Example sentences of "[modal v] stand up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | That Navarro Rubio should stand up to Franco in this way was indicative of how power relations within the regime had changed since the Civil War . |
2 | The papers you are working on are fairly heavy and , unless you are flooding the paper with watercolour , should stand up to washes without the need for stretching . |
3 | And it meant she could stand up for Darren , who showed no sign of needing anything but his hard little fists and a certain way with words . |
4 | ‘ I can imagine you could stand up in court and say a thing like that without blinking an eye , ’ he said as if the thought astonished him . |
5 | He , Fisher , should be allowed to ask Ramsey privately whether his wife 's health would stand up to life in London . |
6 | ‘ Not one that would stand up in court . ’ |
7 | The District Attorney ( this is an American story ) believes the prisoners to be guilty of a serious crime , but has no proof that would stand up in court . |
8 | But his distaste went deeper than irritation at an unwelcome complication to his inquiry , at the bizarre intrusion of irrationality into a job so firmly rooted in the search for evidence which would stand up in court , documented , demonstrable , real . |
9 | At best it is an armchair consideration of whether the case would stand up in court . |
10 | ‘ Well that 's the case anyway : whether it would stand up in court you 're the lawyer you 'd know better than I but we 're not talking about courts and proof just leaks and public opinion . |
11 | ‘ Nothing that would stand up in court . ’ |
12 | Can detective constable come to court , show the jury , hand out to the jury the statement which would stand up in court ? |
13 | Ms Hutchison did not boost her case , however , by asserting in a recent televised debate that she is ‘ a fighter ’ who will stand up for Texas in the Senate . |
14 | A big wine which will stand up to dishes like casseroles with a strong flavour . |
15 | Often , the manufacturers do not even know to what extent their equipment will stand up to RFI . |
16 | It is all too easy to get people who will tell you the nice things , and after all there is not a lot that you can do about that , but those who will stand up without fear or favour and tell you , hopefully tactfully , that things are not really the way that everybody else thinks they are pearls beyond price . |
17 | ‘ If I can stand up to McEnroe I can stand up to anyone . ’ |
18 | But now many of them can stand up in front of the gate and talk back to the managing director . |