Example sentences of "[pron] stand in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first six lines he asks when that love which is incarnated in Jesus will " com to comforth me " " bryng me owt of care " " gyf me " , and sets these verbs of power potentially activated on his behalf with his own sense of motionless deprivation : " I stand in still mowrnyng " . |
| 2 | Although , in the final analysis , Nizan retained a fundamentally manichean view of the world , and was consequently able , despite a growing recognition of the complex reality of political activity , to propose the clarity of an ultimate division into Good and Evil , anti-fascist and fascist , the urgent political need to enter into dialogue with liberal bourgeois organisations and liberal bourgeois writers and artists necessitated on occasions quite convoluted argumentation , justification and explanation which stand in stark contrast to the simplistic black and white denunciations of the period prior to 1934 . |
| 3 | Greenblatt 's explorations proceeds by a process of ‘ thick description ’ , paralleling some of Shakespeare 's plays with texts neither dramatic nor formally literary but which stand in symbolic relation to one another . |
| 4 | The early history was familiar to her from the memoir of the founder which stood in limp green leather covers on Gilbert Racy 's shelves at Betterhouse . |
| 5 | The stock still has a long way to go before its regains the 780p level at which its stood in early April before a warning of a slow-down in sales . |
| 6 | Apart from this pivotal incident , which itself stands in awkward relationship to the rest of the book , the bare bones of the story are unexceptional . |
| 7 | For a few minutes she stood in shocked silence ; she had been so sure that the rider from the woods had been herself … but now , realizing that the lover she had seen had been Morthen , she felt angry and upset . |
| 8 | Viola Machin , nevertheless , seemed impervious to it : she stood in bosomy grief , in a becoming coat of umber shade , dabbing her eyes at the pathetic bits of the service ; Desmond , in a heavy black coat , managed only an insurance agent 's decorous grief ; and Hilary looked as if cheerfulness might keep breaking through — which would probably , after all , be what Hilda would have liked most . |
| 9 | She needed someone to talk to about it all , needed a sharer of secrets , an ear to listen to her plans and , above all , someone to agree that she was on the right course , that both shopping expedition and holiday were what she stood in urgent need of . |
| 10 | Among the different groups now contending for influence , the most important are the democratic reformers , the men and women who stood in recent local elections on platforms that broadly advocated multi-party politics and bolder economic change . |
| 11 | Cuka 's understudy , Gloria Connell , who stood in opposite Crawford for a week , said , ‘ There were no public rows between the two , but it 's true to say the atmosphere was very cool ’ |
| 12 | This one does seem to be a great boost to Gen Aoun , who stood in lonely defiance of the Arab and international communities , his Muslim compatriots , and many in his own Maronite enclave . |
| 13 | This one does seem to be a great boost to Gen Aoun , who stood in lonely defiance of the Arab and international communities , his Muslim compatriots , and many in his own Maronite enclave . |
| 14 | till we stand in all-modern pride , |
| 15 | We stand in savoury fumes like pillars , |
| 16 | There is a loose connection between men , forest and spirits , and they stand in collective opposition to the world of women which centres on the villages and the clearings . |
| 17 | They stand in sharp contrast to the more open , and accessible British model . |
| 18 | Such pairs of things are like a causal circumstance and its effect in that they stand in fundamental nomic or necessary connection ( 1.3 ) , which is to say some connection stated by an independent nomic conditional statement . |
| 19 | Now , bearded to bandaged face , they stood in utter stillness . |
| 20 | When those brief moments of ecstasy were over and the everyday world took precedence again , they stood in shocked silence while Bert Rafferty carried Celia up the cliff . |
| 21 | They stood in deep shadow by the wall of the bridge . |
| 22 | Above the rush and scurry of the traffic they stood in monumental stillness , each leaf precisely outlined against the deep blue sky . |
| 23 | They stood in fascinated awe as the immense panelled surface slid past . |
| 24 | The club-mosses and horsetails were still , for the most part , swamp-dwellers and there they stood in dense ranks , 30 metres tall , some with woody trunks two metres in diameter . |
| 25 | This is a life so transformed that it stands in utter contrast to the life which comes naturally to us as human beings . |
| 26 | Located beside the sandy beach , it stands in spacious gardens which include a fresh-water pool , children 's pool and tennis court . |
| 27 | A 19th-century castle , it stands in extensive well-tended gardens . |
| 28 | It stands in splendid isolation near the moorland road to Bowes and it was there that merchants and farmers would leave butter eggs and other foodstuffs to be picked up by the afflicted . |
| 29 | Moreover , it stands in dazzling contrast to the sombre pessimism of most novels by white writers who seem to suffer what Alice Walker herself defines as a debilitating sense of ‘ cosmic guilt ’ and who have largely ceased to believe that literature can actually do anything . |
| 30 | The teacher queried one boy 's answer , he stood in rapt recalculation , you could almost hear his brain working . |