Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] stood " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stuart Weir , who has courageously stood by Rushdie , was there , and so were such men and women of impeccable liberal credentials as James Cornford , Sara Maitland and Ben Whitaker . |
| 2 | A general system of gardening founded on experience is a work of which the public has long stood in need . |
| 3 | But agriculture has not stood still . |
| 4 | But this simplistic account of that crucial phase of evolution has not stood the test of modern investigation . |
| 5 | Unfortunately the detailed work on which that revision is itself based has only been published in Soviet journals in Russian , so has not stood the test of scrutiny by Western astronomers . |
| 6 | Aqib predictably bounced him , and the first over he faced encapsulated all that Gower has ever stood for : an edge ( somehow made to seem unregretted ) and an exquisite cover-drive ; beaten again , and a controlled turn to leg for two . |
| 7 | I do not for one minute believe that we shall hand over everything that this country has ever stood for in terms of its independence . |
| 8 | ALLERTHORPE HALL has always stood apart and important on the flat plain beside the Roman road that runs straight as a die from Borough Bridge to Catterick , and on the bendiest of bends in the River Swale . |
| 9 | Cash 's liberalism only extends so far — he has always stood for old-fashioned values like God , country and being handy in a knife fight . |
| 10 | The Conservative Party has always stood for the protection of the citizen and the defence of the rule of law . |
| 11 | It stands as it has always stood , |
| 12 | The company has always stood for excellence in analogue sound reproduction , its fame having been made by its first and longest running model , the LP12 turntable . |
| 13 | Getting this ingredient off the drawing boards and into bricks and mortar — not to mention details such as Donald Duck doorknobs — was indeed the stuff of dreams for Stern , who has always stood up for emotional content : ‘ In my view , whether you are engaged in a theme park , a hospital , or a court house , the building should elicit some excitement . ’ |
| 14 | Clothkits has always stood for quality clothes . |
| 15 | In a world of naysayers and traditionalists , the American character has always stood out — cheerfully optimistic , willing to run risks , ready to try anything . |
| 16 | She , why she , throughout my life , has always stood by me to help me make big decisions … ’ |
| 17 | The anatomy of Aristodikos and the Kritian boy alike is simplified from nature , not quite in the same way , but in both natural forms are perfectly understood ; only Aristodikos stands ( like Euthydikos 's kore ) in the formal way a statue has always stood , the other relaxed as a boy might actually stand . |
| 18 | Far be it for me to say that this is the sort of budget that conservatives ought to applaud because it is after all , a budget that is guided by a feeling that councils should provide services and they should orientate their services to the least communities , to be guided by equal opportunities and by egalitarians and that 's what this group has always stood for , this is the budget that we present tonight and I would hope that it would get a far better and far larger measure of support than perhaps of course been the case in the past . |
| 19 | It has also stood Marx on his head , by transforming itself from a classless society into a caste society ( if at the same time gratifying Lenin 's hope that the intermediate stage of class society might be bypassed ) . |
| 20 | Dynamic , decisive , celebrating the market economy ( ‘ If the market demands change , all the obstacles people want to put up mean nothing , because whoever gets there first gets the business : it 's a very fast way of making things happen ’ ) , Hailes and Elkington are the antithesis of much that green has traditionally stood for . |
| 21 | Having taken advantage of 100pc relief he claims they not only bought tackle which ‘ has mainly stood idle ever since ’ but did so with borrowed money on which they are still paying interest 10 years on . |
| 22 | Friends of Dr Owen say that his farewell advice to the nation — he has now stood down as an MP — is intended to avoid damaging the chances for his two remaining SDP colleagues , Rosie Barnes and John Cartwright , who are fighting to hold on to their south-east London seats . |
| 23 | My friend has now stood up and is pointing his finger at me . |
| 24 | On the net basis shown in the third column of this table , the UK has frequently stood second only to the USA , lying ahead of France and Germany . |
| 25 | Mr Peter Bergg , aged 47 , is also running in his first election although he has previously stood in Sedgefield district council elections . |
| 26 | Which of the following has NEVER stood for Parliament : Eric Morley , Jonathan King , Pamela Stephenson , Ben Elton ? |
| 27 | She , who 'd always stood on her own feet , fought her own battles . |
| 28 | But while Flashman may have now stood down , he remains the major shareholder at the club and the legacy of his reign remains untouched . |
| 29 | When Humphreys was making his study of homosexual activity in public lavatories in the USA , there was no way in which he could have simply stood around watching what was going on . |
| 30 | Certainly he never made any secret of his Conservative past , having twice stood unsuccessfully for parliament among the miners of County Durham , where his air of a slightly lost rural dean can hardly have been an asset . |