Example sentences of "stand us [prep] [adj] stead " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , the healthy eating rules that apply to everyone , stand us in good stead for preventing high blood pressure and heart disease . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , we can look back on the year with pride and feel confident that our achievements stand us in good stead for 1992 . |
| 3 | " She gave up on me a long time ago , but she made sure that my two sons , Charles and Joseph , speak the language of her forebears , and that will stand us in good stead in your colony . " |
| 4 | If , as children , we were given healing opportunities to grieve for a range of losses , whether it was falling and losing our precariously-achieved sense of balance , the death of a cat , the breaking of a doll or having to move house , we will have learned skills which will stand us in good stead later . |
| 5 | That is a widening of personal opportunity , a lifting of the nation 's educational attainments and a sharpening of our competitive skills which will stand us in good stead for the future . |
| 6 | It is much more geared to the administration of personnel records than was the bureau system but the experience we gained using the bureau has stood us in good stead for our own system . |
| 7 | it 's a little disappointing because we had been lying insecond place and that would have stood us in good stead for the rest of the competition |
| 8 | ‘ As we had maintained our large weighting in overseas equities and cash throughout the period of UK membership of the ERM , this cautious perception of the political and economic risks being run has stood us in good stead . ’ |
| 9 | Now we had moved on to bigger and better things , this predictability still stood us in good stead . |
| 10 | At least it stood us in good stead for Tuesday night 's game at Scrimley Arsenal , where we came away with a very creditable 2–4 defeat . |
| 11 | As we thawed out so our curling improved , which stood us in good stead when the tour progressed into the curling hotbed regions of Edmonton , Weyburn , Saskatoon and Calgary . |
| 12 | All of our Chief Executives accept er , cash generation targets erm , either cash generation or ratio of working capital to er , to sales and that kind of thing and erm , as well as er , profit to turn over issues and that 's er , stood us in good stead this year . |