Example sentences of "[pron] stand [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have SO MANY GREAT PRIZES to give away , everyone stands a good chance of winning something ! |
| 2 | ‘ If you can make me understand that , I stand a better chance of helping to get you the money to find it , ’ Waldegrave said . |
| 3 | Not the young Francis either , in whom I stood a better hope of experiencing the odd happy memory , but Francis as I 'd last experienced him with the tang of his Lucky Strikes , last night 's whisky and dejection all togged up as joie de vivre . |
| 4 | I stood a few yards away from him , my sandalled feet feeling the mossy lawn underneath , — and then he opened his eyes . |
| 5 | If I stood a starving child before you , |
| 6 | In some such cases specific protection , in the form of import controls , subsidies or state purchasing , may be justified on socialist grounds , for instance if the industry is a struggling ‘ infant ’ with good future prospects ( ‘ good ’ , that is , in respect of the efficient satisfaction of social need ) , or even a struggling ‘ geriatric ’ which stands a good chance of reviving its fortunes through a thorough re-investment programme . |
| 7 | Its two-hundred-foot-high tower is surmounted by a dome on which stands a golden Virgin holding aloft the Christ-child . |
| 8 | Ahead now , and then right , is Corso Europa in which stands the interesting Casa Litta — not to be confused with the even more interesting Palazzo Litta . |
| 9 | Break it to go round a planting bed , make a circle on which to stand a large plant pot or statue , or to give a paved area around a rotary clothes dryer . |
| 10 | It 's best to leave the cutting of the opening to a professional builder unless you are skilled , because you will need to know the number and size of needles ( the temporary horizontal supporting timbers that past through the wall , carried on adjustable vertical props ) , and you will have to provide a firm base on which to stand the upright props , which have to be supported on the ground , and not by a wooden floor . |
| 11 | Similarly the many Mexicans looking simply to cast an anti-government vote supported the left , which stood a greater chance of winning and emerged in second place amid evidence of substantial fraud by the government . |
| 12 | She looked across to a bureau on which stood a framed certificate for TV Presenter of the Year Award . |
| 13 | Mildred decided to get to the chest of drawers , on which stood a small mirror , so that she could see just how small she was . |
| 14 | Monnet himself seemed to be rather more cautious about going too fast too quickly , and seemed to hanker still for sectoral integration in the first instance , especially in the developing field of nuclear energy , as a strategy which stood a better chance of succeeding in the short term . |
| 15 | Soon we reached the shrine , a car-park-like space beside the road in which stood a large glass tank containing a painted figure of Mary looking with pity on Jesus crucified . |
| 16 | This door led to a large entrance lobby , to the right of which stood a luxurious bathroom , while to the left was a range of built-in wardrobes . |
| 17 | On very early model helicopters this was probably the only method which stood a any chance of success , but only just ! |
| 18 | The architect did not try to reproduce a mediaeval church with aisles and chancel but chose an octagon shape with one side designated as an ‘ east end ’ with a window under which stood a Holy Table . |
| 19 | She stepped forward and discovered , sitting at a desk which stood the right way up , a small dark man . |
| 20 | Then , on 2 November , a sudden dash by the 1st and 2nd Canadian divisions finally secured the high ground on which stood the destroyed Passchendaele village . |
| 21 | She stands a little distance away . |
| 22 | We must ask you to stand the first £100 of any consequential loss . |
| 23 | We must ask you to stand the first £100 of any consequential loss . |
| 24 | Once a literary agent has accepted your work , you stand a better chance of getting it published , though this is still not guaranteed . |
| 25 | If you fight , you stand a better chance . |
| 26 | But you stand a better chance of your material being used if it is topical , lively and written in a similar style to that employed by the particular newspaper or radio station . |
| 27 | Please send your article early so you stand a better chance of it being published — earlier the better . |
| 28 | If you plan your reading well ahead of your tutorials or essay-writing deadline , you stand a better chance of getting hold of the books you want . |
| 29 | You stand a better chance if you put something with the Sunday and even then that might not be completely enough to reach down to the crevices , but I think some method , and that 's why I suggested surgeries actually , was that we have to talk regularly to people face to face and once you 're in a room with people then it goes , does n't it ? |
| 30 | If you can clearly state what your objective is what you 're trying to persuade the audience to then everything you say supports that and you stand a better chance of being persuasive . |