Example sentences of "not stand the [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We believe that it is not fair , it is not practical , and it will not stand the test of time . |
| 2 | ‘ Churchill can not stand the thought of peace , that 's understood . |
| 3 | It is a strange thing , and you will find it more so in our way of life , that some people can not stand the sight of beauty . |
| 4 | Unfortunately the detailed work on which that revision is itself based has only been published in Soviet journals in Russian , so has not stood the test of scrutiny by Western astronomers . |
| 5 | MOST BOOKS on branch lines record enterprises that have not stood the test of time and are no longer with us . |
| 6 | If it appears that the original decisions were taken on the basis of assumptions which have not stood the test of time it is as well to re-run the exercise . |
| 7 | If some of Hoppé 's portraits and genre pictures have not stood the test of time , his influence on his contemporaries , his restless experimentation , his role in helping to found the London Salon of Photography , and his nineteen books made him an important figure in the history of twentieth-century photography . |
| 8 | In consumer matters these rights have not stood the test of time , and in modern economic conditions , Britain and other Western nations have had to introduce numerous statutory regulations to clarify and indeed strengthen the rights of individual consumers . |
| 9 | The arguments had not stood the test of time too well , but it ended pithily enough : ‘ What the working man wants from the war is work . ’ |
| 10 | The performances have not stood the test of time ; a successor would be very welcome . |