Example sentences of "stand up [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , a careful history and physical examination permit a confident diagnosis that stands up over time . |
| 2 | This is fine as long as the music stands up to scrutiny . |
| 3 | Their attitude scarcely stands up to scrutiny . |
| 4 | ‘ We are delighted with the results so far , especially the performance , which stands up to comparison with the rest of the sports car world . |
| 5 | This is not , however , a presumption that stands up to examination . |
| 6 | His hair always stands up on end ! |
| 7 | IT CA N'T be very long before a rapist or a murderer stands up in court and pleads in defence : ‘ It was n't me , Your Honour , it was the Press . ’ |
| 8 | For instance , when he is wheeled to the toilet , he stands up in order to get into the wheelchair , and again to move onto the toilet , instead of being lifted or transferred . |
| 9 | And I get it green for when she stands up in class . |
| 10 | Accordingly , nothing in his framework was designed to stand up for liberty where the legislature saw fit to intervene with new restrictive laws , or where the courts contrived to discover or develop them ; Dicey simply assumed that this would not occur . |
| 11 | Mr Grosz was the only senior politician yesterday with the courage to stand up for Communism in front of a hostile audience . |
| 12 | Germany 's Jewish Council , noting Monday 's anniversary of the Nazis ' 1938 Kristallnacht ( Night of the Shattering Glass ) pogrom , said the Right-wing resurgence obliged Germans more than ever before to stand up for democracy and tolerance . |
| 13 | At the election he stood as the architect 's architect , pledged to stand up for quality of design . |
| 14 | Love wo n't change the history of the world ( that nonsense about Cleopatra 's nose is strictly for sentimentalists ) , but it will do something much more important : teach us to stand up to history , to ignore its chin-out strut . |
| 15 | This aspect of the writing of reports has been exaggerated to impress on you that every report , even the least important , must be able to stand up to expert cross-examination . |
| 16 | The whole system had been constructed to stand up to earthquake pressures . |
| 17 | Thank goodness for people prepared to stand up to authority and tackle the system they believe is wrong . ’ |
| 18 | With output recovering , the prime minister , Hanna Suchocka decided to stand up to Solidarity 's threat to call a general strike . |
| 19 | We all had to stand up in turn in front of the class and give a short talk , followed by a question-and-answer session . |
| 20 | So you 're going to stand up in front of a judge and say all that , are you , Wally ? |
| 21 | Miss Harker was certainly very charming and many had hoped that her arrival might bring them some relief , but not one of them wanted to stand up in front of the boss 's relative and complain about the mill . |
| 22 | There he was encouraged to stand up in front of other patients and describe his own particular addiction . |
| 23 | I mean we do n't whether she sort of it does n't say whether she volunteered to go and talk to the people in the school , but even so it 's quite it takes quite a lot of doing to stand up in front of a group of people you do n't know and talk about the work . |
| 24 | You 're going to stand up in front of a hundred or so of your closest friends and tell them your deepest , most private thoughts . ’ |
| 25 | Well of course tha that might just be intimidation by large numbers of other people , like you know having to stand up in front of a group of other people , I think anybody feels the same . |
| 26 | Some a lot of you said yesterday that you do n't always get in this formal situation having to stand up in front of people . |
| 27 | Fans in the seats are asked to stand up in solidarity . |
| 28 | ‘ Stand Up for Fun ’ , filmed at Nidri , quickly introduces novices windsurfers to essentials , leading to the use of footstraps and harnesses . |
| 29 | Austin Mitchell ( Lab , Great Grimsby ) said the Government should ‘ deal with Russian imports by a dumping ban on a temporary basis , provide financial support , stand up for fishing , instead of blaming the fishermen ’ . |
| 30 | Actually in the next few days stand up at home , speak it , say it , record it if you want to . |