Example sentences of "standing [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Condensation might entail the one kind of subject and/or manifestation standing in for the whole domain of evil , incurring responsibility for the whole in the process of being made to signify it . |
| 2 | Simon had of ten seen him here , at this time of night , standing in for the owner , who had nipped across to the pub for a pie and a pint . |
| 3 | Manager Dick Graham immediately went back to his former club , West Bromwich Albion , and purchased Welsh International , Tony Millington to take over but , by the end of the year it was Jackson who was earning praise in the Palace goal after standing in for the injured Welshman and making his home debut against Cardiff on 28 November 1964 , and by the end of the season ‘ Jacko ’ , as he became popularly called , was in undisputed possession |
| 4 | Standing in for the injured Ian Smith , wicketkeeper Adam Parore took five catches in England 's first innings . |
| 5 | On 7 June an emergency meeting of the NSFU Executive was held at which Father Charles Hopkins , standing in for the absent Havelock Wilson , pointed out the disastrous financial effects which participation in such a stoppage might have on the union and the peril in which it might stand in respect of its hard won provincial settlements . |
| 6 | The chief academic and administrative officer of a Scottish university , he or she is usually styled ‘ principal and vice chancellor ’ , the latter title used when standing in for the chancellor on ceremonial occasions . |
| 7 | In Roman art or in an 18th century Temple of Worthies ( such as the one at Stowe ) the rules of rhetoric might be invoked to argue that the bust functions as synecdoche , the head standing in for the whole physical and active domain of the body . |
| 8 | The you so pointedly admonished is the addressee of the poem , Torquatus , a representative Roman , fictionally standing in for the reader at large . |
| 9 | He scored 218 runs , won the Man of the Match award and caught Imran while standing in as the understudy wicketkeeper for Kiran More . |
| 10 | Thierse replaced Markus Meckel , the Foreign Minister , who had been standing in since the March resignation of Ibrahim Böhme [ see p. 37302 ] . |
| 11 | Vice-chair was Wolfgang Thierse , who had been elected chair of the East German SPD on June 9 , 1990 , in place of Markus Meckel ( himself standing in since the March resignation of Ibrahim Böhme — see p. 37302 ) . |
| 12 | Thierse replaced Markus Meckel , the then Foreign Minister , who had been standing in since the March resignation of Ibrahim Böhme [ see p. 37302 ] . |
| 13 | increase in value added tax — but he is standing down at the general election . |
| 14 | Masked by the apparently careless tumble of examples ( ‘ etc. , etc. ’ ) is a calculated insistence on the sore spot , on what Shatov in the notebooks calls social unsteadiness , a small but virulent secular profanity standing over against the noble , perhaps the noblest sequence in The Possessed , where Marie Shatov returns to her husband to give birth to another man 's child . |
| 15 | The other had turned and was waiting for the Genoese , standing off on the landward side with her crossbowmen and hackbutters lining her port rail , fore and aft . |
| 16 | Fabbiano was standing off to the side , his arm raised like a parade marshal 's as he directed the models off stage . |
| 17 | This is a small town of some character , a historic strong point standing up above the Gave , in which there are competitions in summer to catch the surviving salmon , no longer so abundant here as in the good medieval days . |
| 18 | Erm the actual post I liked , I 'm glad it 's standing up above the horizon because at least that way , you know , i it does it 's given some dominance in the picture . |
| 19 | A leading liberal , Mr Martin Lee , whose United Democrats won a landslide in elections for the partially-democratic legislature in September , defined the Governor 's job differently : ‘ He must be committed to democratising Hong Kong and to standing up for the territory 's interests , especially in the case of conflict with Britain and China . |
| 20 | If the choice now is between shoring up a democratically bankrupt Westminster or standing up for the restoration of Scottish democracy , then I am for Scottish democracy . |
| 21 | That can often mean standing up for the client and criticising the system , ’ he says . |
| 22 | I should have thought that hon. Members would have got behind the work of the regulators , who are standing up for the interests of the customer . |
| 23 | " For people who take a sober view of life , " he said , " a person is liberal who is prepared not to take thought for his personal interests but to expend all his energy on standing up for the juridical independence of every citizen and the freedom of every action which does not undermine the well-being and the tranquillity of society " . |
| 24 | Though not normally noted for their philanthropy , lawyers say they are standing up for the common man and woman by condemning the Scottish Office plans to change civil legal aid and to a lesser extent legal advice and assistance . |
| 25 | And he made a number of management changes which reinforced the impression that Eurotunnel had become a company capable of acting in the best interests of bankers and shareholders and standing up to the demands of the Anglo-French contracting consortium . |
| 26 | By the end of the campaign , his average image score had risen to 65 but his score on standing up to the USSR had dropped to 56 . |
| 27 | Scores on this image ( standing up to the USSR ) were never very predictable for any politician . |
| 28 | There was one supreme test of the government 's resolve in ‘ standing up to the unions ’ , as the phrase went . |
| 29 | If doubt can conjure up images of heroism ( the David of Doubt standing up to the Goliath of Lies ) , it can just as easily represent what is most cowardly , indecisive and dictatorial in us all . |
| 30 | And yet the fascination among ( overwhelmingly white ) rock music critics with the big , scary black man ( talk about perpetrating stereotypes ! ) survives , to the point where NME is getting all teary-eyed about Brave Little Time-Warner , heroically standing up to the Huns of censorship . |