Example sentences of "stand [adv] [adv] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Association did not achieve much in the way of concrete results but the reports stand up well to the passage of time . |
| 2 | They were standing very near to the door to her room . |
| 3 | The recordings themselves , even considering their vintage , have hardly stood up well to the passage of time and the transfers to CD have cruelly highlighted some appallingly blatant edits in the originals . |
| 4 | The Civil Contingencies Unit does seem to have stood up well to the battering inflicted by the 1973–4 winter of discontent . |
| 5 | They stood much closer to the mainstream of political thinking in the working-class movement than the Marxists and were able to tap a tradition of radicalism which extended back to the Chartists of the previous century and further . |
| 6 | The whole building shook , and some grass fell from the roof ; but Rima had built many cassowary huts , and this one stood up sturdily to the battering . |
| 7 | In particular , the power loader , made of light plastic for manoeuvrability on the wires , stood up well to the battering luckily , in that no spare had been constructed . |
| 8 | Er for example the ones that they fitted on the , the vertical boring mills , were round er in nature , bolted through the centre to a tool post and subsequently when they went into action , they were so hard you know , that they could outstrip the existing type of tip tool erm because the , the material itself stood up better to the cutting flow er er rather than the , the tip tool which was inclined to chip . |