Example sentences of "[pron] stand [prep] [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 | Prosamo ( which stands for planned release of selected and modified organisms ) is sponsoring a wide range of studies on the behaviour of genetically engineered organisms in the environment . |
| 3 | CMOS devices are also re-programmable using electrically erasable circuitry , and can pack more circuitry on board than bipolar chips — hence the ‘ CE ’ in the name which stands for CMOS-Erasable . |
| 4 | CPIM , which stands for Certified in Production and Inventory Management is an association of industry professionals who have achieved a CPIM diploma . |
| 5 | SQL , which stands for structured query language , is a calculus-based language used on a number of database systems , for example , DB2 and Oracle . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Sometimes the education officer finds himself standing between rival colleges which are each vying for a larger share of the diminishing student market . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ You know where you stand , Yusuf , ’ said the doctor — ‘ you stand on slippery ground . |
| 13 | Lonsdale accepts that the material defies easy summary and generalization [ ECWP , p. xxii ] but proceeds to survey the actual work of women poets through the century , recognizing that there are always some poets who stand outside general trends . |
| 14 | The Ordnance Survey map , Sheet 117 in the Landranger series , shows Gresford itself standing on low hills about 30/40 metres high above the flood plains of the Dee estuary . |
| 15 | She stood with closed eyes , listening to the measured footsteps . |
| 16 | She stood with hunched shoulders , a pathetic picture of defeat and despair . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She stood against laurel-black cherries |
| 21 | If only she could turn her back on the golden Dane whose gaze still ensnared her , lose herself in the masses and find her own way back to the hotel , but she was held where she stood by invisible chains . |
| 22 | She stood by detached . |
| 23 | My daughter was intrigued by the statue-like posture of members of the Household Guards who stood at strategic points en route , not moving an eyelid . |
| 24 | He was satisfied to leave the government of Sicily largely to the chancellor , Gauthier de Paléar , bishop of Troja , who stood for Sicilian rights and was anti-German . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In their protest they sought to restore some political coals to Newcastle : the Declaration of Arbroath in 1320 committed the lay and ecclesiastical nobles of Scotland to support Robert Bruce , who stood against proud Edward 's army , and sent him homeward to think again . |
| 30 | if we demand freedom of secession for the Mongolians , Persians , Egyptians and all other oppressed and unequal nations without exception , we do so not because we favour secession , but only because we stand for free , voluntary association and merging as distinct from forcible association . |