Example sentences of "stand [prep] [art] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know that they do have computer science courses at both O level and A level , do you think these will be the basis of the future courses , or are we looking for an entirely new development , something quite new and quite different , that stands as a subject in his own right ? |
| 2 | Much has been written about Kaplan 's magnificent obsession with that work , and with the projects born of this love : his purchase of the manuscript , his subsequent publication in 1986 of a facsimile score with comprehensive documentation that stands as a touchstone in the field of book production . |
| 3 | In the second instance of the link between the mother and the return to darkness , it can be seen how the mother in our everyday world stands as a figure in which the individual may lose him or herself . |
| 4 | The curious nature of the first-person plural relationship in the Sonnets [ + ego , + tu ] is that it is so infrequent ( twelve times only ) and that even when it occurs it is tenuous , fragile , or , as here , stands for a union in falseness . |
| 5 | In that rich compendium of ethnographic treasures , Shakespeare 's Bawdy , Eric Partridge tells us that the word horn stands for the penis in an extramarital adventure , as in the ‘ horn of adultery ’ or ‘ horn-maker ’ ( causer of cuckoldry ) . |
| 6 | One of Scotland 's more interesting ruins , Minto stands for the moment in unspoilt Scottish Borders scenery , which could never be ‘ replicated ’ in Japan . |
| 7 | Although Lee stated that he did not intend to stand as a candidate in the presidential elections , the new party announced that it would contest the election and that it planned to choose a candidate by the end of October . |
| 8 | Because erm the er the purpose of these regulations which er my old friend has just eluded to and I s I I and I have myself , is to extend to the citizens of other member states of the European union who are resident here , the right to vote and to stand as a candidate in the elections to the European parliament . |
| 9 | John Taylor says he thought long and hard before deciding not to stand for the Conservatives in Cheltenham again . |
| 10 | Carlos Abadia , leader of the broad-based opposition movement National Civic Crusade ( NCC ) , claimed that it was well known that Ford wished to stand for the presidency in 1994 and that he wished to give up his ministerial post " to reduce the political pressure on him " . |
| 11 | The resignations of four government ministers in late September were believed to be related to forthcoming elections , with Education Minister Ricardo Lagos Escobar in particular stepping down in order to stand for the presidency in 1993 , and Carlos Ominami Pascual ( Economy ) to organize his campaign . |
| 12 | Rufus stands with the sun in his eyes , |
| 13 | It stands beside the river in the city of the new Jerusalem , where God and his people once more live together — and its leaves are for " the healing of the nations " ( Revelation 22:2 ) . |
| 14 | It was incredibly eerie to stand outside the office in the pitch dark , to press a switch and immediately have the whole air field illuminated by the ghostly glow of this small searchlight , making its little patch of light on the cloud above . |
| 15 | Each of the two principal actors glimpses his double in passing , as a reflection in a glass , and each stands to the other in the same relation — a relation which presupposes , as in many other Gothic texts , some sort of metempsychosis or rebirth . |
| 16 | There is a seal from the Idaian Cave showing a priestess holding a triton shell to her lips as she stands on a step in front of an altar decked with sacral horns and sacred boughs ( title illustration , Chapter 2 ) . |
| 17 | Back room stage so small the performers have to rest their mike stands on the floor in front . |
| 18 | The statue of the Virgin stands on the altar in front of this ; her face is in shadow . |
| 19 | Let's just say that if complete and utter chaos was lightning , then he 'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting ‘ All gods are bastards ’ . |
| 20 | to stand on the top in the clean wind |
| 21 | Angels posed obligingly in front of my easel and it was nothing for Christ to stand on the river in front of this Mill . |
| 22 | The AOC 's personal assistant was an airman like myself and he warned me not to stand on the mat in front of his desk . |
| 23 | Keith stands at the bar in Oz East . |
| 24 | The Committee stands by the decision in Morgan and rejects the idea that belief in consent should be required to be reasonable . |
| 25 | She had stepped away from the armchair to stand by the coffee-table in the centre of the room . |
| 26 | It was dark and the lamps were lit and they might not have seen Sesostris if he had not had to step aside to avoid a porter with a heavy bundle on his back and stand for a moment in the light from a shop front . |
| 27 | I stand with the phone in my hand , remembering that I have still had no lunch . |
| 28 | Yeah you go and stand in a corner in a minute . |
| 29 | Brownies stand in a circle in groups of three — father , mother and child — waiting to go pearl-fishing . |
| 30 | As Professor Housman used to say , ‘ Stand on a barrel in the streets of Baghdad and say twice two are four and ginger is hot in the mouth and therefore Mohammed is the prophet of God , and it is unlikely that anyone would question your reasoning ; but if he should be bold enough to do so , you could easily silence him by calling him a Christian dog . ’ |