Example sentences of "stand up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then I 've got ta meet Emma and she stands up at the top . |
| 2 | It is a small but spread-out , almost incoherent town , the pleasantest part of which stands up above the river and has a row of modest hotels . |
| 3 | I think the bit that stands up above the horizon is fine , I mean I think that gives you a good idea of what it would have been like had you been able to get the whole , or not perhaps the whole of it , but a lot more of the post up above the horizon simply by getting down lower . |
| 4 | Bob Murray finds out how well a big green luxury saloon stands up to the strain of chauffeuring a discerning family of four around France |
| 5 | The star reincarnates his No Name as an avenging ghost in a High Noon -style rotten community , forcing them to paint their town red before he stands up to the killers who are about to ride through and finally saving the place only by burning it down ( a process the US army tried in Vietnam ) . |
| 6 | Bauhaus ' ‘ Dark Entries ’ remains a ferocious blue ( black ) print ; Danse Society 's ‘ We 're So Happy ’ is surprisingly epic and coolly resonant ; and mid-'80s music hall like X-Mal Deutschland , Sex Gang Children , Specimen and Alien Sex Fiend stands up to the test of time . |
| 7 | Forests get hacked down because nobody stands up to the logging industry . |
| 8 | Helen chose a small-patterned carpet that stands up to the combined wear and tear of two dogs , two cats and three children . |
| 9 | It remains to be seen how Taggart 's vision stands up to the floodlights — and the driving rain . |
| 10 | Labour must , once again , be the party that stands up for the individual against the vested interests that hold him or her back … |
| 11 | Even now if I look at a video the hair still stands up on the back of the neck , and you get that tingle on the spine . |
| 12 | He stands up with the assistance of the therapist : he may do his trousers up while the therapist makes sure he remains properly aligned and upright , or the therapist may fasten the trousers while the patient concentrates on standing and balancing . |
| 13 | ( Actually ‘ Boggers ’ is really called Mister Jones , but his hair stands up like the bristles on a bog er … toilet brush , hence his nickname . ) |
| 14 | HP 's software effort for the new servers included endorsement from a veritable who's-who of mainframe software houses , all eager to stand up on the platform and say that their customers were queueing up to leave the IBM mainframe world behind . |
| 15 | Maginnis , and by implication the Official Unionists , were weak and failed to stand up for the common man . |
| 16 | Hadlee professes great admiration for New Zealand 's wicketkeepers of modern times , the late Ken Wadsworth , and the incumbent record-holder , Ian Smith : ‘ But James had that ability to stand up for the one down the leg side , and the bails would be off in a flash . |
| 17 | Kinnock improved his image most on being energetic and decisive but actually lost ground on being able to stand up to the USSR , reflecting perhaps the consequences of his ‘ dad 's army ’ interview with David Frost . |
| 18 | On being able to stand up to the USSR , Thatcher scored 80 per cent in the precampaign week , easing to 79 per cent in the last fortnight of the campaign . |
| 19 | In the longer term the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees tried to help individual farmers to eke out an adequate living , encourage the organization of small farmers at the village level , and foster the growth of a farming structure better able to stand up to the rigours of occupation than the present one in which middlemen and large landowners dominated agriculture . |
| 20 | The problem is to develop a device which as well as demonstrating a high degree of efficiency in converting wave energy into electricity , is also robust enough to stand up to the buffeting and corrosion of the sea . |
| 21 | They ought to stand up to the goons . ’ |
| 22 | He is right to change the emphasis of the list and we urge him to stand up to the civil servants who are resisting change . |
| 23 | Since this high work of fracture — which makes trees able to stand up to the buffetings of life and which makes wood such a useful material — can not be accounted for by any of the recognized work of fracture mechanisms which operate in man-made composites , George set out to find out what was really happening . |
| 24 | They spoke after the borough council 's planning committee decided last night to stand up to the Home Office by objecting to the £14 million expansion , intended to ease the prison 's long-standing and often chronic overcrowding problem . |
| 25 | He was about to stand up to the policeman when Duncan spoke . |
| 26 | A Japanese-led bloc of Asian nations would be militarily and economically secure , and able to stand up to the threat posed by the nations of Europe and by the United States . |
| 27 | And thirdly increasing emphasis , not on the socialist politics of the Communist Party in the nineteen twenties , but on the development of a nationalist ideology which could appeal to all classes in Chinese society who were interested in getting the Japanese out and who were angered by the Kuomintang government 's inability to stand up to the Japanese . |
| 28 | ‘ If you wanted to find out how an astronaut 's body was likely to stand up to the strain of living on a very , very heavy planet , is there some way of testing it before actually visiting the planet ? ’ |
| 29 | But what a pity that , when the heat was on — when the law of the land was being challenged by Labour councillors up and down the country , and by Members of Parliament — the Opposition Front Bench was found wanting , and failed to stand up to the rule of law . |
| 30 | However , much of the hostility aroused by the subcommittee 's report appeared to be directed towards the United Kingdom government , which was widely accused of failing to stand up to the Chinese over Hong Kong 's future . |