Example sentences of "they stand [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They stand for modern , improved , and mechanised farming as opposed to indigenous and backward farming , and so on . |
| 2 | There is a loose connection between men , forest and spirits , and they stand in collective opposition to the world of women which centres on the villages and the clearings . |
| 3 | They stand in sharp contrast to the more open , and accessible British model . |
| 4 | Such pairs of things are like a causal circumstance and its effect in that they stand in fundamental nomic or necessary connection ( 1.3 ) , which is to say some connection stated by an independent nomic conditional statement . |
| 5 | In fact they stood for National War Museum . |
| 6 | They stood with rigid tension listening to the brooding silence of the jungle all around them . |
| 7 | They walked slowly up the church path , past the old graves , those so seared by time and weather that they stood as grey shapes furred with lichen , names and dates no longer legible , uniform in obscurity . |
| 8 | Now , bearded to bandaged face , they stood in utter stillness . |
| 9 | When those brief moments of ecstasy were over and the everyday world took precedence again , they stood in shocked silence while Bert Rafferty carried Celia up the cliff . |
| 10 | They stood in deep shadow by the wall of the bridge . |
| 11 | Above the rush and scurry of the traffic they stood in monumental stillness , each leaf precisely outlined against the deep blue sky . |
| 12 | They stood in fascinated awe as the immense panelled surface slid past . |
| 13 | The club-mosses and horsetails were still , for the most part , swamp-dwellers and there they stood in dense ranks , 30 metres tall , some with woody trunks two metres in diameter . |
| 14 | They stood like god-shaped statues among the small , intelligent females . |
| 15 | The edge of the crater was marked with huge splinters of stone torn up from the bedrock under the sands ; they stood like broken teeth around the scene , pointing at the sky or fallen slanted over . |
| 16 | The project involved an in-depth analysis of British Steel 's operating units to examine how they stood against international competition . |