Example sentences of "stand [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHEN a bowl of gruel is all that stands between a toddler and death , it was wonderful to see little Issi gain his salvation in Somalia . |
| 2 | He also described the Anglican clergyman as ‘ the self-conceited , pedantic , presumptuous priest … [ who ] stands between the flower and the sun … the soul and God . ’ |
| 3 | If the patient is being moved between two chairs , the second carer stands between the chairs , again behind the patient . |
| 4 | That is to say , he stands between the client and the outcome of his instruction and is therefore identified as the one most responsible for a project 's success or failure . |
| 5 | Once a character has been wounded , he will not be attacked again unless he stands between the Carrion and one or more unwounded characters . |
| 6 | Yep , PHIL ‘ BUTTER FINGERS ’ KING puts on his green jersey and stands between the anorak goalposts . |
| 7 | Emphasizing the intellectual approach , Hourcade was the first of the many writers to relate Cubist painting to Kantian aesthetics , and in one of his articles includes a quotation from Schopenhauer : ‘ Kant 's greatest service was to distinguish between the appearance of a thing and the thing in itself , and he showed that our intelligence stands between the thing and us . ’ |
| 8 | for every legislative enactment constitutes a diktat by the state to the citizen which he is not only expected but obliged to observe in the regulation of his daily life and it is the judge and the judge alone who stands between the citizen and the state 's own interpretation of its own rules . |
| 9 | Just as Adam stands between the forces of good and evil , so do we stand between the heroic action and qualities of Christ and the fallen Angel of Light , and just as man did in the beginning , we too , as humans , fall prey to the tempter at each individual reading of the epic . |
| 10 | Sometimes his willingness to raise the alarm is literally the only thing that stands between an old person and the possibility of a lonely and lingering death following a fall or sudden illness . |
| 11 | It stands as a sympathetic appraisal by a critic who is trusting largely to his own intuitive sense of quality : |
| 12 | By contrast , the films made to exploit the vitality , comic talent and phenomenal singing voice of Grace Fields are at their best when set not against a showbusiness background , but in the midst of depressed working-class communities where Fields stands as a beacon of cheerfulness and hope . |
| 13 | NFC stands as a monument to the irrelevance of both nationalisation and denationalisation ; and as a monument to the vision of Sir Peter Thompson and his colleagues whose commitment to employee involvement has made the transport group , which was floated in February , the one privatisation that got away . |
| 14 | Whether he really existed or not , he stands as a type of the most bloodthirsty and battle-frenzied of Celtic warriors . |
| 15 | Even in that period , reactions were not always as bad as these ; in 1618 the water-poet John Taylor had a wonderful Scottish holiday ( having gone there , as a result of a bet with Ben Jonson , without money , so that his account stands as a testimony to the generosity of the Scots ) . |
| 16 | The way in which polling day is conducted , little altered since secret ballots were introduced , stands as a reliable landmark in a volatile political scene . |
| 17 | Just as the church at Aughton stands as a touchstone of the spirit of the Derwent Ings , so the little church of St Thomas a Becket at Fairfield represents all the romance and loneliness of Romney Marsh . |
| 18 | In the years when Hartley was building Albert Dock and other extensions of the system , Liverpool was rapidly becoming established as the second most important port in Britain , and Albert Dock , which has outlived its usefulness , stands as a monument both to Hartley and to Liverpool 's Victorian prosperity . |
| 19 | One of the first examples of a curvilinear glasshouse , it stands as a reminder of bygone eras in Belfast 's history . |
| 20 | For community self-help programmes , Malawi in southern Africa stands as a shining example , having completed well over 30 piped water schemes with the willing toil of rural communities . |
| 21 | It was a hard , bloody fight lasting 3 hours and 16 minutes ( this time still stands as a world record for a championship fight ) before Burke knocked out Byrne with a tremendous punch , thus becoming recognised champion . |
| 22 | The canons ' tower is still there ; indeed the citizens — by a strange romantic gesture — built it yet higher in the nineteenth century ; and it stands as a monument to the forces and struggles which made Milan at once a centre of intense parochial jealousies , and of international fame and meaning , in the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 23 | This mysterious alignment of metal-clad monoliths stands as a reminder of an earlier civilisation . |
| 24 | Ralph Waldo Emerson 's remark stands as a typical example : ‘ As men 's prayers are a disease of the will , so are their creeds a disease of the intellect . ’ |
| 25 | One of the mill towers still stands as a private house and the old ropery is the base for an antiques shop . |
| 26 | For now , their impudent , untutored music stands as a shining example of talent as yet untainted by the demands of The Man . |
| 27 | In the old South , for example , Duke University stands as a bastion of what Hollander would call ‘ anti-American ’ thought . |
| 28 | Even with its present difficulties , the European Community stands as a beacon of economic success and political stability in Europe . |
| 29 | In the second instance of the link between the mother and the return to darkness , it can be seen how the mother in our everyday world stands as a figure in which the individual may lose him or herself . |
| 30 | The point will be made to the world that Mexico stands as a nation for the principle that a healthy environment is essential for the common future of humanity , with particular stress on the quality of life our children will inherit . |