Example sentences of "stands at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicholas Luard and the other members of the group were particularly concerned about the planting of conifers at Bara Ceirch farm as it stands at the headwaters of the Rivers Cothi and Towy , two of the finest salmon rivers in Wales . |
| 2 | The dancers engage in playful sport , dressed in simple turtle-coloured costumes , while Wagoner stands at the back as some kind of pondering philosopher figure . |
| 3 | All women qua women should be strictly excluded from entering the sanctuary where the priest stands at the altar . |
| 4 | But before Budd came on , they had to listen to Andy Roberts , who stands at the opposite end of ufology to Hopkins and whose new book , Phantoms Of The Sky ( written with Dave Clarke , published by Robert Hale ) , gave the conference its name . |
| 5 | At this very moment , Oedipus stands at the crossroads , killing the testy man , his father . |
| 6 | Here the now extensive Lightpill Mill site stands at the confluence of the Nailsworth Stream with a smaller one that runs down from Rodborough Hill . |
| 7 | Marion Russell stands at the threshold and peeps cautiously round the edge of the door , surveying the arrangement of people and furniture as a thief might case a property for ease of entry and swiftness of escape . |
| 8 | An early signpost , pre-dating Telford 's improvement of the Holyhead Road in 1811 , stands at the junction of the A49 and B4368 . |
| 9 | Thus has come about the present status of evolution of which man is the apparent culmination but not the real summit ; for he is himself a transitional being and stands at the turning point of the whole movement . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The fact that it [ JAH-BUL-ON ] stands at the pinnacle of Craft Freemasonry makes it well nigh impossible to change . |
| 11 | A statue to him stands at the junction of Seagate and Castle Street , Irvine . |
| 12 | Tradition says that with other Covenanters he was hanged from the upstairs window of the house that still stands at the north-west corner of Mauchline Cross . |
| 13 | Upper House stands at the southern end of a deep yard , flanked to the east by the barn and to the north by a Norman church . |
| 14 | The landlord of the Fox and Hounds in Cotherstone , which stands at the entrance of Baldersdale and was to become the front line headquarters for the film makers , scoffed at this idea . |
| 15 | Around the town centre the four medieval churches of St. Peter 's , St. Giles , St. John 's and Holy Sepulchre compliment the classical Church of All Saints which stands at the ‘ hub ’ of the town . |
| 16 | A granite memorial to these Groups stands at the end of the former main runway . |
| 17 | It stands at the meeting place of four Neolithic ditches which enter the village from the four points of the compass . |
| 18 | This is not to say that the world dictates the pattern for the Church to adopt , but to point out that the Church must be constantly examining itself to ensure that it is remaining true to the gospel and that the only barrier is the inescapable offence of the atoning message of the cross which stands at the centre of that gospel . |
| 19 | Our last port of call is at Chequer 's Buttress ( E1 5b ) , which fittingly stands at the far right end of Froggatt Edge . |
| 20 | For Balboa stands at the Pacific terminus of the Panama Canal — one of the most remarkable examples of man 's enduring engineering skills , one of the legacies of Balboa 's discovery and march . |
| 21 | The village stands at the terminus of the great trench occupied by the inland Loch Maree , the river forming a link . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Another allegedly ‘ royal ’ tomb is the Great Tomb at Chrysolakkos , which stands at the northern edge of the Minoan town of Mallia , a little inland from the cliffed headland , and it is thought to have served as a family vault for Mallia 's royal family in the New Temple Period ( for instance , by Hood 1971 , p. 145 ) . |
| 24 | The smith stands at the side but only his arm survives on the edge of the sherd ( fig. 14.23 ) . |
| 25 | It stands at the culmination of a sequence of recent monographic exhibitions devoted to individual artists , Ansaldo , Castiglione , Fiasella , and it has benefited from the explosion of scholarly interest within the city , much of the fruit of which has been published by Sagep Editrice . |
| 26 | It stands at the crest of the hill , which falls away to Queen Mary Boulevard , North Montreal and Saint-Hubert . |
| 27 | PARKER 'S STORES , once a smithy , stands at the junction of the ancient Priest 's Way and the High Street . |
| 28 | A substantial 18th century house known as Magnolia and formerly as the New House , stands at the top of The Narrows . |
| 29 | Again a scientist stands at the point which has at present been reached within a long tradition of enquiry . |
| 30 | More typically , the individual child stands at the teacher 's desk , muttering or stentoriously chanting for a few minutes , until checked by the ticking of a card which is slipped into the reading book at the page he or she has reached , or is expected to reach " by next time " . |