Example sentences of "stood [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " We stood off the Belgian coast near Nieuport that evening and received information that Spring Flight had embarked a party of Pakistanis and was leaving harbour . |
| 2 | By May , New Guinea alone stood between the victorious Japanese and Australia . |
| 3 | A rectangular conference table and four chairs , of a type provided for senior public servants , stood between the tall windows . |
| 4 | He stood as the Liberal Party candidate in Edinburgh in the 1966 and 1970 elections and joined the BNP two years ago . |
| 5 | Dr Clarke , a retired headmaster who once stood as the Liberal candidate for Edinburgh Pentlands , is a prominent member of the far right . |
| 6 | Despite a boycott in parts of Abkhazia , over 75 per cent of the electorate turned out to vote in the elections , in which Shevardnadze stood as the only candidate . |
| 7 | Kinloch stood as the Whig candidate in the election that followed , and in December of that year was elected the first MP for the borough . |
| 8 | I stood as the Green Party candidate in May 1988 and 1989 . |
| 9 | Creed had requisitioned an open car , and he stood for the entire procession , as a mark of his own personal respect for the deceased . |
| 10 | The ‘ Snap ’ camera was used with the supplied software , ( not suitable as it stood for the required measuring instrument ) . |
| 11 | In my case , the first and most important candle stood for the dark forest . |
| 12 | Her fragmentation into little states , split between Protestantism and Catholicism , has been exacerbated by a split between those who wanted Western or Eastern orientation : the West , represented by the rationalism and domination of France , the liberalism and mercantilism of England , or the modernism of the United States , stood for the individual standing in a contractual relationship to society , nation-statehood and world political power ; while the East , represented by Russia and Asia beyond implied culture , tradition , anti-modernism , barbarity , community and political romanticism . |
| 13 | ( This is how the story is recorded in Luke 13:6–9 , where the fig tree stood for the self-righteous people , such as the Pharisees , who made a great show of their religion but produced few results . |
| 14 | As the credits rolled my mother and father , like most filmgoers of that generation , stood for the National Anthem . |
| 15 | Rawlings , who had retired from the air force on Sept. 14 in order to comply with electoral rules excluding serving members of the armed forces from candidacy , stood for the National Democratic Congress ( NDC ) [ see p. 39084 ] . |
| 16 | In 1964 he stood for the pretty safe ( at the time ) Conservative seat of Glasgow Pollok . |
| 17 | But our to avoid that situation I left and went to work with which kept me in the Edinburgh branch and within three or four weeks I stood for the local organizer and had not been successful . |
| 18 | Base rate was on Sept. 22 further reduced to 9 per cent ( its lowest level since mid-1988 and the first time since 1981 that it stood below the German Lombard rate ) . |
| 19 | The latter formerly stood opposite the main entrance to the mill . |
| 20 | Tweed stood behind the heavy net curtains masking the windows of his Park Crescent office , watching the trees in distant Regent 's Park shuffle and shudder under the wind 's onslaught . |
| 21 | In the village shop , Mrs Hollidaye introduced Dot to the man in a brown overall who stood behind the wooden counter . |
| 22 | The ‘ new ’ building was erected in 1229 to replace the Broletto Vecchio , the old Broletto , which stood near the present Piazzetta Reale . |
| 23 | I looked around ; Clinton , Dacourt and others now stood near the main steps of the chateau , Throgmorton with them . |
| 24 | A young lady stood near the very centre of the circle , still on the arm of a much older gentleman whose attentive pose betokened a parental or protective association with his eager , fashionable young companion , who behaved as if she were very conscious of being watched and admired . |
| 25 | However , she realised the wisdom of his words , but hunger and the sound of the lunch bell caused her to discard all thoughts of a long soak , and instead of running a bath she stood beneath the soothing waters of a hot shower . |
| 26 | What told most against Pétain , however , was that while Joffre , Foch and de Castelnau all swam vigorously with the current , he alone stood against the prevailing tide of the de Grandmaison movement . |
| 27 | For a few years a lean-to building stood against the remaining old wall which sheltered the homeless and I have spoken to one old inhabitant of Halling who remembers coming to the village as a young child and whose parents , being unable to afford other accommodation , sheltered there . |
| 28 | He stood against the rust-streaked wall of the refrigerator factory , his thin tail clamped against the November drizzle , lower lip dangling . |
| 29 | George Lansbury , speaking at Shoreditch Town Hall in January 1924 , reminded the monarch that ‘ Some centuries ago a King stood against the common people and he lost his head . ’ |
| 30 | As I headed towards shelter , I glanced south , where the broad shoulders of a mountain — its name is Mont Salève — stood against the troubled sky . |