Example sentences of "stand [conj] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It stands or falls on the quality of its detail , ’ says Winston . |
| 2 | The CEGB 's case is likely to stand or fall on the economics of the project . |
| 3 | The storyline was always going to stand or fall by the performance of Tim Guinee as Lazar . |
| 4 | Positivist causal theories stand or fall by the extent to which they are able to establish the existence of ‘ types ’ of human beings ( whether in terms of biology , personality , or values ) who are crime-prone . |
| 5 | We both stand and stare at the man , and at the blood spreading amongst the red hair . |
| 6 | ‘ He used to go down there and stand and look at the frieze Bulkeley was carving ; the one that will surmount the cart and later be hung in the chantry chapel at the other end of this house . |
| 7 | For the government , acceptance of central planning did not stand or fall on the issue of nationalisation . |
| 8 | While difficulties in calculating harm may impede the application of the ‘ harm-to-others ’ principle , the regulation of insider dealing should not stand or fall on the fact that proof of harm is difficult to acquire . |
| 9 | The Conference decided " that the leaders of the next Labour Government and the Parliamentary Labour Party be instructed by the National Conference that , on assuming office , either with or without power , definite Socialist legislation must be immediately promulgated , and the Party shall stand or fall in the House of Commons on the principles in which it has faith " . |
| 10 | Nonetheless the parties may stand or fall by the evidence as disclosed in their witness statements , although a witness will always be free to give evidence in relation to new matters which have arisen since the statement was served on the other party . |
| 11 | It is extremely important at this stage to take unlimited amounts of time and trouble , as the success of your design will stand or fall by the way in which it is finished . |
| 12 | The school has an outstanding and deserved reputation , which will stand or fall by the testimony of its pupils . |
| 13 | He would stand and stare into the darkness trying to see the old ruins of Caesar 's time , but not tonight , the mist was too thick . |
| 14 | A Shamen show is designed so you do n't just stand and stare at the band : and though the live act might be the heart of the show , the spectacle of Colin ( cropped Aberdeen curls , Trotsky shades ) , and Will ( shoulder length braided locks , shabby green fatigues ) is only part of an evening of light , music and effects that now involves around ten people . |
| 15 | Unfortunately my phone line runs through several dozen pastures and chances are , like when I talk to Dave , that at all times a cow is either standing or chewing on the line . |
| 16 | An advanced student should be agile enough to be able to manoeuvre himself into any position he deems necessary , whether standing or lying on the floor . |
| 17 | Today he was quiet all right , standing and looking at the weather maps with the rest of his crew , smoking a cigarette with jerky hands . |
| 18 | Do not attempt to give massage at floor level when standing and bending at the waist ; this is even more harmful to your back than using a bed . |
| 19 | The articulation of individual praxis with History stood or fell with the concept of history as totalization without a totalizer . |
| 20 | Despite its implications , the great argument was not over the Political Community , but over the EDC , for the former stood or fell with the ratification of the latter . |
| 21 | Once , at Milan airport , we were herded to the gate and corralled in an area almost big enough for half of us , then shifted to a bus with six seats and standing room for forty , in which the one hundred and twenty of us stood and waited for the idiot who always arrives twenty minutes late despite having been called ten times and being the subject of an Interpol missing persons search . |
| 22 | Davide 's father , catching sight of the Easter cake , the swelling mound of almonds and millet , scented with rosewater and baked to the colour of the golden fields of August , called for silence by tinkling his wine glass , and Rosalba , who was holding the serving dish out from her body with both hands , stood and stopped in the door at the hurly-burly her proffering excited . |
| 23 | Shelley stood and walked to the door . |
| 24 | As soon as the water was waist high , she stood and walked to the side near to the female showers . |
| 25 | When a few minutes later , amid the oohs and aahs from the three women , she stood and looked at the person staring back at her from the long mirror , she could n't believe it was herself . |
| 26 | Beuno stood and looked at the blaze he had made . |
| 27 | He stood and looked at the piano . |
| 28 | And then ( as he stood and stared through the window at the magazine ) Boy imagined sleeping with these men , actually sleeping , sharing a bed with them for the night . |
| 29 | Carter dealt out the oxygen cylinders while Ralph stood and stared at the smoke billowing out of the third floor of McKay 's department store . |
| 30 | Ted stood and stared at the apparition in amazement , unable to believe the sight of his old friend before his eyes . |