Example sentences of "[noun pl] stand the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind the fairground attractions stands the customary tent , capable of holding 3,500 people , served by waitresses capable of holding ten litre-sized steins of Erdinger Weissbräu 's Festbier . |
| 2 | The sanctity of marriage should not be transgressed , and adulterers stand the risk of being stoned … and vice versa . |
| 3 | Losses on domestic mortgage indemnity policies alone , where insurers stand the first slice of losses on the sale of repossessed houses , were cut from £257 million in 1991 to £160 million . |
| 4 | Between the two parties stood the King , at heart a conservative but at times favouring the Reform party for reasons of domestic or foreign policy . |
| 5 | Experience gained from previous Merlin stripdowns within FAPS stood the pair in good stead on this one . |
| 6 | At the top of the steps stood the condemned man with the rope around his neck . |
| 7 | At one end of the spectrum of aims and aspirations stood the need to turn out adaptable workers , suitable for a developing labour-market ; while at the other end there was the desire to educate young people for their role as adults in the evolving mass democracy . |
| 8 | Between the two factions stood the Wyrmberg 's hereditary Loremaster . |
| 9 | Indeed , those employers that undertake training programmes stand the risk of having their workers with their newly acquired skills being poached by employers who undertake little or no training . |
| 10 | One of last year 's Scabiosa atropurpurea seedlings stood the winter like a biennial , and like the over-wintering tobacco plants , began flowering early . |
| 11 | On the hillside below the buildings stood the ruin of an ancient moss-covered stupa , its squat , heavy base chipped and crumbling , the steps cut into the face cracked , broken in places . |
| 12 | As things stand the division of money within the game is fast becoming a simple reflection of everyday life : a few get rich , the rest struggle along . |
| 13 | Short communications stand the best chance of publication . |
| 14 | Between the extremes stand the work of Ewan and Fiona McLachlan whose designs have featured in a recent RIBA Forty under 40 exhibition . |
| 15 | Behind the dog in the trees stood the boy . |
| 16 | Beyond the cottages stood the public-house , a ramshackle two-storied building , its whitewashed walls now a dirty grey . |
| 17 | The covered stalls with their piles of goods of every description , the traders shouting their wares from every stall under the open sky , all this is purely medieval ; and around these open markets stand the lordly twentieth-century shops , the nearest to the London shops that the town can show . |
| 18 | On one of its sides stood the most elegant set of buildings ever erected by the Tughluks . |
| 19 | At the end of one of the avenues stood the Santuario della Madonna del Rosario , a large seventeenth-century church which was a famous place of pilgrimage . |
| 20 | Behind the police stood the vast , ninety-thousand-seater Olympic Stadium . |
| 21 | At their elbows stand the ghosts of the fallen in the first world war , reminding them of that earlier occasion when so many ministers preached uncritical political guidance from their pulpits . |
| 22 | At the Clan Donald centre in Skye , near whose grounds stood the house in which the pair stayed , some relevant legalistic correspondence between the two may be seen . |