Example sentences of "stand [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fellow Cooperite Sir Brian Jenkins stands down as Mayor on 12 November . |
| 2 | PETER Swales announced today that he was ready to stand down as chairman of trouble-torn Manchester City . |
| 3 | MR NEIL KINNOCK and Mr Roy Hattersley — elected on Labour 's so-called ‘ dream ’ leadership ticket almost nine years ago — will announce today that they are to stand down as leader and deputy leader . |
| 4 | As part of the deal Mr de Ferranti agreed to stand down in favour of Sir Derek and to allow James Guerin , International Signal 's founder , to come on to the board as deputy chairman . |
| 5 | Even Thatcherite loyalists were reported to be discussing the possibility of persuading her to stand down in favour of Major . |
| 6 | Here the combined efforts of Richard Acland , Liberal MP for a neighbouring constituency , and the local Left Book Club helped to persuade the local Liberal and Labour parties to stand down in favour of Vernon Bartlett , a journalist , broadcaster and former employee of the LNU . |
| 7 | The candidate who took third place in the first round , however , Manandafy Rakotonirina , was expected to stand down in favour of Zafy . |
| 8 | Make a cylinder big enough for your child to stand in with comfort and cut out two eye holes . |
| 9 | Here then is an act that combines humility and repentance and stands along with baptism and communion as heavily symbolic ceremonies which require simple elements to carry them out . |
| 10 | Storry stands in for Mantle |
| 11 | Furthermore , a careful history and physical examination permit a confident diagnosis that stands up over time . |
| 12 | This is fine as long as the music stands up to scrutiny . |
| 13 | Their attitude scarcely stands up to scrutiny . |
| 14 | ‘ We are delighted with the results so far , especially the performance , which stands up to comparison with the rest of the sports car world . |
| 15 | This is not , however , a presumption that stands up to examination . |
| 16 | His hair always stands up on end ! |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And I get it green for when she stands up in class . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Mr Grosz was the only senior politician yesterday with the courage to stand up for Communism in front of a hostile audience . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | At the election he stood as the architect 's architect , pledged to stand up for quality of design . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The whole system had been constructed to stand up to earthquake pressures . |
| 27 | Thank goodness for people prepared to stand up to authority and tackle the system they believe is wrong . ’ |
| 28 | With output recovering , the prime minister , Hanna Suchocka decided to stand up to Solidarity 's threat to call a general strike . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | So you 're going to stand up in front of a judge and say all that , are you , Wally ? |