Example sentences of "stand [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yep , PHIL ‘ BUTTER FINGERS ’ KING puts on his green jersey and stands between the anorak goalposts . |
| 2 | He also described the Anglican clergyman as ‘ the self-conceited , pedantic , presumptuous priest … [ who ] stands between the flower and the sun … the soul and God . ’ |
| 3 | Just as Adam stands between the forces of good and evil , so do we stand between the heroic action and qualities of Christ and the fallen Angel of Light , and just as man did in the beginning , we too , as humans , fall prey to the tempter at each individual reading of the epic . |
| 4 | If the patient is being moved between two chairs , the second carer stands between the chairs , again behind the patient . |
| 5 | Emphasizing the intellectual approach , Hourcade was the first of the many writers to relate Cubist painting to Kantian aesthetics , and in one of his articles includes a quotation from Schopenhauer : ‘ Kant 's greatest service was to distinguish between the appearance of a thing and the thing in itself , and he showed that our intelligence stands between the thing and us . ’ |
| 6 | Once a character has been wounded , he will not be attacked again unless he stands between the Carrion and one or more unwounded characters . |
| 7 | for every legislative enactment constitutes a diktat by the state to the citizen which he is not only expected but obliged to observe in the regulation of his daily life and it is the judge and the judge alone who stands between the citizen and the state 's own interpretation of its own rules . |
| 8 | That is to say , he stands between the client and the outcome of his instruction and is therefore identified as the one most responsible for a project 's success or failure . |
| 9 | With so many of Lotus Engineering 's successes having to remain secret , the Corvette Indy stands as the company 's most compelling advertisement . |
| 10 | In this case , a consonant , either , or a nasal , stands as the centre of the syllable instead of the vowel . |
| 11 | She stands as the martyr of organized and systematic sexual wrong-doing on the part of the man who should be her mate , and whom alone she has evolved to the human plane . |
| 12 | It stands as the view that an action is wrong if its consequences , in terms of pain promoted and pleasure prevented , outweigh its consequences in terms of pleasure promoted and pain prevented , and that other actions are right , even if not the best possible . |
| 13 | Either way , a cheerful and faintly self-questioning sufficiency stands as the hallmark of the modern British literary mind , and it is without obvious sources at home or abroad . |
| 14 | Nonetheless , George Albert Smith 's name stands as the inventor of a colour process which was viable , which was shown worldwide , and which presented for the first time on the screen a photographically produced colour picture . |
| 15 | — The altar with its twelve pillars ( verse 4 ) stands for the bringing of the whole people of God into his presence ( for there were twelve tribes of Israel ) . |
| 16 | RD stands for the index figure for the month in which the disposal occurs . |
| 17 | Ndembu say that the sapling 's pliancy stands for the girl 's immaturity and youth : the tree is sometimes stated to be the novice 's ‘ matrilineage ’ , and its leaves her ‘ children ’ . |
| 18 | At the mere mention of a coat , she sits , eyes closed , nose pointing upwards to have it slipped on , then stands for the belt to be fastened . |
| 19 | Remember that velocity stands for the ratio of total spending over a period of time to the stock of money available . |
| 20 | He gives the obvious explanation that Shakespeare has read Ovid on Salmacis , and spices it with the assurance that Adonis stands for the Earl of Southampton , whom he keeps calling Wriothesley . |
| 21 | The P stands for the land area on which the crop stands . |
| 22 | The revolutionary democracy of Russia stands for the indivisibility of the State . |
| 23 | As ‘ sacrament ’ it stands for the sacrifice of the cross through which we were brought near to God . |
| 24 | Peter stands for the Church under persecution . |
| 25 | Thus , for example , the Labour Party in Britain supposedly stands for the redistribution of wealth , the maintenance of a national health and social security system , considerable government intervention in the economy and so on . |
| 26 | She stands for the civilization of the South , of the Midi , the home of the troubadours , against the sterner , rougher , cruder world of the North , represented , in this image , by her husband , the King of the North Wind , whose authority she is subtly undermining and against whom she will soon break out in open rebellion . |
| 27 | In the following examples , the letter " n " stands for the number , or numbers in the answer set . |
| 28 | However if you were let in to the secret that x stands for the number 10 then you can work out this problem in the following way unc |
| 29 | The unique marble hall , which gave its name to the palace , was screened with boards that served as exhibition stands for the photographs , diagrams and models . |
| 30 | where IR stands for the Band 7 reading and R ( red ) for the Band 5 reading . |