Example sentences of "[prep] standing [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They see the war as an unequal contest between a 30-nation coalition and a lone Arab country , the purpose of which was to destroy the only Arab state capable of standing up to Israel . |
| 2 | It offers adventure , contacts and understanding of other cultures and the opportunity of standing up to pressure . |
| 3 | I am allowed a say on this question of standing up at football matches because I first planted my feet on the terraces at Barnsley when I was five and spent the next 15 years or more rooted to the spot . |
| 4 | A member of the Drayton class who was attending ante-natal classes demonstrated to other participants the best way of standing up after floorwork , and greatly impressed the class tutor . |
| 5 | It 's not just the end result of standing up in court and representing a client . |
| 6 | Washington insiders believe that she told her husband how she felt and suggested he should use the ‘ excuse ’ of Graves Disease , a condition affecting the heart rhythm which they both suffer from , as a way of standing down from office . |
| 7 | Moreover , as these demands have grown , so have the commercial pressures on companies to present their results and state of affairs in the best light , and this in turn has sometimes led to difficulties for auditors in standing up to directors who fix their remuneration and who , in practice , have the power to dismiss them . |
| 8 | President Bill Clinton , giving his first formal press conference since he took office two months ago , said Mr Yeltsin had shown a great deal of courage in standing up for democracy , civil liberties and market reforms . |
| 9 | The Labour party has form in standing up for secrecy in local government , in opposing the publication of school results or of any other kind of league table . |
| 10 | I thought : You prefer generalizations like ‘ after the revolution the workers will wake up filled with unbelievable joy ’ to standing up to fascists like Shadwell . |
| 11 | How would you feel about standing up in front of a group of people and telling them something about I mean in her situation telling her class or even the whole what you were doing . |
| 12 | Until recently Saddam Hussein was supported only by a lunatic fringe in the Soviet Union ; the leader of Pamyat , an anti-Semitic group , praised him for standing up to Zionism . |
| 13 | Others applauded him for standing up to America . |
| 14 | For even as he was being celebrated for standing up to China , Mr Patten was trying to transmit the message that there is a difference between trade and economics , on the one hand , and politics on the other . |
| 15 | Egyptians like an underdog ; many of them privately admit to thinking that , whatever his faults , Saddam has guts for standing up to Uncle Sam . |
| 16 | Government were to be warmly congratulated for standing up for Britain at Brussels . |
| 17 | If they moved against him as if he were a common criminal , he would retaliate by standing up in court and defending himself . |