Example sentences of "[adj] stood [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French stood in sharp contrast to all this ; their main energies were directed at expansion in Europe , with the Netherlands marked down as a particularly attractive target , but they were so rich , so dynamic , and so confident in the second half of the seventeenth century that they were quite willing — as asserted in the motto of their great king , Louis XIV , nec pluribus impar — to fight several enemies at once . |
| 2 | Prussia in the 1820s and 1830s stood with one foot in the feudal , agricultural past and the other foot in the new age of industry . |
| 3 | All this stood in marked contrast to the , in many senses , basically conservative and pseudo-religious feelings so frequently underlying and characterizing belief in Hitler . |
| 4 | The other three stood to one side , in a line , at attention . |
| 5 | The nine years that had elapsed since she last stood on this spot could have been a dream . |