Example sentences of "[vb mod] stand [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Depending on its strength and the time required for it to reach maturity , a beer must stand for 12 to 48 hours before it can be drunk . |
| 2 | But it must stand alongside other factors , the principal one of which is that the date of his first review should , in my view , relate strictly to the judicial view of the tariff . |
| 3 | And if they ever want a reference , I 'll stand for that . |
| 4 | And he 'd say , Well and he 'd got a whole string of Lenin 's books , and he 'd reach down and pick one and turn to the right page straight away , says , This is what Lenin said , and he said , I 'll stand by this , you know . |
| 5 | Mahathir , 66 , issued a call for party unity and hinted strongly that he might stand for another two-year term as UMNO leader in the party 's 1993 elections . |
| 6 | You could stand on that . |
| 7 | As a constable at Easton explained , ‘ I could stand at that comer there and catch a hundred people breaking some law or other in one shift , no bother . |
| 8 | Then I think I read some of my favourite English poems — Hardy , Hopkins , Housman , Blake , Yeats , Edward Thomas , Wilfred Owen , and I think one each by Ted Hughes and Thom Gunn , the only contemporaries I could stand at that time . |
| 9 | If there was a second ballot , new candidates could stand at that stage . |
| 10 | Old Lincolnshire folk claim that in the 1920 's one could stand at this point and see no less than sixteen windmills noiselessly at work . |
| 11 | Nobody could stand against such fury . |
| 12 | Such property is identical to the person and may stand for that person in his or her absence . |
| 13 | Anthropologists , in turn , have attempted to argue that , for example , the transition from brideservice , in which labour is performed by the prospective groom , to bridewealth , where objects are given in exchange for the bride , marks a significant difference in the development of a phenomenon whereby objects may stand for human labour , with the implication that this is the first stage towards the conditions of property and alienation as we know them today ( Strathern 1985 ) . |
| 14 | According to the Iszvestiya report of June 19 the deficit would stand at 27,000 million roubles and would thus be within the limit set by the IMF . |
| 15 | Horst and Jurgen would stand to one side of the diggers and , as each turf was cut and while it was being stacked , they would investigate the hollow from which it had been removed . |
| 16 | If her party backed her , she said , she would stand in presidential elections later in the year . |
| 17 | In ancient times Chinese students would stand in this stance for hours upon end until their legs felt like lead . |
| 18 | As a child he had played a game with some of his friends where one child would stand behind another and put his hands round the other 's chest . |
| 19 | And Maisie would stand like some artist 's model , exhibiting her diseases as if they were her only claim on him . |
| 20 | Orders to the end of August stood at 1,423 : 708 in the UK , 325 in Europe and 390 elsewhere — whilst the total number of DRS6000 installations will stand at 6,000 by the end of the year , according to the company . |
| 21 | In the light of that , I am not clear where the Labour party will stand on this aspect of the Bill when we debate its Second Reading next Tuesday . |
| 22 | Next month x will stand for 8 and not 10 . |
| 23 | Thus , if the clause is reasonable it will stand for all the classes of liability under the UCTA for which exclusion is permitted if the requirement of reasonableness is satisfied . |
| 24 | The fences will stand for 20 years and be removed when the task is done . |
| 25 | John Hume , addressing the protesters , stressed that ‘ we are a peaceful and dignified people , but … we are a determined people and we will stand for these social , economic and political injustices no longer ’ . |
| 26 | Providing his French colleagues agree , which is akin to the BBC agreeing to retain Dan Maskell , he will stand for another four year term as President of the French Federation , which will take him through to early 1997 . |
| 27 | When CTCs and grant-maintained schools are merely ancient monuments maintained by English Heritage , The Education Reform Act 1988 will stand in one respect with Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights . |
| 28 | Ercans can stand on four legs or three legs , or two legs |
| 29 | can , we can stand on that . |
| 30 | No building can stand without firm foundations , and neither can a marriage . |