Example sentences of "which stand at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not to say that the world dictates the pattern for the Church to adopt , but to point out that the Church must be constantly examining itself to ensure that it is remaining true to the gospel and that the only barrier is the inescapable offence of the atoning message of the cross which stands at the centre of that gospel . |
| 2 | The key to Bigorre , geographically , is Lourdes , which stands at the head of the valley of the Gave de Pau , at a point where the river makes a sudden lunge to the west having long ago found its way north blocked by moraine . |
| 3 | Nevertheless the anthropologist 's favourite stamping ground , " the study of kinship " , becomes arid and thoroughly misleading if the anthropologist concerned ever allows himself to forget that the domestic household , which stands at the core of any kinship system when viewed from the inside , is a social machine for the production of the means of subsistence and the reproduction of human beings . |
| 4 | which stands at the edge of a demolition site . |
| 5 | The landlord of the Fox and Hounds in Cotherstone , which stands at the entrance of Baldersdale and was to become the front line headquarters for the film makers , scoffed at this idea . |
| 6 | Bain and Howells ( 1988 , Ch. 5 ) outline a simple monetary base approach to controlling the money supply and also discuss the money market operations which stand at the centre of current methods of control . |
| 7 | Although couched in the typically occult language of the time , Garland 's prescient account catches society at a crossroads : those young homosexuals adrift in a postwar landscape without signs may now be seen as harbingers of a new way of life and a new economic order — variously described as pop culture , youth culture or the Teen age — which stand at the heart of ‘ late , consumer or multinational capitalism ’ . |
| 8 | The Lord Chancellor will have to weigh carefully whether those benefits , as well as the competition gains and advantages for the consumer identified by Sir Bryan , which stand at the heart of the Government 's policy for legal services , should be pursued , or — as the Advisory Committee and the Bar would prefer — they should be lost and the application rejected . ’ |
| 9 | Dinah learnt the lines , was laced into the vulgar striped dress the part required , which had stains under the arms from the young lady off sick , was heavily rouged and had her eyebrows blackened , and walked on to the boards to the flare of gaslight and the outline of gentlemen in bowler hats they had not troubled to remove , refreshing themselves at the bar which stood at the back of the theatre . |
| 10 | It was the decaying thatched cottage known as Gilbard 's which stood at the top of Lime Street in Stowey , and which had been occupied until then by a widow called Elizabeth Rendell . |
| 11 | King Edward of England sat in his purple silken pavilion which stood at the centre of his great camp on the green meadows beneath the formidable mass of Nottingham Castle . |
| 12 | By the way — ’ She opened her bag and drew out the incriminating tape , which she put down on the round antique table which stood at the centre of the hall . |
| 13 | Euston , Tom Eckersley : a reminder of the Doric Arch which stood at the entrance to the BR station . |
| 14 | He recalled the ancient baptistery which stood at the east end of the church , where the bodies of the archbishops had lain , and where the trials by ordeal had taken place . |
| 15 | So he jumped head first into the forty-gallon oil-drum full of rainwater which stood at the rear of the caravan . |
| 16 | My store of money began to dwindle but at last I found Le Coq d'Or , a dingy , two-storey building which stood at the mouth of one of the runnels on the far side of the Grand Pont opposite the elaborately carved Notre Dame Cathedral . |