Example sentences of "stand by " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stands by what he said , and , sadly , many of his criticisms are still valid : the team have still not bought a video camera despite a large injection of cash from the Sports Council and no one could say that the preparation training for the world championships — one weekend in the Kendal Judo Club — has been anything but derisory . |
| 2 | ON A GRASS verge along Szilagyi Erzsebet avenue in Budapest stands a bronze figure flanked by blocks of granite , bearing the inscription : ‘ While good fortune stands by your side , friends are plentiful . |
| 3 | The Conservative Conference : Chancellor stands by interest rate strategy |
| 4 | This use of attire , stands by the very ordinance of God ; who , as he hath not sorted all men to all places , so he will have men to fitte themselves and their attire , to the qualitie of their proper places , to put a difference betweene themselves and others … |
| 5 | He stands by the decision of his predecessor , Mr Douglas Hurd , that there is no need for further investigation . |
| 6 | The Shia movement stands by the agreement made last December in Damascus , when all Iraqi opposition groups made Mr Hussein 's overthrow their aim . |
| 7 | There 's a remarkably fat one that stands by the nearby shellfish stall . |
| 8 | A memorial to Macleod stands by the side of the river , close to the site of his old home . |
| 9 | A male who stands by and allows another companion member of the coalition to mate with a receptive female is not really being altruistic , because that companion is probably a relative . |
| 10 | Despite this official denial , New Scientist stands by its report that the Abbey Hill electronic support measures ( ESM ) equipment aboard the destroyer identified the missile that sank it as friendly ( This Week , 10 February , p 353 ) . |
| 11 | Ontario 's Attorney-General , Roy McMurtry , says he stands by the CDC report and Digoxin expert , Alois Hastreiter of the University of Illinois says post-mortem levels found in some of the patients were ‘ far too high to be explained by any naturally occurring substance ’ . |
| 12 | Morgan , however , stands by his article . |
| 13 | He stands by what he says . |
| 14 | He recalls that the Chancellor came in to the store at around 5pm , and stands by this approximate time even though he is well aware that Mr Lamont was then in a Treasury Select Committee at the House of Commons . |
| 15 | A comfortable chair for nanny stands by the brass-bound fender that surrounds the hob grate , with the nursery kettle on it for making the baby 's feeds . |
| 16 | Another writer with a far briefer experience of life under sail , John Masefield , stands by contrast right in the centre of the convention of action and narrative in which the glory of adventure-story lies ; for at least one period of his life Masefield would have agreed , as Conrad would not , that he was a ‘ writer of sea-stories ’ . |
| 17 | Well , the gravestone certainly stands by the porch and it does have a hole drilled through it , said to have been where the iron stake was hammered through the stone into the coffin , but I 'm afraid that I agree with the general consensus voiced around the bar of the Sun Inn and the George and Dragon that George Hodgson was guilty of nothing but old age , that the only thing he sucked were his gums , and that the hole in the stone was made for a railing or gatepost . |
| 18 | ‘ We really must campaign vigorously to ensure that the government stands by its earlier intentions and undertakings , ’ adds PA chief executive Clive Bradley . |
| 19 | I reach the lower patio where the garden furniture stands by the side of the tarpaulin-covered pool and crouch down by the ghostly perforated shape of the cast-iron bench . |
| 20 | When everyone has found their places he stands by the microphone at the top table , hammers on the table with a gavel , and announces loudly , ‘ Ladies and Gentlemen , Pray SILENCE for the Reverend John Smith , who will now say grace . ’ |
| 21 | She stands by the window , checking her face in the silver compact . |
| 22 | The Committee stands by the decision in Morgan and rejects the idea that belief in consent should be required to be reasonable . |
| 23 | Bill stands by the bedroom window . |
| 24 | Tony the guard stands by the door . |
| 25 | ‘ Monsieur , everyone stands by the edge of the water and stares at the fish , that 's why we have such ponds . |
| 26 | Anne Buckland of Environmental Products explains the technology to a customer while F John Smith stands by the ART 700 exhibit . |
| 27 | Our mark stands by a white BMW . |
| 28 | Anyway , the point is this that I am going to say as far as I 'm concerned I 'm gon na put all my maximum ability in making sure that this government stands by its obligation which it gave me when I wrote to the Prime Minister because I was very very concerned that I did not want to see the old people and pensioners who was having difficulty in making ends meet , suffer further and therefore I am with you when it comes to concerning yourself in relation to the O A P's or the pensioners or any one who is suffering because of the s seventeen and o half percent , the maximum is put on . |
| 29 | But the principal of Somerville stands by the college decision . |
| 30 | It 's an augument he still stands by today . |