Example sentences of "stand [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In September 1947 Britain 's foreign secretary , Ernest Bevin , and France 's premier , Paul Ramadier , talked of uniting their colonial empires together , and socialist politicians including British premier Clement Attlee hoped to give the third force an ideological dimension : against American capitalism and Soviet communism , Europe would stand as the champion of democratic socialism , combining liberal political rights with radical social reform . |
| 2 | Ideally the combined written statement and budget estimate should stand as the Development or Corporate Plan of the governing body . |
| 3 | could stand as the epitome of the whole fabliau corpus . |
| 4 | Certainly Lady Lisa might stand as the embodiment of the old fancy , the symbol of the modern idea . |
| 5 | Having established the presence of money as pure symbol and medium of abstract and relational thought , Simmel goes on to address several major features of such a state and to show how money may stand as the quintessence of each . |
| 6 | DO NOT STAND BETWEEN THE PLATFORM EDGE AND THE YELLOW LINES . |
| 7 | Do not stand between the giver and receiver of a pass . |
| 8 | That 's including Chippingfield if you had seen it as we saw it when we came here you would recognise how much work has gone into building the town because I was on the the council then I was asked if I would stand for the council which was then only a parish council there was no urban district council that was n't formed for four or five years afterwards and of course , we had to fight for lights everything that , er that we needed we had to fight for because there was no lighting on Netteswell Road where our children were going to school , and there were little ones . |
| 9 | She came to me one day and asked me if I would stand for the council , which I did . |
| 10 | It was easier for Labour MPs and other party members to move to a new organization than to transfer to another party ; the SDP could stand for the memory of Attlee , Morrison and Gaitskell , and argue that the present-day Labour Party had moved away towards more extreme policies . |
| 11 | In which year did Enoch Powell stand for the leadership of the Conservative Party ? |
| 12 | The next day I received a visit from Humphrey Atkins , by then our Chief Whip , telling me in enthusiastic and forceful terms that I should stand for the leadership . |
| 13 | would not stand for the stallion ; |
| 14 | ( Let M stand for the weight of Mary 's bag . ) |
| 15 | I did not stand for the job ’ . |
| 16 | At this time Klaus announced that he would stand for the post of Czech ( rather than federal ) Prime Minister , a move described by the Independent of June 19 as the " clearest possible sign that the Czechs have finally given up on the federation which they had fought for " . |
| 17 | Benn joked to Ceauşescu that he should stand for the general-secretaryship of the Labour Party too ! |
| 18 | The Panama canal was not opened until after the outbreak of war in 1914 , but may stand for the completion of the world sea communications system . |
| 19 | The Official Secrets Act remains substantially intact , but it now has to be read with the additional defences available under the new legislation , happily with a pendant attached deriving from the Aitken case that juries will not stand for the use of oppressive legislation in cases of mild divulgence , and confidentiality has been confirmed as being available where secret information is breached without official justification . |
| 20 | Since we can not see how many , we will let the letter $ stand for the number of sweets in the box . |
| 21 | You can use algebra shorthand to rewrite this sentence by letting a letter stand for the number being thought of . |
| 22 | ( Let x stand for the number . ) |
| 23 | ( Let c stand for the number of balls . ) |
| 24 | You look all very well in that uniform now , but what chance will you stand after the war ? ’ |
| 25 | She would go and stand behind the sofa to pass her motion and when finished would demand that her mother remove the nappy immediately . |
| 26 | That basically meant that Government would not stand behind the project . |
| 27 | The shattered Empire , long a cauldron of factional strife , could not stand against the tide of Chaos . |
| 28 | They believe they have such an opportunity at the moment and no one here dares say where the pound may stand against the Deutschmark when the Chancellor rises to speak tomorrow . |
| 29 | Well that was one would stand against the wall and about four would get down like that and you had a team say of five . |
| 30 | When Chaos came he fought as best he could but he saw that the pitiful weapons of the Elves and the peaceful sorceries of the Everqueen could not stand against the might of the dark . |