Example sentences of "stand [prep] [art] [det] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | These units could then be regarded as repeatedly subdivisible to the point that the final dimension is so minute that it stands in the same relation to the highest human capacity for feeling as does the single cell to the supreme achievement of cellular development , which is the physical human being . |
| 2 | Yet lexical access stands in the same relation to these levels as the acoustic front end stands to lexical access . |
| 3 | If there exists a word or expression standing in a relation of oppositeness to one occurrence of a word form , which does not stand in the same relation to a second , syntactically identical occurrence of the same word form in a different context , then that word form is ambiguous , and the two occurrences exemplify different senses . |
| 4 | If there exists a word which stands in a paronymic relation to one occurrence of a word form , but does not stand in the same relation to a second , syntactically identical occurrence of the same word form in a different context , then that word form is ambiguous , and the two occurrences exemplify different senses . |
| 5 | The poor Christian settlers in the mountains view the Buid as standing in the same relationship to them as they stand to their own patrons . |
| 6 | In linguistics , a defined class of written marks or letters of the alphabet , standing in the same relationship to a grapheme as a phone does to a segmental phoneme . |
| 7 | Similarly , the clock on the front of the American Bulletin of Atomic Scientists stood at a few minutes to midnight , but the American government did not heed it . |