Example sentences of "[pers pn] stands [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , devoid of sundry aid pegs , it stands at hard E2 ; and at that time it was another leap in climbing standards . |
| 2 | It often refers to any individual member organization irrespective of its actual name , i.e. whether it is an association or federation or whether it stands for Planned Parenthood , Family Well-being , Responsible Parenthood , Protection of the Family or Family Health , etc . |
| 3 | ‘ It stands for New Kentucky . ’ |
| 4 | With provocation we look at the " what if " and suppose " and go even beyond these with " po " the new word I coined elsewhere to allow deliberate provocation ( it stands for provocative Operation ) . |
| 5 | This is a life so transformed that it stands in utter contrast to the life which comes naturally to us as human beings . |
| 6 | Located beside the sandy beach , it stands in spacious gardens which include a fresh-water pool , children 's pool and tennis court . |
| 7 | A 19th-century castle , it stands in extensive well-tended gardens . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | When a poet is nearing the creation of a new image , it is as if he stands with stout Cortes : |