Example sentences of "who stand [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But before Budd came on , they had to listen to Andy Roberts , who stands at the opposite end of ufology to Hopkins and whose new book , Phantoms Of The Sky ( written with Dave Clarke , published by Robert Hale ) , gave the conference its name . |
| 2 | Every day about noon [ the monarch ] sits upon his throne , with some of his sons at his right and left , while the eunuchs who stand about the royal person flap away the flies with peacock tails or agitate the air with large fans … |
| 3 | The children , who stand in a small cluster near the goat enclosure , now look at each other and laugh , too , but when the laibon swings his impressive , lidded gaze towards them , they freeze . |
| 4 | The announcement concludes a 33-year worldwide hunt for Mengele , who stood on the unloading ramp at Auschwitz sending Jews left to the gas chambers or right to the camp with a flick of his thumb . |
| 5 | ' Another worker , who stood as a Conservative councillor , said she had encountered Mr Lawson at a reception last year and had been asked by the Chancellor why she had lost . |
| 6 | Mr Clark , who stood as a parliamentary candidate in Motherwell North at the last election , added : ‘ I very much welcome the council group decision to demonstrate its confidence in Alex Salmond . ’ |
| 7 | The resounding election victory of 21-year-old Bernadette Devlin , a student member of PD who stood as an anti-Unionist candidate , in the Mid-Ulster by-election on 17 April , was taken as affirmation of the minority 's support for Civil Rights movement . |
| 8 | He touched the black enamelled visor of his helmet in answer to the salute of the red-coated sentry who stood outside an expensive front door , then cantered on through Brussels ' fashionable streets until he reached a large house on the rue de la Blanchisserie . |
| 9 | Thus Aquinas , who stood in a long tradition which came to him through the teachings of the early canonists summed up in Gratian 's Decretum ( 1140 ) , was clear that every state had both the right and the duty to defend itself , its legitimate existence , and its rights when these could be legally proved ( ‘ It is legitimate to oppose force with force ’ , as Justinian 's Digest put it ) . |
| 10 | Thus I do not for example think that there could be a human person ( which Christians must proclaim ) who stood in a different relationship to God than do all other human beings . |
| 11 | In the village shop , Mrs Hollidaye introduced Dot to the man in a brown overall who stood behind the wooden counter . |