Example sentences of "stand up to [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helen chose a small-patterned carpet that stands up to the combined wear and tear of two dogs , two cats and three children . |
| 2 | Even at this stage he was thinking of the day he would bring a murderer into court and his evidence would have to stand up to a hostile defence counsel . |
| 3 | He is right to change the emphasis of the list and we urge him to stand up to the civil servants who are resisting change . |
| 4 | And this is how Freud explains Wilson 's inability to stand up to the other men , like Woodrow , like Cle Clements or Lloyd George , who were rather aggressive , and er , were , were kind of pushing all the time , what they could out of the , out of the peace settlement , and what , er the book shows , is that Woodrow Wilson would have confrontations with them and say a lot of fine words , and then the next day , he would , he would give it all away , as it were , he would , he would be ill or he 'll backtrack , or when the actual agreements came to be signed , he , he would n't do what he said he would , er , wh what he did . |
| 5 | The Harpenden test facility will show how these stand up to the high temperatures of the tropics . |
| 6 | Does a certain relationship retain its explanatory power for a number of countries rather than just for one — can it stand up to a comparative analysis ? |
| 7 | With a plastic top affixed to a metal base the ME6 looks and feels like it will stand up to a fair bit of punishment . |
| 8 | It 's a lucky force of archers indeed that can stand up to a determined push by even indifferent infantry in a long melee . |
| 9 | There is an ugly lump on his right fist and Thornton does n't sound too confident when asked whether it would stand up to a hard fight . |
| 10 | Mr Mario Cuomo , New York 's governor , has led the way in showing that a politician can stand up to the capital-punishment lobby . |
| 11 | This will give a firm footing and will stand up to the constant flow of traffic . |
| 12 | Then followed the painstaking process of finding materials that would stand up to the tough usage and getting the whole thing done at a reasonable price . |
| 13 | And it is no bad idea to choose someone not too distant from oneself , especially if you hope to create a detective capable of standing up to a whole series of books . |
| 14 | We had a small walled garden and oblong of grass and , though Father kept a long side bed gay with red geraniums , white marguerites and blue lobelia , capable of standing up to the odd cricket ball and the games we children were able to play in the few remaining square yards behind beggared description but we had the whole Heath beyond . |
| 15 | As the leavening of hardened veterans became sparser and sparser , so the pathetic eighteen-year-olds fresh from the parade grounds in the Fatherland showed themselves less and less capable of standing up to the remorseless demands of the Verdun fighting . |
| 16 | If so , it is difficult to know how he would have stood up to the long haul that still awaited him . |
| 17 | He is the first of the so-called Marcos cronies to have stood up to the Presidential Commission on Good Government , and as a result is seen as a man of action . |
| 18 | He made quite a fuss about it , saying it was time she left the nest , stood up to the forceful Elise and lived her own life . |
| 19 | We told Frank that we would support him if he stood up to the little tyrant , that he would feel better if he did , citing our own experiences , mine in particular . |