door of Red Cottage who had not spoken to him , and whom he had even conjectured to be mentally defective . |
| 17 | I remember his telling us how the first time he encountered stress incontinence was as a young boy standing at the foot of the ladder while a little old country woman handed him down apples from the tree . |
| 18 | Here the now extensive Lightpill Mill site stands at the confluence of the Nailsworth Stream with a smaller one that runs down from Rodborough Hill . |
| 19 | Moreover , there is not so much to smell when you are flying high up and away from the scents and aromas that cling to the Earth — or even if , like man , your nose stands at a height of five or six feet , rarely bending towards the ground . |
| 20 | The smith stands at the side but only his arm survives on the edge of the sherd ( fig. 14.23 ) . |
| 21 | Looking down , horrified , Penny saw a tall man who she guessed was Farmer Bolsover standing at the foot of the tree , with a black-and-white sheepdog by his side . |
| 22 | A glass of untasted wine stood at the side of the cake , a round red something at its base . |
| 23 | Opinion polls in August had shown 55 per cent support for the party , the highest level since its foundation in 1947 , and its membership stood at a record 5,400,000 members , or some 7 per cent of the adult population . |
| 24 | The Financial Times of April 10 reported that Poland 's trade surplus stood at a record $780,000,000 at the end of March , stemming from 6.5 per cent rise in exports and a 21 per cent fall in imports . |
| 25 | One meeting of particular significance was with a young dissenting bookseller called Joseph Cottle , whose shop stood at the corner of Corn Street and High Street , a few yards from Southey 's birthplace . |
| 26 | ‘ What you see of me , ’ and the hairy , three-legged blob standing at the front of the table stretched like hot toffee and broke apart into fifteen warty blue spheres which bounced , very slowly , between the floor and the ceiling , ‘ is merely a three-dimensional cross-section of a seven-dimensional shape . |
| 27 | We might say that the Nun 's Priest represents a human character standing at the intersection of various areas of human activity and experience mirrored within the text , and that the important attributes of the construct that this character is are not least life and humanity themselves ; the real individual and communal life that has to compromise between animalistic anarchy ( i.e. the fabliau world ? — cf. |
| 28 | Our Father 's wife stood at the end of her bunk . |
| 29 | My memories of cardiac teaching rounds are of a dozen students queueing to listen to a murmur while the registrar stood at the end of the bed swinging a stethoscope and staring out of the window . |
| 30 | The Shipman 's Tale stands at the beginning of the second largest fragment of the Tales , fragment VII by the conventional numbering , a fragment which is consistently found in reliable manuscripts immediately after a fragment VI that includes the Physician 's and the Pardoner 's Tales . |