Example sentences of "stand against the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It added : ‘ They also saw students from a college being ordered out in front of the building , made to stand against the wall , and shot dead . |
| 2 | Norman Porter , the general secretary of the National Union of Protestants and at that time still a close colleague of Ian Paisley , had been asked by a number of conservative clergymen to stand against the Minister for Education in order to protest against amendments to the Education Act which increased and regularized state funding of Catholic schools . |
| 3 | To stand against the old order , the new national States would have to be strong — ‘ The very first conditions of national existence ( are ) large numbers and compactness of territory , ’ along with resources , ability and a favourable social organization . |
| 4 | There is a great difference between , on the one hand , voting Labour in a constituency which spread beyond the boundaries of the colliery village , and , on the other hand , being seen to organize a local Labour party or even to stand against the colliery manager and the old elite . |
| 5 | Some experienced speakers ask a friend to stand against the back wall and signal with hands facing forward by their ears if you need to speak louder , and with hands horizontal if you should speak more softly . |
| 6 | The two men , who were completely sober despite their time in the bar , moved away to stand against the cracked plaster walls of the buildings to either side of the main road , glancing quickly around the corners to check for traffic . |
| 7 | By forging letters from Walter she , paradoxically , felt she could convey a real image of him to stand against the false one . |
| 8 | In a show of confidence , the government allowed independent candidates to stand against the ruling Baath party . |
| 9 | A plump settee stands against the mantel , turquoise . |
| 10 | If there is more to be achieved in this forum , then I think my clients would like to fight for it because we we do believe that we would we do believe that logic and technical sense stands against the proposal that 's in the structure plan at the moment . |
| 11 | - Buses in the morning and afternoon are suddenly full of children , traffic jams are caused by cars containing family groups and signs appear in tobacconists ' shops : ‘ Sorry , No More Than One Schoolchild In Here At A Time , Put Your Arms Up and Stand Against The Wall To Be Searched When Requested . |
| 12 | Stand against the wall or fence . |
| 13 | I stand against the railings and remain in one place to avoid the crap , and look upwards . |
| 14 | Meanwhile the local MP has backed the workers stand against the factory closure : |
| 15 | They believe they have such an opportunity at the moment and no one here dares say where the pound may stand against the Deutschmark when the Chancellor rises to speak tomorrow . |
| 16 | But if , as expected , he fails to gain reselection by his local party next month and carries out his threat to resign and stand against the official Labour candidate in a byelection , he will have to work hard to swing the hearts and minds of many Labour voters . |
| 17 | Establish as heavy a bombardment as the cannon will stand against the walls and the guns by the walls . |
| 18 | When Chaos came he fought as best he could but he saw that the pitiful weapons of the Elves and the peaceful sorceries of the Everqueen could not stand against the might of the dark . |
| 19 | The shattered Empire , long a cauldron of factional strife , could not stand against the tide of Chaos . |
| 20 | We were told to halt and stand against the walls . |
| 21 | Well that was one would stand against the wall and about four would get down like that and you had a team say of five . |
| 22 | Mrs Barzach will have a much more difficult time retaining her seat in the 15th arrondissement of Paris , which she has represented for only the past three years and where she is standing against the well-established local RPR mayor ( and deputy mayor of the capital ) . |
| 23 | There was a large brown wardrobe standing against the wall with a block of wood supporting one of its damaged feet . |
| 24 | A pair of wellington boots stood below a big black overcoat in such a way as to give the impression that a very tall man was standing against the wall , watchful and silent . |
| 25 | After all , one of them was Mrs Eileen Paisley , who was standing against the outgoing Lord Mayor to protest his papist flag-lowering . |
| 26 | The characteristic historical product of a lineage standing against the world is a transmitted ideology . |
| 27 | When the main doors were thrown open , there was a general rush of men and women in all directions , carrying umbrellas and jumping over the pews to get to the very nearest available seats , and almost immediately every seat in the church was occupied and great crowds were standing against the wall in the back galleries . |
| 28 | In the north can be found lush greenery standing out in the bottom of the valleys that carve down through the mountains , and fields of banana plantations standing against the backdrop of Mount Teide , the island 's dormant volcano . |
| 29 | Worse — much worse — three of the cows were standing against the gate , their horned heads thrust over it . |
| 30 | He laughed in the face of the Colonel , and at the watcher standing against the door . |