Example sentences of "to stand [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PETER Swales announced today that he was ready to stand down as chairman of trouble-torn Manchester City . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Even Thatcherite loyalists were reported to be discussing the possibility of persuading her to stand down in favour of Major . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The candidate who took third place in the first round , however , Manandafy Rakotonirina , was expected to stand down in favour of Zafy . |
| 7 | Make a cylinder big enough for your child to stand in with comfort and cut out two eye holes . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Mr Grosz was the only senior politician yesterday with the courage to stand up for Communism in front of a hostile audience . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | At the election he stood as the architect 's architect , pledged to stand up for quality of design . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The whole system had been constructed to stand up to earthquake pressures . |
| 15 | Thank goodness for people prepared to stand up to authority and tackle the system they believe is wrong . ’ |
| 16 | With output recovering , the prime minister , Hanna Suchocka decided to stand up to Solidarity 's threat to call a general strike . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | So you 're going to stand up in front of a judge and say all that , are you , Wally ? |
| 19 | Miss Harker was certainly very charming and many had hoped that her arrival might bring them some relief , but not one of them wanted to stand up in front of the boss 's relative and complain about the mill . |
| 20 | There he was encouraged to stand up in front of other patients and describe his own particular addiction . |
| 21 | I mean we do n't whether she sort of it does n't say whether she volunteered to go and talk to the people in the school , but even so it 's quite it takes quite a lot of doing to stand up in front of a group of people you do n't know and talk about the work . |
| 22 | You 're going to stand up in front of a hundred or so of your closest friends and tell them your deepest , most private thoughts . ’ |
| 23 | Well of course tha that might just be intimidation by large numbers of other people , like you know having to stand up in front of a group of other people , I think anybody feels the same . |
| 24 | Some a lot of you said yesterday that you do n't always get in this formal situation having to stand up in front of people . |
| 25 | Fans in the seats are asked to stand up in solidarity . |
| 26 | Captain Faulknor was still concerned about the ship 's speed and said to Jenking , ‘ that it would be better to stand out to sea for the night . ’ |