Example sentences of "[adv] stand " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rore properly stands at the head of this roll-call , above all for his madrigals which are both artistically and historically more important than his generally rather conservative Masses and motets . |
| 2 | ‘ They all reported to the police station they 'd been assigned to and they all went on to stand trial . ’ |
| 3 | Rose had moved back a little to stand in front of one of the shop windows , scanning the crowd with knowing eyes . |
| 4 | The answer is you do , providing it is n't wild and wet , but then little stands up to that . |
| 5 | His eyes narrowed on her face , he put his cup down , stripped off his apron , and walked slowly to stand beside her chair so that she was forced to look up at him . |
| 6 | Somewhere to stand |
| 7 | ‘ Have been reading ’ , I realized even as I struggled to find somewhere to stand the strawboard in the darkness , makes a somewhat smaller claim than ‘ have read ’ , and I scarcely expect that my ‘ books ’ , to anyone outside the very restricted world of philosophical studies , are going to include the two on Spinoza ; all of which suggests a second-hand and partial acquaintance with my only other work , Natural Man . |
| 8 | Bernard , if we have any time to spare , better to stand and gaze at the name of the very street we live in , ‘ Mafeking ’ , and contemplate its significance . |
| 9 | The Front 's traditional candidate in the town told reporters that ‘ my friend Jean-Marie would do better to stand elsewhere ’ explaining that Niçois voters did not trust outsiders ! |
| 10 | Today , manual remuage is still widely used , but it is carried out on specially designed wooden boards , hinged together to stand like an inverted ‘ V ’ and known as pupitres ( the French for reading desks ) . |
| 11 | ( This account obviously stands in marked contrast to Foucault 's explanation of the same historical phenomenon . ) |
| 12 | Both restrictive and non-restrictive adjectives in sentences such as ( 3 ) are alike in that they instantiate the P in : ( 6 ) [ P E ] The difference between the two possibilities is solely that , in cases of non-restriction , the speaker is aware that the identification carried out by the noun phrase as a whole is the same as it would be if the adjective ( limiting ourselves to adjectival instances ) were not present ; in essence , we have the situation as in ( 7 ) ( where the sign =i obviously stands for equality on the parameter of identification , and not for the intensional relation of equation ) : ( 7 ) In practice , the situation is almost always somewhat more complicated in English , because there will nearly always be a determiner ; thus the non-restrictive status of the adjective in the subject phrase of ( 8 ) can be represented by the formula ( 9 ) , with Pb as the adjectival property and Pc as the property inherent in the noun ( while Pa represents the word this ) : ( 8 ) this Christian Pope committed most unchristian acts ( 9 ) Nevertheless , the presence of other elements in a noun phrase beside the non-restrictive adjective and the noun itself in no way alters the principle involved . |
| 13 | ‘ Let me invite you to dinner in an hour , ’ said George , ‘ and ’ — this was addressed to Mrs Robinson , who had crept in to stand in the doorway and hear the end of the story , and now stepped forward to play a part — ‘ please , let us borrow your daughter for the evening so that we four can be a company . |
| 14 | One has only to stand on the bridge over the Trannon at Trefeglwys and look upstream to see the stable narrow river coursing elegantly between its magnificent borders of ash and sycamore , and compare this with the immediate downstream reach , which wanders amidst a waste of gravel . |
| 15 | To move would be impossible ( and yet I have only to stand up , pull off the bracelets , announce an end to all this … ) . |
| 16 | One has only to stand back and survey the scope of changes and the timescales involved to appreciate the problems encountered by senior management . |
| 17 | The food plant for both the small tortoiseshell and the peacock is the stinging nettle , so to stand the best chance of finding their caterpillars , start inspecting large clumps of nettles about the middle of May . |
| 18 | About a third of the way along stands the comfortable red-brick house that John 's father built in 1938 . |
| 19 | Inside , the tunnel was shored up with beams and was high enough to stand up in . |
| 20 | In there you 'll find a sink on the floor , just large enough to stand in , and you can have a good long soak up to your knees . |
| 21 | I hope all these very pretty sentiments about not being strong enough to stand watching other people doing things in the war are just part of a passing phase ; or maybe it 's these ‘ books of a higher nature ’ … but I never credited you with being able to talk such utter balls . |
| 22 | Colbert had an ego robust enough to stand a lot of punishment . |
| 23 | The problem is to develop a device which as well as demonstrating a high degree of efficiency in converting wave energy into electricity , is also robust enough to stand up to the buffeting and corrosion of the sea . |
| 24 | Cars had been seen dodging through the lay-by to avoid red lights , it was said , and the pedestrian refuge between the road and lay-by was not wide enough to stand with a pram . |
| 25 | When Charles Temple , impelled by his love of logical discourse , asked himself what might be the ultimate evolution of the system of Indirect Rule , he replied that , by allowing ‘ natural conditions to exert their influence in a manner modified to meet the requirements of the native group ’ , Indirect rule would ‘ in due course of time ’ , render that group ‘ robust enough to stand by itself ’ . |
| 26 | And for those determined enough to stand out from the crowd by virtue of understatement , that may well be enough . |
| 27 | Sometimes I 'd have to sit with her until she was sober enough to stand and I could shoulder her home , snapping a curt reply , ‘ It 's all right , I can take care of her , ’ to kind enquirers . |
| 28 | He prophesied that there was no man or woman big enough to stand forever in the way of the Labour Party achieving their aims . |
| 29 | Rather than being long-standing relationships which have been strong enough to stand ‘ the test of time ’ , as we often assume , they are little more than empty shells which are no longer of any significant mutual support or value . |
| 30 | ‘ Nowadays ’ , said Bismarck in 1884 , ‘ no Government is strong enough to stand the reproach of having sacrificed its own national interests as a favour to a friendly Power . ’ |