Example sentences of "stand [prep] all the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ann stands for all the women of common-sense , warm affection , and practical piety that Edward repeatedly attempted to sketch realistically or to record in dream-like settings in his essays and sketches . |
| 2 | I have ended the story with killing and bloodshed because I want to leave that picture before your eyes — a picture which stands for all the anguish and hardship and disappointment and dangers anyone going to Eretz must expect . |
| 3 | Emerson rejects convention and in doing so stands for all the values that Forster believed to be most important — authenticity and truth . |
| 4 | That I belong to a sort of band of people who have to stand against all the rest . |
| 5 | OF THE world 's leading entertainers , one name stands above all the rest — the incomparable Frank Sinatra . |
| 6 | In the garden Shaw 's meagre writing hut still stands with all the innocent technology of his art — his toothbrush , thermometer , alarm clock , narrow bed . |
| 7 | I stand in all the wrong places … ’ |
| 8 | You should both know exactly where you stand on all the major issues of planning , right from the start , so that mutually acceptable decisions can be made well ahead of time . |
| 9 | There is then an attempt to generalize and move towards a universal ‘ myth ’ that can stand for all the utterances of a similar type in their various discursive contexts . |
| 10 | Thus , if the clause is reasonable it will stand for all the classes of liability under the UCTA for which exclusion is permitted if the requirement of reasonableness is satisfied . |
| 11 | Now the probings of the BBC interviewers , those secular confessors who stood for all the modern torturers goading and vexing him — the critics , the reviewers , the Stroud tax-man who sniffed out Waugh 's lucrative tax-dodges — were inside . |
| 12 | All this time , nobody quite knew where he stood on all the other issues — the ones that would matter after independence . |