Example sentences of "stands [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Politically , Ratliff stands somewhere to the right of Robert E. Lee . |
| 2 | Owned and run by the Wieser family , this truly traditional Tyrolean gasthof stands right in the centre of the village , against the impressive backdrop of the Wilder Kaiser mountains . |
| 3 | The hotel stands right in the middle of the village , where the old part of the building has been the centre of village life for hundreds of years . |
| 4 | Picketing is a practice which stands uneasily across the boundary , as variously interpreted , of legal and illegal action . |
| 5 | This interventionist approach stands uneasily alongside the free-market rationale . |
| 6 | , stands mischievously on the terrace walk , which looks over Ickworth park . |
| 7 | An animal capable of symbolization can carry away from a situation an inner trace that stands in for the response it may make when it next encounters the situation . |
| 8 | The baptistery stands separately at the south-west corner of the cathedral and was begun in 1196 . |
| 9 | The church of St Andrew stands just outside the village . |
| 10 | This original building which stands just outside the city was constructed by Theodoric , King of the Ostrogoths , as a mausoleum to house his ashes . |
| 11 | The Roman Amphitheatre — ‘ King Arthur 's Round Table ’ of local tradition — stands just outside the fortress walls . |
| 12 | The Roman Amphitheatre stands just outside the fortress walls |
| 13 | Their cottage at Spittalburn , midway between Forfar and Dundee , stands squarely in the path of a new section of dual carriageway and although the Scottish Office held up work on the section for a year , it was decided further delays could cost more than £100,000 a week . |
| 14 | As these are decorations and not toys , you can use glass or pearl-headed pins to make the halo , either pushing them right into the head like a wreath , or half-way in so that the halo stands away from the head . |
| 15 | That stands away from the wall . |
| 16 | It resists criticism and usually stands over against the culture of its day . |
| 17 | He stands aside from the path and is warned that he tramples on sown seed . |
| 18 | It stands directly in the line of great folk operas , such as Verdi 's La Forza del Destino ( The Force of Destiny ) and Mussorgsky 's Boris Godunov , and , like them , it makes a great play with the chorus as a centre of passion . |
| 19 | An emerald green leather footstool stands demurely by the fire ; a fakir 's brass sideboard from northern India gleams dimly against a wall ; two porcelain skunks chase one another across the landing ; a unique collapsible divan-cum-four-seater sofa edged in cadmium velvet welcomes you to the front room ; a vast oil portrait of a nineteenth-century munitions tycoon , casts a genial glow over the hall . |
| 20 | One per over per batsman is the ration , with a bouncer being defined as a ball passing over the batsman 's shoulder as he stands upright at the crease . |
| 21 | He stands upright in the misery rain , slams the door hard and is gone in a second . |
| 22 | His counterpart in ‘ Pride and Prejudice ’ — George Wickham — stands also for the rejection of society 's standards , but he turns out to be a rake and a liar — a totally unsuitable match for any of the Longbourne girls . |
| 23 | But then I 've got ta meet Emma and she stands up at the top . |
| 24 | It is a small but spread-out , almost incoherent town , the pleasantest part of which stands up above the river and has a row of modest hotels . |
| 25 | I think the bit that stands up above the horizon is fine , I mean I think that gives you a good idea of what it would have been like had you been able to get the whole , or not perhaps the whole of it , but a lot more of the post up above the horizon simply by getting down lower . |
| 26 | Forests get hacked down because nobody stands up to the logging industry . |
| 27 | Bauhaus ' ‘ Dark Entries ’ remains a ferocious blue ( black ) print ; Danse Society 's ‘ We 're So Happy ’ is surprisingly epic and coolly resonant ; and mid-'80s music hall like X-Mal Deutschland , Sex Gang Children , Specimen and Alien Sex Fiend stands up to the test of time . |
| 28 | Bob Murray finds out how well a big green luxury saloon stands up to the strain of chauffeuring a discerning family of four around France |
| 29 | Labour must , once again , be the party that stands up for the individual against the vested interests that hold him or her back … |
| 30 | Even now if I look at a video the hair still stands up on the back of the neck , and you get that tingle on the spine . |