Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] stand the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This clover stands the winter well . |
| 2 | In the small mezzanine ‘ A ’ -Control Room stood the producer , his eye on the second-hand of the wall-clock and his right hand raised to signal the start to the conductor who watched him from the studio . |
| 3 | On one side stand the absolutists , such as Fay Weldon and Harold Pinter , who feel that burning and banning books is intolerable ; on the other stand the pragmatists who feel that freedom of expression is not an absolute good and that censorship ( self-imposed , imposed by neighbours or by Parliament ) is justified to protect the sensibilities of those whose views are fundamentalist , and thus illiberal . |
| 4 | To one side stood the phaeton . |
| 5 | At the centre of their vision of Russia 's revolutionary transformation stood the peasant commune which , they argued , had preserved the peasantry from the corruption of private property . |
| 6 | Outside the front door stood the patients , including two men and three young girls . |
| 7 | And in the same square stood the parish church of Santa Croce , built at about the same time as the castle . |
| 8 | But behind such flurries in the economists ' dovecote lies the question of whether the new economics stands the test of evidence . |