Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] stand " in BNC.
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| 1 | But agriculture has not stood still . |
| 2 | Aqib predictably bounced him , and the first over he faced encapsulated all that Gower has ever stood for : an edge ( somehow made to seem unregretted ) and an exquisite cover-drive ; beaten again , and a controlled turn to leg for two . |
| 3 | The anatomy of Aristodikos and the Kritian boy alike is simplified from nature , not quite in the same way , but in both natural forms are perfectly understood ; only Aristodikos stands ( like Euthydikos 's kore ) in the formal way a statue has always stood , the other relaxed as a boy might actually stand . |
| 4 | Overall programme costs now stood at $ 1,300 million . |
| 5 | This is why many Georgian and Victorian houses are out on their own , whereas William and Mary and Queen Anne houses are often in the middle of villages , where the original manor had always stood . |
| 6 | Industry does not stand still and the trend nowadays is for employers to expect their employees to respond positively to the demands of the enterprise . |
| 7 | He kissed the pliant softness of each of her swinging beauties in turn , and watched the cute nipples rise prettily to stand erect like two dinky pink sugar mice . |
| 8 | This too is unrealistic , and the contractual analogy does not stand up . |
| 9 | Lord Lae declared that ‘ oppression does not stand on the doorstep with a toothbrush moustache and a swastika armband ’ ; and millionaire QCs , who think legal aid is something once organised by Bob Geldof , spoke movingly about their willingness to take the next indigent client who wandered into their chambers with a blank cheque . |
| 10 | Oppression does not stand on the doorstep with a toothbrush moustache and a swastika armband . |
| 11 | According to Lord Lane , the Lord Chief Justice : ‘ Oppression does n't stand on the doorstep with a toothbrush moustache and swastika armband , it creeps in insidiously . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The performances have not stood the test of time ; a successor would be very welcome . |
| 14 | Dynamic , decisive , celebrating the market economy ( ‘ If the market demands change , all the obstacles people want to put up mean nothing , because whoever gets there first gets the business : it 's a very fast way of making things happen ’ ) , Hailes and Elkington are the antithesis of much that green has traditionally stood for . |
| 15 | ALLERTHORPE HALL has always stood apart and important on the flat plain beside the Roman road that runs straight as a die from Borough Bridge to Catterick , and on the bendiest of bends in the River Swale . |
| 16 | Opinion : ‘ The total liability for nuclear decommissioning costs now stands at £18–20 billion … £5.4 billion for the Magnox stations and £4.2 billion for the AGRS … ‘ |
| 17 | Sadly , though , the gaols do not stand half-empty . |
| 18 | The South does n't stand out in the resulting map ( figure 5.2 ) , although none of the States of the former Confederacy falls in the top 40 per cent on their ranking , except Florida whose population character and structure has changed very substantially in recent decades as a result of immigration , especially of the elderly . |
| 19 | Suppose it is known that a certain element A stands in a relation R to a second element B. If R is an asymmetric relation , then it necessarily follows that B does not stand in the relation R to A ( the relation of B to A in that case is the converse of R ) . |
| 20 | Tepilit does not stand up . |
| 21 | The Palestinians had been firing Katyusha rockets into Galilee , the missiles landing not far from the Israeli village of Ben Ami where Mrs Zamzam 's Arab village of Um Al-Farajh had once stood . |
| 22 | They parked the Audi where the guardhouse had once stood , on a small patch of concreted ground to the side of the road . |
| 23 | Far be it for me to say that this is the sort of budget that conservatives ought to applaud because it is after all , a budget that is guided by a feeling that councils should provide services and they should orientate their services to the least communities , to be guided by equal opportunities and by egalitarians and that 's what this group has always stood for , this is the budget that we present tonight and I would hope that it would get a far better and far larger measure of support than perhaps of course been the case in the past . |
| 24 | But for a little moment Martigues still stands , and we drink coffee on the quay as we wait for the boats to come in . |
| 25 | Wright it was established that a director did not stand in a fiduciary relationship with his shareholders . |
| 26 | ‘ The whole area needs looking at : the book trade catalogues do n't stand up well against non-book catalogues . ’ |
| 27 | The level of business exported currently stands at 20 per cent of Rolls Wood Group 's annual turnover . |
| 28 | ‘ Alain does not stand much on ceremony . |
| 29 | The educated classes had just stood back as the aspiring politician and the over-eager Methodist forced the showmen into a reliance on the melodramatic and the romantic . |
| 30 | Your comment that the central thesis of my lecture does not stand up stems from a misunderstanding of what I was trying to say . |