Example sentences of "stand [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHEN a bowl of gruel is all that stands between a toddler and death , it was wonderful to see little Issi gain his salvation in Somalia . |
| 2 | It stands as a qualification to the problems of public good provision . |
| 3 | In the old South , for example , Duke University stands as a bastion of what Hollander would call ‘ anti-American ’ thought . |
| 4 | Whether he really existed or not , he stands as a type of the most bloodthirsty and battle-frenzied of Celtic warriors . |
| 5 | Within the narrative of Greenblatt 's book — opening with him considering the ‘ magic ’ of Shakespeare revivifying the dead in Greenblatt 's own voice , concluding with Greenblatt considering Shakespeare as substitute fetish for the book which the natives believed was stealing their life — this latter story also stands as a type of anecdote or fable about part of New Historicism 's critical enterprise . |
| 6 | England in reply were dismissed for 454 , with Les Ames ( 137 ) and ‘ Gubby ’ Allen ( 122 ) putting on an eighth-wicket partnership of 246 , which still stands as a Test record for that wicket . |
| 7 | I know that they do have computer science courses at both O level and A level , do you think these will be the basis of the future courses , or are we looking for an entirely new development , something quite new and quite different , that stands as a subject in his own right ? |
| 8 | Just as the church at Aughton stands as a touchstone of the spirit of the Derwent Ings , so the little church of St Thomas a Becket at Fairfield represents all the romance and loneliness of Romney Marsh . |
| 9 | Much has been written about Kaplan 's magnificent obsession with that work , and with the projects born of this love : his purchase of the manuscript , his subsequent publication in 1986 of a facsimile score with comprehensive documentation that stands as a touchstone in the field of book production . |
| 10 | Yes , well Eyre there stands as a sort of a paradigmatic modern philosopher , and when I was saying earlier that it was just a logical construction to help you to talk about particular things , and I think Eyre would go along with that . |
| 11 | Yes , well , Ayer , there , stands as a sort of paradigmatic modern philosopher . |
| 12 | One of the first examples of a curvilinear glasshouse , it stands as a reminder of bygone eras in Belfast 's history . |
| 13 | This mysterious alignment of metal-clad monoliths stands as a reminder of an earlier civilisation . |
| 14 | NFC stands as a monument to the irrelevance of both nationalisation and denationalisation ; and as a monument to the vision of Sir Peter Thompson and his colleagues whose commitment to employee involvement has made the transport group , which was floated in February , the one privatisation that got away . |
| 15 | In the years when Hartley was building Albert Dock and other extensions of the system , Liverpool was rapidly becoming established as the second most important port in Britain , and Albert Dock , which has outlived its usefulness , stands as a monument both to Hartley and to Liverpool 's Victorian prosperity . |
| 16 | The canons ' tower is still there ; indeed the citizens — by a strange romantic gesture — built it yet higher in the nineteenth century ; and it stands as a monument to the forces and struggles which made Milan at once a centre of intense parochial jealousies , and of international fame and meaning , in the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 17 | And Schweitzer 's own subsequent work in Africa , whose guiding principle he described as ‘ reverence for life ’ , stands as a monument to his understanding of what that spirit and that following meant . |
| 18 | Even in that period , reactions were not always as bad as these ; in 1618 the water-poet John Taylor had a wonderful Scottish holiday ( having gone there , as a result of a bet with Ben Jonson , without money , so that his account stands as a testimony to the generosity of the Scots ) . |
| 19 | In the second instance of the link between the mother and the return to darkness , it can be seen how the mother in our everyday world stands as a figure in which the individual may lose him or herself . |
| 20 | By contrast , the films made to exploit the vitality , comic talent and phenomenal singing voice of Grace Fields are at their best when set not against a showbusiness background , but in the midst of depressed working-class communities where Fields stands as a beacon of cheerfulness and hope . |
| 21 | Even with its present difficulties , the European Community stands as a beacon of economic success and political stability in Europe . |
| 22 | It was a hard , bloody fight lasting 3 hours and 16 minutes ( this time still stands as a world record for a championship fight ) before Burke knocked out Byrne with a tremendous punch , thus becoming recognised champion . |
| 23 | The point will be made to the world that Mexico stands as a nation for the principle that a healthy environment is essential for the common future of humanity , with particular stress on the quality of life our children will inherit . |
| 24 | The curious nature of the first-person plural relationship in the Sonnets [ + ego , + tu ] is that it is so infrequent ( twelve times only ) and that even when it occurs it is tenuous , fragile , or , as here , stands for a union in falseness . |
| 25 | When numbers are written as figures a given digit stands for a word . |
| 26 | No more can x be " something which stands for a number " since one could equally well imagine it standing for a matrix or even the differential operator |
| 27 | If y stands for a number , then y + y + y + y stands for a number 4 times larger than y . |
| 28 | If y stands for a number , then y + y + y + y stands for a number 4 times larger than y . |
| 29 | ( ( a ) is done for you. ) unc Another shorthand technique is the following : example If K stands for a number , |
| 30 | It is not easy to find a general definition of the normal meaning of irony , but it usually stands for a process by which the content of a statement is qualified either by the reader 's attribution of a contrary intention to the author , or by the reader 's awareness of factors that are in conflict in one way or another with what is being said . |