Example sentences of "stand [adj] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first Athena stands frontal on the right , her left arm and the shield in profile at her side making a vertical parallel to the fluted skirt-folds broken by the right knee . |
| 2 | The Hotel de France is situated between the two resorts of Rimini and Riccione and is the only three-star hotel in Rimini featured by Citalia which stands right on the beach , but also has its own private swimming pool . |
| 3 | It stands right by the wall in a rabbit-infested wilderness , the no man 's land between East and West . |
| 4 | It stands right by the banks of the mighty Rhine and is close to the centre of Boppard itself . |
| 5 | He wheeled his horse , and roared his own knights round upon their bowmen ; and the loyal among the marksmen set up an answering howl , and fell out as best they could , leaping sidelong into the bushes and up the heathery slope , to stand clear of the slaughter and find a vantage-point again from which they could play their part . |
| 6 | An illuminated indicator told them to stand clear of the doors and then they closed . |
| 7 | Remember that unless you are fitting within a window reveal , your track should , where possible , extend beyond the sides of the window to enable the curtain to stand free of the window during daylight . |
| 8 | Roedean stands high on the cliffs to the east of Brighton on the coast road which leads inevitably , as all roads do , to Peacehaven . |
| 9 | Though the youngest of the eight Faculties in the University , the reputation of the school stands high throughout the world . |
| 10 | Though the youngest of the eight faculties in the University , the reputation of the School stands high throughout the world and students from many countries attend its undergraduate and postgraduate courses . |
| 11 | The huge , ugly steel arch built in Soviet times to commemorate the union of Russia and Ukraine stands untouched at the end of Kreshchatik , though the union is no more . |
| 12 | Lord Young has had to battle hard ever since to defend both his original deferment of publication and his decision to stand fast despite the leak . |
| 13 | Then Petra , a group which looks and sounds like Led Zeppelin , but is given to quoting from St Paul 's epistle to the Ephesians ( 6:11-17 : ‘ Put on the full armour of God , that you may be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil … ’ ) , is for you . |
| 14 | Mrs Scrivener was sharply rebuked , not least by the Commission President , Jacques Delors , and she has been instructed to stand firm against the governments ' proposal today and tell ministers to think again . |
| 15 | Even at sixteen , Will refuses to stand still at the beginning of a season for a presentation , but clams down as the year progresses . |
| 16 | A horse that has had no exercise all day is less likely to stand still for the farrier than one that has just been ridden ; and a youngster that has never been ridden out on the road before will be considerably more nervous if it goes alone than it would with a companion . |
| 17 | They then have to stand still in the water with their arms out and their legs apart until one of the others playing frees them . |
| 18 | It is all too well remembered : the slimy feel of it , hanging limp and unfitting around her as she stands awkward on the threshold of the Clarks ' drawing-room , where the carpets are rolled back , the parquet gleams and in the corner the big hired radiogram is asserting that the lady is a tramp . |
| 19 | Today , Leeds bridge still stands firm in the heart of the city , to welcome the modern armies of visitors into Leeds . |
| 20 | The mark stands firm in the Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 21 | That is an important assurance and it stands four-square with the patients charter that we published earlier this week . |
| 22 | She stepped into the cockpit , picked her way across it , and went to stand alone on the weapons platform . |
| 23 | I did not see her again until during the afternoon lessons , when I noticed that she had been sent to stand alone in the middle of the schoolroom . |
| 24 | I did so , feeling rather strange to stand half-undressed in the presence of a mummified corpse . |
| 25 | By deliberately writing from a male point of view , Tanith Lee is able to explore the fear and loathing that underpins the traditional male characterisation of the woman who stands alone outside the pale of family and community life ; such women are designated bitch , whore or dyke . |
| 26 | Kirk Douglas in the title role finally stands alone on the battlefield in the midst of his dead troops , and exposed to the arrows of the Indians who circle round him . |
| 27 | Tattered and torn , Cari stands alone on the stage . |
| 28 | Tattered and torn , Cari stands alone on the stage . |
| 29 | For the more technically minded , the new Baltoro Windstopper jacket stands alone in the market . |
| 30 | Everyone 's position was dubious in some respect : no one had been able to stand aloof from the efforts of Philip and Mary to turn England back to popery , and all except the few convinced Romanists in the village hoped that the days of compulsory religion and inquisitions would now be over . |