Example sentences of "[adj] stand [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FORMER Liberal leader Sir David Steel yesterday urged Labour to stand down for the Liberal-Democrats in seats they can not win at the next Election . |
| 2 | For many Arabs the invasion of Kuwait confirmed Saddam as the foremost pan-Arab nationalist leader and the first Arab ruler since Egypt 's Abdel Gamal Nasser who was fully prepared to stand up to the USA . |
| 3 | OF THE OTHER NEW ‘ JAPANESE ’ SAVOY titles , a few stand out from the crowd . |
| 4 | In practice it is not always easy to stand back from the mass of information and choose a main message and a few submessages . |
| 5 | ‘ If you wanted to find out how an astronaut 's body was likely to stand up to the strain of living on a very , very heavy planet , is there some way of testing it before actually visiting the planet ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Do you think you could ask them all to stand over by the window , please ? |
| 7 | It was better to stand out at the beginning than to go in with the expectation that he would soon have to provoke a further crisis by resignation . |
| 8 | In the longer term the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees tried to help individual farmers to eke out an adequate living , encourage the organization of small farmers at the village level , and foster the growth of a farming structure better able to stand up to the rigours of occupation than the present one in which middlemen and large landowners dominated agriculture . |
| 9 | A Japanese-led bloc of Asian nations would be militarily and economically secure , and able to stand up to the threat posed by the nations of Europe and by the United States . |
| 10 | Since this high work of fracture — which makes trees able to stand up to the buffetings of life and which makes wood such a useful material — can not be accounted for by any of the recognized work of fracture mechanisms which operate in man-made composites , George set out to find out what was really happening . |
| 11 | Kinnock improved his image most on being energetic and decisive but actually lost ground on being able to stand up to the USSR , reflecting perhaps the consequences of his ‘ dad 's army ’ interview with David Frost . |
| 12 | On being able to stand up to the USSR , Thatcher scored 80 per cent in the precampaign week , easing to 79 per cent in the last fortnight of the campaign . |
| 13 | Here he was able to stand back from the onrush of western man and ask himself the real questions of life and meaning ; get his young life , full and successful as it had been , into perspective . |
| 14 | By reacting in this way , Jane is able to stand back from the situation and it can not hurt her as it used to do . |
| 15 | That demanded constant attention , and yet the Prime Minister must also be able to stand back from the pressure of events and think about the future . |
| 16 | In the sample of seven companies , one stood out from the others as having a very different and more sophisticated method of scanning the environment . |
| 17 | HP 's software effort for the new servers included endorsement from a veritable who's-who of mainframe software houses , all eager to stand up on the platform and say that their customers were queueing up to leave the IBM mainframe world behind . |