Example sentences of "the [noun] stand at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now he had the opportunity to stand at the counter with one of his mates and talk about other things . |
| 2 | Part of the reason why the shareholders had to wait so long for a return was that the original capital had been only 10,000 guineas , and the Company financed itself by fairly short-term loans from the merchants with which it did business , so the shareholders stood at the end of a long line of creditors but could expect substantial returns on their money in the end if the Company survived . |
| 3 | The statue stood at the centre of the Hall of Celestial Destinies in Nantes spaceport , the huge , bronze figures raised high above the executive-class travellers who bustled like ants about its base . |
| 4 | ‘ As the rules stood at the time , the League had no choice but to order the game to be replayed over a full 90 minutes . |
| 5 | The jump will be a familiar sight to people who attended the Citroen stand at the Yorkshire Show last year . |
| 6 | All women qua women should be strictly excluded from entering the sanctuary where the priest stands at the altar . |
| 7 | If we allow women to celebrate Communion , we break the traditional idea that the priest standing at the altar is a visual representation of Jesus . |
| 8 | The Feldwebel stood at the entrance to the corridor turning away people who wanted to come in . |
| 9 | The village stands at the terminus of the great trench occupied by the inland Loch Maree , the river forming a link . |
| 10 | The smith stands at the side but only his arm survives on the edge of the sherd ( fig. 14.23 ) . |
| 11 | My memories of cardiac teaching rounds are of a dozen students queueing to listen to a murmur while the registrar stood at the end of the bed swinging a stethoscope and staring out of the window . |
| 12 | I ate the biscuits in one go and walked on to the boat , climbing up the decks to stand at the back . |
| 13 | I used to sleep in the same bed as my mother and father because of the shortage of space , but one morning I woke up in another room and I looked out and saw the undertaker standing at the top of the stairs . |
| 14 | The headmaster stood at the front of the class with Jim looking rather embarrassed and announced , |
| 15 | Visit the Schwartz stand at the BBC Good Food Show and you could win an attractive Schwartz wooden spice rack ( spices not included ) . |
| 16 | The man standing at the entrance was in his late twenties with greasy blond hair and a stained apron tied loosely' around his fat stomach . |
| 17 | The tower stands at the point of a great confluence of the coursing magical energies of the vortex , a fact that lends it a greater strength than any creation of mere bricks and mortar . |
| 18 | The sailor stood at the top of the mast , high above the Captain . |
| 19 | Less than half a century ago the Midland stood at the pinnacle of the financial system , the largest bank in the world . |
| 20 | The minister also claimed that , following a recent high profile advertising campaign , enquiries to join the regiment stood at a month . |
| 21 | I told you I saw her in the mornings standing at the bus stop . |
| 22 | The vaulted dome of the booking-hall stood at a height of 65 ft. from the floor and the outer dome above reached a height of 108 ft . |
| 23 | We saw three banks but Barclays left the others standing at the post . |
| 24 | The minister stood at the door and shook the hand of each member of his congregation , with a kindly word for each boy and girl . |
| 25 | The monarch stood at the top of a pyramid of aristocracy in a period when most people still assumed society must be run by élites . |
| 26 | She followed the old route , through the walled garden at The Tamarisks to the path that curled down the cliffs to the five-acre plateau on which the Villa stood at the centre of an arboretum . |
| 27 | At 194p , down 7p yesterday , the shares stand at a discount of 37.5 per cent to the net asset value expected for the end of this year . |
| 28 | The house stood at the summit of a rocky mound at the end of it , like a miniature St Michael 's Mount , but to Leonora it was Mecca to a believer as she began the steep climb from the beach towards journey 's end , and Guy . |
| 29 | The house stood at the junction of five roads , and with its precincts formed one side of a triangle , the second side being the pond , and the third the wide steep steps up to the churchyard . |