Example sentences of "[adv] stand [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the mill towers still stands as a private house and the old ropery is the base for an antiques shop . |
| 2 | Nowhere do Chaucer or any of his characters mock solemn moral prose , but within the Canterbury Tales such prose always stands in a thought-provoking contrast with verse of a lighter tone . |
| 3 | They also suggested that the building , whose 14 columns still stand as a striking landmark of the site , was erected probably in two phases in the first century BC . |
| 4 | It was a teacher 's stool that had once stood behind a high desk . |
| 5 | He usually stood on a little platform raised high enough to enable him to see over and past the cabins when the boat was moving . |
| 6 | In 1940 , Mannheim concluded : ’ Where unemployment and crime both stand at a high water mark , it can safely be assumed that the latter is largely due to the former . ’ |
| 7 | Our two personae may have the roles of speaker and hearer , yet they ‘ may also stand in a certain linguistically-relevant relationship of status vis-à-vis one another ( parent : child , master:servant , teacher:pupil , etc . ) . ’ |
| 8 | Charities for the homeless report that 5,000 new people a year arrive on the streets and that the total figure now stands at a staggering 300,000 for the whole country . |
| 9 | The Church of the Kapnikarea , built originally c. 875 and enlarged in the thirteenth century , now stands on a small island in the centre of Athens traffic . |
| 10 | He has multiplied his numbers to plague proportions , caused the extinction of 500 species of animals , ransacked the planet for fuels and now stands like a brutish infant , gloating over this meteoric rise to ascendancy , on the brink of a war to end all wars and of effectively destroying this oasis of life in the solar system . |
| 11 | The Holme Post , recording a drop of 3.9 metres since 1850 , presents an unrealistically optimistic picture of the problem , since it now stands in a damp nature reserve . |
| 12 | In this area , at least , the would-be functionalist is offered the kind of rich and intricate structure that may match the detailed organization of linguistic structure , and so can be claimed plausibly to stand in a causal relation to it . |
| 13 | ‘ Organization ’ here stands for a separate small company or a self-governed part of a large company . |
| 14 | But this time , once in a millenium , they do not simply stand outside a lighted window , looking in at what they 've lost . |
| 15 | The Tsar presides over an assembly made up predominantly of landowners , seen here standing at a respectful distance , and leading members of the Church 's hierarchy , seated at the front |
| 16 | ‘ We are today standing at a historic crossroads , ’ Mr Suzuki told a conference in ( most appositely ) Hawaii , ‘ a crossroads where the many civilizations encounter each other in this Pacific region . |
| 17 | Gently Vi eased off her shoes , wriggled her toes , then stood for a blissful moment , eyes closed . |
| 18 | In The Tempest verse again stands for a superior ethos in stark juxtaposition with prose . |
| 19 | ‘ We dined this day , ’ writes Johnson , ‘ at the house of Mr Frazer of Streichton , who shewed us in his grounds some stones yet standing of a druidical circle , and what I began to think more worthy of notice , some forest trees of full growth . ’ |
| 20 | The policing of Northern Ireland therefore stands at a tense crossroads . |
| 21 | The number of plastic cards in circulation has risen from less than 10 million 10 years ago to 27 million today , while the total bank lending on cards — which in January 1980 stood at £934 million — currently stands at a massive £6.6 billion . |
| 22 | The number of plastic cards in circulation has risen from less than 10 million 10 years ago to 27 million today , while the total bank lending on cards — which in January 1980 stood at £934 million — currently stands at a massive £6.6 billion . |
| 23 | It 's a form of monologue , of course , and I could never stand before a learned judge and be cross-questioned by counsel and state upon oath all that that tree says to me . |