Example sentences of "stands [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foucault works from exactly the same tradition in the philosophy and history of science as Althusser : like him he utilizes Bachelard 's concept of differentiated histories , which still stands as the major alternative , epistemic or otherwise , to historicism . |
| 2 | Penal Policy in a Changing Society stands as the high watermark of what later became known as the treatment model . |
| 3 | Everyone stands for the general salute — they may be civilian guests , but they have studied the programme avidly and have learnt what to do . |
| 4 | Alan Pugh is the secretary of another group of initials , BFICC , which stands for the British Facsimile Industry Consultative Committee . |
| 5 | Long and straggling , Long Riston stands off the main road from Hull to Bridlington . |
| 6 | Our hotel , the four-star Elea Beach , stands off the main drag at the end of a quiet lane . |
| 7 | Now a Victorian church stands amid the barren Moor , a mute reminder of the lonely hamlet 's more romantic past . |
| 8 | The village playing field stands opposite the old school and occupies the old titheyard where tithes were paid to the church up to the early 19th century . |
| 9 | The Parish Church or Church of São Sebastião , stands near the central square and was erected in the eighteenth century . |
| 10 | Having viewed the replacement external fresco and the church — although only through a haze of overhead tram wires — from the little square where Via Mazzini crosses Via Falcone and several other minor roads , go inside and see the real one which stands above the main altar , beneath Bramante 's masterly pseudo-apse . |
| 11 | Most often she stands with the left foot forward ( a borrowing no doubt from the kouros , but it is not like his a full stride , rather so short a step as to seem like a dance-motion ) , left hand pulling the skirt to the side and letting a swag hang free , right forearm raised forward with an offering . |
| 12 | It now stands alongside the main road between Sleaford and Lincoln , set in a landscape of rectangular fields and straight lanes all dating from the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century enclosures there . |
| 13 | The Ostrich Inn still stands in the ancient village of Colnbrook near Slough . |
| 14 | Now he stands in the small parking lot at the back of the hospital , bargaining with God . |
| 15 | St Augustine did not explain how the mind could be an accurate chronometer for the timing of external events , but as the pioneer of the study of psychological time he stands in the front rank of those who have contributed to the understanding of our sense of time . |
| 16 | It stands in the pretty hill village of Crayke with magnificent views over the Vale of York , and the Dales . |
| 17 | The defender stands in the ready position ( yoi ) , awaiting the impending attack . |
| 18 | Adam Sedgwick , whose life is commemorated in a fine book by Colin Speakman and in a memorial fountain of Shap granite that stands in the main street , is Dent 's most famous son . |
| 19 | She 's smiling softly as she stands in the dim glow , and she asks , ‘ Do you want to go to bed ? ’ |
| 20 | He noted that the club would need to do work on the North and South stands in the foreseeable future . |
| 21 | He noted that the club would need to do work on the North and South stands in the foreseeable future . |
| 22 | If one player stands in the wrong place , it will change the value of the team number . |
| 23 | the man who 's actually called out in the middle of the night and stands in the pouring rain with his mac on directing operations . |
| 24 | She stands beyond the see-through wall and grimaces to herself . |
| 25 | It too was replaced by a larger stone station , part of which still stands beside the modern structure which succeeded it . |
| 26 | The Moebius Strip stands on the southern bank of the Grand Canal about a kilometre along from the Baratha Arcade , between the Church of the Directed Panspermia and a crustacean restaurant . |
| 27 | At that time the square was bigger , with the palazzo standing at its centre , and the northern limit being the Palazzo Giureconsulti which now stands on the far side of Via Mercanti . |
| 28 | These ridges have been built with considerable rapidity for Camber Castle stands on the innermost ridge , although , when it was constructed in 1538–9 , it stood on the ridge next to the sea . |
| 29 | The stricken coach now stands on the hard shoulder of the M two having been lifted up the embankment by a heavy crane . |
| 30 | Most people who have travelled through the Monkton district of Ayrshire will have noticed the monument that stands on the high ground behind the Dutch House Caravan Park , and wondered what it is and why it is there . |