Example sentences of "stand [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes his willingness to raise the alarm is literally the only thing that stands between an old person and the possibility of a lonely and lingering death following a fall or sudden illness . |
| 2 | The rule of law , then , stands as a central element of the British Constitution , but no one is sure precisely what it means . |
| 3 | In Masterman 's view , the Battle of Orgreave stands as a salutary reminder that ‘ what is omitted from television 's agenda can not easily enter the general consciousness and that the control of information , whether it takes a brutal or sophisticated form , is the very cornerstone of political power ’ ( ibid.:108 ) . |
| 4 | The ‘ thick description ’ takes on a type of metaphoric quality : it stands as a symbolic indication of some wider social meaning within the culture which is elicited through critical interpretation . |
| 5 | For community self-help programmes , Malawi in southern Africa stands as a shining example , having completed well over 30 piped water schemes with the willing toil of rural communities . |
| 6 | For now , their impudent , untutored music stands as a shining example of talent as yet untainted by the demands of The Man . |
| 7 | One of the mill towers still stands as a private house and the old ropery is the base for an antiques shop . |
| 8 | Ralph Waldo Emerson 's remark stands as a typical example : ‘ As men 's prayers are a disease of the will , so are their creeds a disease of the intellect . ’ |
| 9 | First , implicature stands as a paradigmatic example of the nature and power of pragmatic explanations of linguistic phenomena . |
| 10 | Only the spire of the church could be saved , and today it stands as a stark reminder of that devastating night in August 1989 . |
| 11 | In the early 1980s detectors were becoming even more sophisticated and versatile , particularly in their ability to cut out ferrous metal and locate small coins ; the increase in the finding of Celtic silver minims and medieval hammered farthings stands as a good testimony to that . |
| 12 | Rather it stands as a nasty addition this winter to the equation which leads to accidents year in , year out . |
| 13 | The way in which polling day is conducted , little altered since secret ballots were introduced , stands as a reliable landmark in a volatile political scene . |
| 14 | His best work has a direct simplicity , benefits from its autobiographical inspiration , and stands as a worthy memorial to all those who died in the Spanish civil war . |
| 15 | One building stands as a lone design example in the middle of a prepared expensive living area . |
| 16 | It stands as a sympathetic appraisal by a critic who is trusting largely to his own intuitive sense of quality : |
| 17 | But she was always adored by the British public , especially the people of Swindon , where a statue stands as a permanent memorial . |
| 18 | Rushdie may not project an image immediately attractive to everyone , but that principle stands as an absolute or not at all . |
| 19 | Your letter stands as an eloquent obituary to a fine guitarist who I 'm sure will be missed by all of us . |
| 20 | Perhaps in the area of man-made climates has the physical geographer climatologist contribution been most significant and the work of T.J. Chandler ( 1965 ) on the Climate of London stands as an exemplary model in this field , and subsequent research by B.W. Atkinson on thunderstorm activity ( see Atkinson , 1979 ) clearly demonstrates the kind of contribution that can be made to document the inadvertent effects of man . |
| 21 | More interestingly , however , this switch somehow indexes a culture for which this goal stands as an ideal : building your own place is a plausible goal in the Jamaican culture but very unusual in Britain , especially for a black person . |
| 22 | Although it stands as an important account of new anthropological theory and purports to throw a revealing light on the social organisation of Balinese society , its carefully organised narrative is also a good story arranged so the shifts between Geertz 's account of his gradual development as an aficionado of cockfighting and the development of his theory of the social significance of this sport merge . |
| 23 | Having said all that , the Freudian model stands as an indispensable starting-point for identifying a certain kind of homophobia , namely that conjunction of hatred , paranoia , and desire ( repressed , ambivalent , or overt ) which characterizes some of those same heterosexually identified men in their relationships with lesbian and gay people . |
| 24 | She stands for a long moment . |
| 25 | They will have done him no good in the housing movement , which recognises that my hon. Friend stands for a real commitment , typical of this Government , to the needs of homeless people . |
| 26 | M stands for a thousand , so a 10M potency , for instance , has been diluted 1 in 100 , ten thousand times . |
| 27 | ‘ Organization ’ here stands for a separate small company or a self-governed part of a large company . |
| 28 | If you are to be awkward then my mother will not know where she stands for a good deal of time . ’ |
| 29 | The ANC stands for a new South Africa , a South Africa in which racism shall be a thing of the past , where human dignity and equality shall prevail in the life of the country and its people , where the goals enshrined in the Freedom Charter shall be transformed into a living reality . |
| 30 | GREENPEACE STANDS FOR A SAFE AND NUCLEAR-FREE WORLD . |