Example sentences of "[noun sg] now stand " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , where does informed thinking now stand on the future of the railways , or , for that matter , the development of alternative energy sources ? |
| 2 | The official death toll now stands at one hundred and twenty with fifty-three people , including one American , injured . |
| 3 | The result now stands at 21 — 16 in Aberdeen 's favour with 3 matches halved . |
| 4 | On the thorny question of the failure of the Goya ‘ Portrait of Dona Maria Teresa de Vallabriga y Rozas ’ ( lot 342 ) , unsold at £600,000 Charles Beddington noted that prices for Goya paintings are still puzzlingly low ( particularly as the record price for a Goya drawing now stands at £600,000 ) while he felt that a recession-led caution may have contributed to the lack of interest in the Zurbarán , bought in at £900,000 ( est. £1.2–1.6 million ) . |
| 5 | The overall entry now stands at 235 — a figure which Robin McDonough describes as ‘ excellent ’ . |
| 6 | The tariff for goods carriage now stood at 20,000 times previous rates , but this still fell far below the cost-of-living index due to astronomical inflation . |
| 7 | The last of the four ancient universities of Scotland to be established , Edinburgh owes its origin to the Town Council who provided the necessary finances , procured the site , where Old College now stands , and negotiated for the Royal Sanction . |
| 8 | He was buried at Nespelem , where a monument now stands . |
| 9 | Charities for the homeless report that 5,000 new people a year arrive on the streets and that the total figure now stands at a staggering 300,000 for the whole country . |
| 10 | The number of people unemployed has risen for the twenty-second month in a row , the figure now stands at two point six , five million . |
| 11 | . It is here very tentatively suggested that these may be cases in which , as the law now stands , the doctor has a discretion … either to refrain , at his patient 's request , from administering life-saving treatments or to ignore his patient 's wishes where compliance is likely to result in death . |
| 12 | As the law now stands it is legal to grow the mushrooms , and eat them fresh , but illegal to prepare them in any way — even by cooking . |
| 13 | Even servants , in process of time , acquired a state of freedom and independency unknown to this rank in any other nation ; and which , as the law now stands , is inconsistent with a servile condition . |
| 14 | The stricken coach now stands on the hard shoulder of the M two having been lifted up the embankment by a heavy crane . |
| 15 | The first Presbyterian services in Portadown were held in the basement of a building where the Ulster Bank now stands and then in 1822 the first church was built in Edenderry on the site where the lecture hall now stands . |
| 16 | He grasped the coroner 's arm and swung him round , keeping an eye on the hospitaller now standing behind them . |
| 17 | ‘ From Where the Sun Now Stands ’ |
| 18 | From where the sun now stands , I will fight no more forever . |
| 19 | Sandison turned to find the only other customer in the bar now standing next to him . |
| 20 | The world 's population now stands at a little over four billion . |
| 21 | The prison population now stands at around 40,000 , which was that of England and Wales prior to the 1980s increase , against a total state population of rather more than half that of England and Wales . |
| 22 | The biggest population change was a reduction of 4.5pc in the Easington district where the population now stands at 96,300 . |
| 23 | The world 's nuclear stockpile now stands at 16 thousand million tons of TNT . |
| 24 | The entry charge now stands at £3 per climber , with threats to confiscate the equipment of climbers not paying . |
| 25 | The total out of work in the town now stands at 27.6pc . |
| 26 | British membership now stood at 1,639 but the overnight total had been augmented by many European trampers , a trend which was widely welcomed as a sign of real internationalism : ‘ This summer our hostels housed a miniature League of Nations ’ , claimed the Manchester and District Ramblers ' Federation Handbook in 1932 . |
| 27 | Its membership now stands at 1.78 million . |
| 28 | Its membership now stands at 1.78 million . |
| 29 | The Staffel had claimed at least 42 victories , of which 20 ( including one over Yugoslavia ) had been credited to Müncheberg , whose score now stood at 43 . |
| 30 | Refuge theory would predict that where forest now stands today , there would have been savanna and that the higher wetter country would have been the ‘ refugia ’ in glacial times . |