Example sentences of "stand [subord] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 However , in Bottomley v Ambler ( 1878 ) 38 LT 545 an arbitration award was allowed to stand although the principle had not been followed .
2 The relationship between early marriage and later infecundity also stands if the proportion of infecund women is regressed on the median age at first marriage .
3 Otherwise there is little of the ritual of the courts , though everyone is expected to stand when the tribunal members enter or leave .
4 With that , she turned and stalked away towards the exhibition stand where the photographer was waiting , camera slung over his shoulder .
5 Whichever way a point of law is resolved , including without lawyers being consulted , a decision on a point of law will stand unless the expert has asked himself the wrong question of law .
6 But they 're prepared to let it stand as the prices are at the moment cos they 're under pressure .
7 A circle of light illuminated the group gathered round the bank of screens ; another shone on the blue box , the battered structure that the Doctor call his TARDIS , standing where the androids had left it near the edge of the room .
8 The installation is not roped off , but people resist involvement , standing where the rope or white line is n't .
9 The horses were standing where the path opened out into a small glade .
10 He hung on to the semicircular rail around the outer edge , where they were standing because the businessmen who had got in after them had jostled them there , and she saw that his eyes were closed and that he had gone gray with fear about the drop .
11 They have now got superior 4 × 4 transmissions , diff locks and the rest , and doubtless would leave the Trooper literally standing when the chips were down off-road .
12 But there 's still the need to first get rid of the modern slums which replaced the Victorian slums standing when the tower block was just a few lines on an architect 's sketch board .
13 Engineers are finding ways to keep them standing when the ground starts to move .
14 Engineers are finding ways to keep them standing when the ground moves
15 Another , similar , was on a house which stood where the Institute ( now a shop ) stands , and many of the nooks and crannies of the wandering streets would have been tempting places to sit out and spin in summer weather .
16 The original Quinta Vigia stood where the Casino now is and no longer exists .
17 Sculpted from white plaster like the students ' statue , the new monument has been erected on the spot where the democracy movement 's impertinent icon of defiance stood until the People 's Liberation Army arrived on 4 June .
18 The result stood because the referee , after consulting his linesmen , decided that Scott could have seen the ball coming at him .
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