Example sentences of "[adv] stand at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rore properly stands at the head of this roll-call , above all for his madrigals which are both artistically and historically more important than his generally rather conservative Masses and motets . |
| 2 | It is merely to stand at variance with a long established tradition — a long established system of beliefs based ultimately on someone 's speculative interpretation . |
| 3 | American banks ' loans totalled $157 billion in 1992 , of which one-fifth were not being serviced ; British banks ' lending to property companies alone stood at £37 billion in March 1993 . |
| 4 | In other circumstances she would have been more than willing to engage in this conversation herself , for it was one she had frequently enjoyed ; she liked Otto , she had always mildly fancied that he liked her , she was amused by the offhand continental gallantries with which he interspersed , absent-mindedly , the rigour of his argument ; but tonight she was tired , her eyes were closing , she had had four hours of party already , had not enjoyed the Hargreaves drama , had not enjoyed her talks with Ivan Warner and Teddy Lazenby , had been polite enough for long enough , and wanted to go home ; so stood at Brian 's elbow , dully , a reproachful wife , slightly annoyed that neither of them took much notice of her , as Otto invoked the name of Max Weber , a name which meant nothing to her at all , a name which excluded her , exhausted her , and provoked her into prodding , yet again , but this time successfully , Brian 's arm , and murmuring of baby-sitter Sharon , who was only sixteen . |
| 5 | Oh , but I forgot , Buddy is a ‘ genuine fan ’ ( ha , ha ) who probably just stands at the back , looking at everybody else wondering whom he can slag . |
| 6 | Oh , but I forgot , Buddy is a ‘ genuine fan ’ ( ha , ha ) who probably just stands at the back , looking at everybody else wondering whom he can slag . |
| 7 | And I mean you do n't just stand at your window but at some time or other |
| 8 | The Baron was already standing at the open front door . |
| 9 | Thoroughly alarmed by now , Control pondered what to do , but by the time they phoned Colwyn Bay No 1 box , the train was already standing at the platform , and started to move off . |
| 10 | Lucy Downes was in , and soon stood at the door : an attractive , slim , fair-haired woman in her early thirties , dressed in a summerish cotton suit of pale green , with a light-beige mackintosh over her left arm . |
| 11 | A few people ran round to see how she was and he just stood at the window watching with a shotgun . ’ |
| 12 | A few people ran round to see how she was and he just stood at the window watching with a shotgun . ’ |
| 13 | As soon as he got out and about he was going round the house looking for you and then he just stood at the bottom of the stairs and banged until I took him upstairs and he could have a look round up there and then he realized you were n't there |
| 14 | In pre-Victorian times Camberwell was a middle-class suburb covering the 4,450 acres of the ancient parish of St Giles , which lay about 12 miles south of London Bridge ; its population in 1841 already stood at 39,868 . |
| 15 | For example , the Treasury 9¾ per cent stock 2002 instanced above stood at a price of £103 ( £103.09375 ) at the close of business on Friday 28 February , 1992 when the running yield could be derived as follows : |
| 16 | One huge stone still stands at Lochmaben : seven feet-ten inches high , weighing about ten tons . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The dead were carried in wicker coffins from Keld along the corpse road , stops being made along the way for food and drink , and every so often there were great " coffin stones " at the side of the way where the pallbearers could rest the body ( one such stone still stands at the side of Ivelet Bridge ) . |
| 19 | A portion of the original stone jetty still stands at Armadale , within sight of the modern ferry port linking Skye to Mallaig on the mainland . |
| 20 | A labourer 's cottage that still stands at the edge of the former wood was a one bay dwelling , open to the rafters , built by John Hughes in the 1580s and enlarged by the Hanmers during the seventeenth century . |
| 21 | Our last port of call is at Chequer 's Buttress ( E1 5b ) , which fittingly stands at the far right end of Froggatt Edge . |
| 22 | Liberty the group which owns the flagship store in Regent Street dipped 5p to 575p after its interim results came out , but the shares recovered quickly to stand at its opening 580p price . |
| 23 | I usually stand at the shallow end after she 's finished teaching me the floating bit , and watch her have her swim . |
| 24 | Caught still standing at the window , Meg 's scattered treasure , her , now lost forever , blown wits . |
| 25 | Brian Harley had made his one mistake at the sixteenth by finding both a fairway bunker and one by the green and was still standing at four under . |
| 26 | The young air hostess was still standing at the front of the plane with her machine gun . |
| 27 | Although stocks have fallen from their earlier high of 32 million tonnes due to an upsurge in the steel industry , at the end of June 1984 stocks still stood at 18 million tonnes . |
| 28 | Only twenty-seven new members had been enrolled since the Leeds Congress , and the total membership still stood at less than one hundred . |
| 29 | Expressed as crude annual rates per thousand , they fell from 23 in 1861–65 to 12 in 1931–35 , but have since shown no further improvement due to the ageing of the population , and still stood at 11.4 in 1988 . |
| 30 | Habib Olahi , a stocky man , still stood at attention , his eyes fixed on the rich carpet . |