Example sentences of "stand at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stand at the bottom and watch him . |
| 2 | JOHN Major 's ragged band of scandal-bruised and U-turn battered ministers are now gulping for air as they stand at the edge of the Iraqgate precipice . |
| 3 | If the absolutely fundamental achievements of human culture represented in the prohibitions on violence against authority and the temptation to incest which occasion it are loosened , then we stand at the edge of a frightful abyss which represents a collapse into an almost pre-human state of savagery and violence . |
| 4 | Although couched in the typically occult language of the time , Garland 's prescient account catches society at a crossroads : those young homosexuals adrift in a postwar landscape without signs may now be seen as harbingers of a new way of life and a new economic order — variously described as pop culture , youth culture or the Teen age — which stand at the heart of ‘ late , consumer or multinational capitalism ’ . |
| 5 | The Lord Chancellor will have to weigh carefully whether those benefits , as well as the competition gains and advantages for the consumer identified by Sir Bryan , which stand at the heart of the Government 's policy for legal services , should be pursued , or — as the Advisory Committee and the Bar would prefer — they should be lost and the application rejected . ’ |
| 6 | You stand a chance as things stand at the minute . |
| 7 | They approach the Ben from its wide whale-backed side , and hence stand at the top of these cliffs without being able to view them . |
| 8 | While sex segregation is endemic in the labour market , ‘ SSDs stand at the top of the league table in the welfare state ’ , as Christine Hallett noted in 1989 . |
| 9 | And in such situations it is usually the unpaid office holders who stand at the top of the hierarchy and who give orders to their wage-earning staff |
| 10 | or they stand at the bar . |
| 11 | And , saddened , I stand at the door , and wait in the cold |
| 12 | Behold , I stand at the door and knock : if any man hear my voice , and open the door , I will come in to him Revelation 3 : 20 |
| 13 | All Church assemblies should perhaps have the motto , ‘ Behold I stand at the door and knock ’ inscribed above the door to remind them that the Church exists for outsiders not insiders . |
| 14 | ‘ One can not say to the Zanaki people along the shores of the sprawling Lake Victoria , ‘ Behold I stand at the door and knock ’ ( Rev. 3:20 ) . |
| 15 | Accordingly , in the Zanaki translation it is necessary to say , ‘ Behold , I stand at the door and call ’ ’ ( Nida 1952:46 ) . |
| 16 | Bain and Howells ( 1988 , Ch. 5 ) outline a simple monetary base approach to controlling the money supply and also discuss the money market operations which stand at the centre of current methods of control . |
| 17 | Continually , they stand at the Dispatch Box and repeat the mantra that they are committed to the guarantee . |
| 18 | If I stand at the window ( which I am not going to do ) I can see a small fat man with a trilby hat , a British warm and what looks like a binocular case , standing down below on the other side of the road and peering up with an anxious concentration at this battered , paint-peeling semi-circle of so-called Mansion Flats . |
| 19 | I stand at the window . |
| 20 | The cughtagh 's presence is marked by a far-off tumble of pebbles and gravel as you stand at the opening to his cave . |
| 21 | Their belief is that we stand at the beginning of an age in which the microcomputer will truly become part of human culture . |
| 22 | ‘ I have started a review of our performance in all kinds of areas when there can be an impact on the environment to build up an objective picture of where we stand at the present and where improvement can be made . |
| 23 | Stand at the back or something |
| 24 | Stand at the back , go backstage , go out for a walk , do whatever makes you feel most relaxed . ’ |
| 25 | and stand at the back |
| 26 | Actually he 's not that friendly with Foxy but erm tt says they 're always arguing on the rugby pitch , they 're always , you know , stand at the back and slag each other off and say oh shit or stuff but then erm tt afterwards they sort of end |
| 27 | If you come out of a swimming pool and stand at the side what happens to you ? |
| 28 | You stand at the iron door |
| 29 | When they stand at the watchnight service and hear those self-same carols they will galvanise into action and begin to take up the offering among the congregation and go off to ring it up on the cash register . |
| 30 | It was a common sight then to see several boys , myself included , stand at the pavement 's edge , take out our little ‘ Willies ’ — raise them on high for elevation , and suddenly direct the streams of urine on to the watching , gaping girls . |