Example sentences of "the [noun sg] stand on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was some three shots clear of the field standing on the 14th tee , but then lost this advantage after he recorded a double-bogey and two bogeys in the last six holes . |
| 2 | Another technique consisted of the salesman standing on the table as he called a client . |
| 3 | The disqualification stands on the proposition that , where there is no market so that the user can not by taking his custom elsewhere , discipline the provider , it is wrong to adopt any form which creates a right and duty to use the monopoly so as to satisfy the interests of an exclusive group of owners , as against those of the users . |
| 4 | The monument stands on the first cross-roads in front of the Carmel Road entrance to West Cemetery . |
| 5 | A friendly , family-run hotel in the popular resort of San Bartolomeo al Mare , the Bergamo stands on the main road close to the sea and within walking distance of the picturesque , hill-top village of Cervo . |
| 6 | They discovered the manor stood on the site of a medieval castle ‘ the lost palace ’ of Llywelyn Fawr ( Llewelyn the Great ) and his son , Llywelyn , the last Welsh prince . |
| 7 | Today , the mill stands on the site of a busy gravel pit , and is surrounded on several sides by large mounds of gravel . |
| 8 | whether the girl standing on the opposite side of Highgate Hill ( or Highgate West Hill ) with the long dark hair blowing forwards over her shoulder will turn so that he can see her face ; and if so , whether the face will be the revelation that the long dark hair promises ; and what a face would have to be like to be the revelation that one always expects … |
| 9 | whether the girl standing on the opposite side of the crossroads , with her face hidden by the long dark hair falling over her shoulders as she waits to cross the road , head turned to watch the oncoming traffic , will look straight ahead so that he can see her face : and if so , whether it will fulfil his hopes ; and whether the fulfilment of his hopes would in itself be a kind of disappointment . |
| 10 | Walking back to the end of the train , he found the guard standing on the track beside his brakevan . |
| 11 | Some hearths were simply butted up against the surround , whilst in other designs , the surround stood on the hearth . |
| 12 | Then it was the boy stood on the burning decks . |
| 13 | The statue of the Virgin stands on the altar in front of this ; her face is in shadow . |
| 14 | The woman stood on the grey carpet . |
| 15 | As the train stood on the platform we did not know if we would ever board it . |
| 16 | ‘ He might have seen the knight standing on the parapet , crept up , placed the pole there , and somehow or other arranged for the tocsin to be sounded . ’ |
| 17 | The church stands on the highest point in the village . |
| 18 | A movement caught his eye and he looked back at the man standing on the steps of the rear coach . |
| 19 | The radio stood on the kitchen work-top . |
| 20 | The massive Cathedral of the Assumption stands on the north side of Cathedral Square , within the walls of the Kremlin . |
| 21 | The hotel stands on the site of the home of General Hugh Mackay ( 1640–92 ) , who joined the English army in 1660 , serving in France and Holland , eventually returning to England with William of Orange , in the Revolution of 1688 . |
| 22 | The hotel stands on the water 's edge just outside the village-like town of Pallanza , in front of the tiny island of San Giovanni which is famed as the place where the great conductor Toscanini once lived . |
| 23 | The memorial stands on the Harrington to Lamport road . |
| 24 | Using local stone and featuring impressed illuminated granite tablets with an engraving of a Beaufighter attacking a German ship , the memorial stands on the edge of the airfield near the original main gate , overlooking the empty and abandoned airfield control tower . |
| 25 | Last week , NASA 's engineers in Florida replaced the $30 million leaking engine with another as the shuttle stood on the launch pad . |
| 26 | We sat on the hall floor , cross-legged , in our forms , with our form-mistress beside us , so as the Headmistress stood on the platform , she looked down upon a sea of faces , rows and rows of black-stockinged legs , and a long line of mistresses sitting on their chairs . |
| 27 | When the pair of huge horses made their way past the front of the Manor , where the family stood on the steps to watch , the glow of the setting sun was almost gone and in the eerie after-glow the scene took on an almost pagan air . |
| 28 | The castle stands on the site of an old Franciscan monastery amid soft brown hills lying close to the Slaney river on the borders of Carlow and Wexford . |
| 29 | Where the burrows are located in a bank it is necessary for the gun to stand on the all-round vision requires one gun on each side of it — and each man needs to know exactly where the other man is standing . |
| 30 | The prison stood on the site now occupied by the Tate Gallery . |