1.   The graceful pink hotel stood outlined against a clear electric-blue sky, framed with the black silhouettes of palms and umbrella pines.

2.   The hotel stood by a lake, where the wealthy went to go fishing or pigeon shooting.

3.   A hotel stands on the site.

4.   But at Hurghada, where chain hotels already stand elbow-to-elbow, developers have excavated lagoons and leveled reefs, cheerfully ignoring the rules.

5.   Hotels stand to make more in the long term with repeat business, Patterson said.

6.   Near the main media hotel stands a handsomely restored Romanesque courthouse where Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur once worked.

7.   Now a modern highway gives it a paved spine and access to the outside world, and resort hotels stand on once pristine beaches.

8.   The hotel stands near the remains of the ancient theater of Pompey.

9.   The shuttered hotel stands on land that has been earmarked, at various times, for a new Inglewood police station and a football stadium.

10.   The site was in St. James Park, where the Copley Plaza hotel now stands.