Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [adv] stand " in BNC.
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| 1 | Language does not simply stand as a signifier for some thing , an exact reference between a word and a thing . |
| 2 | I think Mr Wright realises he has produced a piece of special pleading that does not wholly stand up , but it is difficult not to feel sympathy with his assertion : The past can not be changed , but what we make of it certainly can . |
| 3 | Hecate immediately warns the audience , in a speech displaced to the opening , that it is confronted by a chaotic world in which Scotland does not even stand where it did . |
| 4 | Chapters 4 to 6 are art historical , interpreting about 800 years , beginning with a time when a miniaturist copied approved models with almost or actual religious obedience , and ending in a period in the early Renaissance when an illuminator does not even stand up when the Chancellor of France enters the room or when John of Holland can complain that Jacquemart de Hesdin has stolen his private pattern sheets in 1398 . |
| 5 | ‘ The offer I made to him to buy his shares before all this unsavoury business began does not still stand . |
| 6 | It does not necessarily stand to gain by promoting the reproduction of its ‘ individual ’ plant . |
| 7 | I mean , it er portrait really is the right sort of subject to , to try out this kind of technique because er , it does n't have impact , and here because the green and the erm er , this , th for want of a better colour , it 's really red , it 's a sort of purply colour , they 're very dark and th the , the actual head does n't really stand out very much from the from the background , I think the background |