Example sentences of "[Wh det] stood at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Hardman , Graham Lees , Bill Mellor and Jim Makin decided to launch CAMRA , which stood at first for the Campaign for the Revitalisation of Ale . |
| 2 | Their snug cottage looked across the road to the ugliest house on the green , the Rectory , which stood at six o'clock , dead opposite the Youngs across Thrush Green , and was consequently a source of continuous irritation to Edward , the architect , who could see it from every south-facing window of his house . |
| 3 | It was the decaying thatched cottage known as Gilbard 's which stood at the top of Lime Street in Stowey , and which had been occupied until then by a widow called Elizabeth Rendell . |
| 4 | Euston , Tom Eckersley : a reminder of the Doric Arch which stood at the entrance to the BR station . |
| 5 | Dinah learnt the lines , was laced into the vulgar striped dress the part required , which had stains under the arms from the young lady off sick , was heavily rouged and had her eyebrows blackened , and walked on to the boards to the flare of gaslight and the outline of gentlemen in bowler hats they had not troubled to remove , refreshing themselves at the bar which stood at the back of the theatre . |
| 6 | He recalled the ancient baptistery which stood at the east end of the church , where the bodies of the archbishops had lain , and where the trials by ordeal had taken place . |
| 7 | Shares in Acorn Computer Group Plc , which stood at 38 pence at the start of the year , put on 29 pence at 112 pence on the strength of its 46%-owned affiliate Advanced RISC Machines Ltd 's significant agreement with Texas Instruments Inc ( CI No 2,175 ) before settling back sixpence on Tuesday to close at 106p . |
| 8 | OCMP group members have 32.7% of the Japanese workstation market which stood at 106,320 shipments last year , and would like to increase this share to 50% . |
| 9 | The £3m or so net of expenses that it expects from the placing will go to eliminating existing bank loans , which stood at £952,200 on November 13 , with the balance going for working capital . |
| 10 | It apparently wants to cut a thousand from its rolls which stood at 13,381 at the end of March . |
| 11 | The cultural budget , which stood at FFr3 billion in 1981 , is now FFr13 billion ( £1.3 billion ; $2.3 billion ) thirteen years later , precisely because he could count on the unconditional support of President Mitterrand , who is not only an acknowledged lover of both the arts and literature , but also requires an element of grandeur to be orchestrated and injected into large-scale projects ( see p.12 ) . |
| 12 | I remember two very special expeditions to the top of the Heath — not very far from our house which stood at almost the height of the cross on St Paul 's Cathedral , a fact that was emblazoned on the house above us in the East Heath Road . |
| 13 | But in this period his salary , although not extravagant , was generous enough : the priest at Longdendale was allocated less than half the Master 's £10 , which stood at the higher level of salaries , ranging from £4 6 0d to £12 6 0d , at this time for such a position . |
| 14 | The distribution of mortgage interest tax relief , which stood at £4.9 billion before the rise in lending rates during the second half of 1988 , is indicative of all tax benefits . |
| 15 | Pulse rates , which stood at 70 to 80 before that moment in the bar , and rose to 90 to 100 during the earlier phases of arousal , now stand at around 130 . |
| 16 | In August 1920 , the cost of a house which stood at £250 in 1914 , had risen to £930 on average . |
| 17 | This has already contributed to a fall in households ' income gearing , which stood at 11.4 per cent in the second quarter compared with a peak of 12.9 per cent in the second quarter of last year . |
| 18 | King Edward of England sat in his purple silken pavilion which stood at the centre of his great camp on the green meadows beneath the formidable mass of Nottingham Castle . |
| 19 | By the way — ’ She opened her bag and drew out the incriminating tape , which she put down on the round antique table which stood at the centre of the hall . |
| 20 | Yet his Government has seldom been able to service its foreign debt , which stood at $4,200 million by 1983 . |
| 21 | Charles Haughey , the Prime Minister , announced on Nov. 24 , 1989 , that a special National Debt Office was to be established within the Ministry of Finance to oversee and manage the country 's national debt , which stood at I£25,000 million . |
| 22 | A 10 per cent cut in defence spending could pay for a doubling of development assistance ( which stood at $51,000 million in 1988 ) , while increasing aid to the target level of 0.7 per cent of gross nation product ( GNP ) would raise assistance flows to $144,000 million by 2000 . |
| 23 | Soviet officials predicted that trade between the two countries , which stood at less than US$600 million in 1989 , could exceed $10,000 million per year by the mid-1990s , and that massive Korean investment in the crisis-ridden Soviet economy could provide an immediate injection of consumer goods and technological expertise . |
| 24 | By early December , however , even a 2,875 tonne fall in stocks failed to boost prices which stood at around $1,236 a tonne . |
| 25 | Unemployment , which stood at 0.6 per cent in 1990 , reached 1.1 per cent ( 33,600 ) by April 1991 . |
| 26 | My store of money began to dwindle but at last I found Le Coq d'Or , a dingy , two-storey building which stood at the mouth of one of the runnels on the far side of the Grand Pont opposite the elaborately carved Notre Dame Cathedral . |
| 27 | So he jumped head first into the forty-gallon oil-drum full of rainwater which stood at the rear of the caravan . |
| 28 | His prize money more than doubled Hendry 's seasonal earnings , which stood at £92,950 from the nine events leading up to his week 's work at the London venue . |