Example sentences of "[noun pl] stand at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | North of the Border , a balance between those architects expecting a rise and those expecting a fall in workloads in the next six months stands at a dismal minus 19 per cent . |
| 2 | whose Swiss guards stand at the Holy See |
| 3 | Flinging it wide , she made to thrust the other woman from the house , only to be brought up short by the sight of two gentlemen standing at the other end of the long covered porch . |
| 4 | It 's all smiles on Sekers stand at the Interior Design International Exhibition as Graham Bishopp , Sales Executive , shows the latest designs to an appreciative customer . |
| 5 | However , this proves difficult in the space available when you consider that the total number of current classes stands at an impressive 170 ! |
| 6 | The Liverpool chief has also recouped £16.4m in sales , leaving his overall dealings standing at a staggering £47.9m . |
| 7 | In nightly theatrical TV rituals of social order and chaos , a stream of hero-policemen stand at the symbolic crossroads between peace and mayhem , and the detective and the chief officer now operate at the point where once the church and its priests declaimed on categories of good and evil and the resulting binary codes they produce . |
| 8 | Similarly , the clock on the front of the American Bulletin of Atomic Scientists stood at a few minutes to midnight , but the American government did not heed it . |
| 9 | The the horse-drawn lorries going to the different curing stations where the gutter girls stood at the far end dressed in their oilskin aprons ready to start the day 's work . |
| 10 | During a trade dispute in 1960 , a police officer found two pickets standing at the front entrance of a factory , four standing at the back entrance and ten or twelve outside the back entrance . |
| 11 | When they reached it , they spied two men standing at the ready as they had expected : the passage through the palisade over the water was always manned by a guard or two . |
| 12 | Three days ago on our way up here we passed a field with two horses standing at a five-bar gate . |