Example sentences of "stand [adv prt] against [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It resists criticism and usually stands over against the culture of its day .
2 So , if Lenny Kravitz stands up against a wall with Slash , we 're there .
3 just as Peter Slade had to stand up against a tradition of formalised children 's drama , so Brian Way had to educate teachers into understanding that children deserved something better than light entertainment .
4 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 .
5 Education Viewpoint : Who will stand up against the idea of student fees ?
6 Groups such as Families Against Intimidation and Terror , the Newry hostage support group , Enough is Enough , the Peace Train Movement and New Consensus in Northern Ireland are standing up against the people of violence so as to ensure that there is another approach and a different tactic .
7 Across the river , standing out against a background of emerging green vegetation , was a large bird with marbled black and brown cryptic plumage and a long bill .
8 Margarete 's memorialising book about Milena , published when the author was already in her late seventies , gives grimly graphic pictures of camp life , and underlines , as if it were needed , how the two womens ' all too comprehensive experience of two totalitarian systems led Milena to declare that Stalinism and Hitlerism were indistinguishable ( as a result of which the communists ' leader in the camp declared that ‘ after the liberation Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann would be stood up against the wall by the Red Army . ’
9 The most publicized cases of such non-co-operation have occurred where some authorities have stood out against the minister on a highly political issue .
10 The citadel of Bayonne , on the right or northern bank of the Adour , stood out against the English for three months , by which time Napoleon had abdicated and the war was over .
11 There was a shriek from the group of six women who stood back against the side of the tent .
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