Example sentences of "stand [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FORMER Liberal leader Sir David Steel yesterday urged Labour to stand down for the Liberal-Democrats in seats they can not win at the next Election . |
| 2 | ( Actually ‘ Boggers ’ is really called Mister Jones , but his hair stands up like the bristles on a bog er … toilet brush , hence his nickname . ) |
| 3 | In the longer term the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees tried to help individual farmers to eke out an adequate living , encourage the organization of small farmers at the village level , and foster the growth of a farming structure better able to stand up to the rigours of occupation than the present one in which middlemen and large landowners dominated agriculture . |
| 4 | Since this high work of fracture — which makes trees able to stand up to the buffetings of life and which makes wood such a useful material — can not be accounted for by any of the recognized work of fracture mechanisms which operate in man-made composites , George set out to find out what was really happening . |
| 5 | The women have become more feminist in their outlook and this has helped them to stand up against the men of the villages and take a firm stance in their lives . |
| 6 | , John ( fl. 1649 ) , radical pamphleteer , stands out among the polemicists of the civil war period as an advanced thinker on constitutional law and theory with a talent for vivid prose . |
| 7 | Len 's mop of unruly fair hair always made him stand out in a crowded goalmouth but , even over 30 years later , he continues to stand out in the memories of Palace fans who saw him play for our club . |
| 8 | Five Railway Cup medals with Ulster and representing Ireland stand out as the highpoints of Jim Reilly 's marvellous career . |
| 9 | Around the margins of the hill , the termites construct tall , thin-walled chimneys which stand out from the sides like ribs . |
| 10 | With a top capacity of some 75 litres it 's large enough for a week 's backpacking , or even extended expedition use , although I do have some doubts as to whether it could stand up to the rigours of expedition life . |
| 11 | What has been an ideal jacket for the Lakeland fells could be too heavy to take to Africa ; what seems like a good buy for walking in the Alps might not stand up to the rigours of a Himalayan winter . |
| 12 | He was trying to undermine her self-confidence , make her believe she could n't stand up to the exigencies of canal life . |
| 13 | Aesthetic and romantic ideas of the beneficent properties of ‘ natural ’ remedies do not always stand up to the realities of practical life . |
| 14 | Next day , the clan met out on the shore , where Eachuinn Odhar could stand up on the rocks among his officers , Donald Crubach at his side , and speak to all together . |
| 15 | I should have thought that hon. Members would have got behind the work of the regulators , who are standing up for the interests of the customer . |
| 16 | And he made a number of management changes which reinforced the impression that Eurotunnel had become a company capable of acting in the best interests of bankers and shareholders and standing up to the demands of the Anglo-French contracting consortium . |
| 17 | ‘ Come on now , mind my beasts , ’ a drover would say , standing up among the Golds of the plaid in which he had spent the night and putting on a practised tone of wheedling grievance . |
| 18 | But now the first thing I saw were the lines on his face standing out like the lines on a charcoal drawing . |
| 19 | Little clusters of guests were standing about on the cobblestones between the houses , looking at a loss . |
| 20 | Peter Edwards stood out among the suits in his British Gas/Bobby Charlton Sports School sweatshirt , royal blue on white . |