Example sentences of "have [adv] stand " in BNC.
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| 1 | After tea we would sometimes walk round their garden , and she gave me tips on gardening which have since stood me in good stead ; and cuttings , which still bring her to my mind . |
| 2 | Jackson have long stood for high quality American instruments , with their Japanese- and Korean-made Charvel counterparts sitting at the other end of the corporate see-saw . |
| 3 | In patients with the Zollinger-Ellison sydrome , who have long standing hypergastrinaemia originating from the rumour , proliferation of fundic argyrophil cells , mainly fo the ECL type , has also been observed . |
| 4 | To move would be impossible ( and yet I have only to stand up , pull off the bracelets , announce an end to all this … ) . |
| 5 | However , one must remember that the number of plants reputed to relieve one condition or another is enormous , and that most of them have not stood up to critical investigation . |
| 6 | MOST BOOKS on branch lines record enterprises that have not stood the test of time and are no longer with us . |
| 7 | If it appears that the original decisions were taken on the basis of assumptions which have not stood the test of time it is as well to re-run the exercise . |
| 8 | If some of Hoppé 's portraits and genre pictures have not stood the test of time , his influence on his contemporaries , his restless experimentation , his role in helping to found the London Salon of Photography , and his nineteen books made him an important figure in the history of twentieth-century photography . |
| 9 | In consumer matters these rights have not stood the test of time , and in modern economic conditions , Britain and other Western nations have had to introduce numerous statutory regulations to clarify and indeed strengthen the rights of individual consumers . |
| 10 | The performances have not stood the test of time ; a successor would be very welcome . |
| 11 | If you have ever stood on a sheep farmer 's hillside , as I have done many times in the Western Highlands of Scotland , and listened to the sheep calling to ( communicating with ) each other , you will immediately notice how their intonations are all different , as indeed are their faces . |
| 12 | The recordings themselves , even considering their vintage , have hardly stood up well to the passage of time and the transfers to CD have cruelly highlighted some appallingly blatant edits in the originals . |
| 13 | ‘ We have always stood for service . |
| 14 | Nothing would have induced me to part now except an overwhelming sense that the course of action which has been pursued has put the country- and not merely the country , but throughout the world , the principles for which you and I have always stood throughout our political lives-in the greatest peril that has ever overtaken them . |
| 15 | Many Christians can recognise secularism and have boldly stood up against it . |
| 16 | Have n't stood the test of time . |
| 17 | You have n't stood at the side of the pavement . |
| 18 | Finally , there are two general principles of delegation that have certainly stood the test of time . |
| 19 | Christie 's recession-hit shares have recently stood at 105 p , far from their 1990 peak of 413p . |
| 20 | If you have never stood up in front of other people and given a speech , you could take a course in public speaking , or buy a book on the subject and go through the techniques they practise . |