Example sentences of "stand in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stand in a French village when the Tour de France goes by and you are participating in an event which is unambiguously French . |
| 2 | ‘ I stand in a British book shop with my mouth agape . |
| 3 | Whether you stand in a pristine lowland rainforest , beside a road or in an urban park , any casual glance towards the earth will quickly pick out ants , from a few to many individuals — and often from several species . |
| 4 | You stand in a garden |
| 5 | Well , because this ‘ childish game ’ conceals the peculiarities of our development , the facts are far fetched , many things stand in a completely false perspective . |
| 6 | All the children stand in a circle facing inward , with their hands behind their backs . |
| 7 | The men then stand in a line with their shirts off . |
| 8 | Women and men stand in a different relationship to language and women writers should remember this fact both while they are writing and when they receive rejection slips from publishers . |
| 9 | They stand in a line along the south side of Glen Nevis , worthy counterparts to those of the Ben Nevis range on the north side , not quite as high but of better appearance and much more photogenic from the floor of the glen . |
| 10 | On the whole the ‘ kinship defenders ’ defend the biological parents and their value to the child , and the ‘ society-as-parent ’ school supports the psychological parents — those who have given most care and attention to the child and stand in a close , loving relationship to him [ or her ] . |
| 11 | It is intriguing to speculate , as you stand in a swamp listening to this astounding and deafening chorus , that , although much must have changed in the millions of years since the first amphibians appeared , it was , nonetheless , an amphibian voice that first sounded over the land which , until then , had heard nothing but the chirps and whirrs of insects . |
| 12 | The two senses carried by the lexical form dog in 81a and b , and the two senses of lion in 82a and b , and of heavy in 84a and b stand in a relation of this type : |
| 13 | The two senses of long in 83a and b , and of heavy in 84a and b stand in a slightly different relation , but one of the same type : |
| 14 | However , by no means all hyponyms stand in a relation of cognitive equivalence with an expression containing a superordinate . |
| 15 | Pseudo-relations occur when lexical items which do not , in fact , stand in a particular relation mimic , as it were , one or more of the contextual characteristics of that relation under special circumstances . |
| 16 | The children , who stand in a small cluster near the goat enclosure , now look at each other and laugh , too , but when the laibon swings his impressive , lidded gaze towards them , they freeze . |
| 17 | Like the being able to slip out of his own head and stand in a corner , hang on the ceiling , terrifyingly , silent-screamingly BE SOMEWHERE ELSE , looking back at the body left behind . |
| 18 | Stand in a line , one behind the other , with the Sixer at the back . |
| 19 | Brownies stand in a circle in groups of three — father , mother and child — waiting to go pearl-fishing . |
| 20 | Brownies stand in a circle facing inwards with their legs apart . |
| 21 | Rainbows stand in a circle . |
| 22 | The symbolic goods produced here will only have much of a chance of realizing their value if they stand in a relation of ‘ elective affinity ’ to the consumers ; that is , to their ideal and material interests . |
| 23 | They stand in a cluster next to a stream around an open space , for which the term ‘ village green ’ would be too grand . |
| 24 | The first one was half of us were blindfolded and we were set out in a line and the rest had to move about 5–10 metres away and stand in a line . |
| 25 | The remarks probably refer to illness , but they stand in a metaphoric sense for the condition that Renaissance women usually confronted . |
| 26 | ‘ If you stand in a real landscape and pick out with your eyes a path ahead , then walk the path and find it was a good route to have chosen , why , that is nothing mystical . |
| 27 | I stand in a light mist of rain . |
| 28 | I stand in a five-pointed star position in the middle of the room while the doghandler runs his hands along my limbs . |
| 29 | Yeah you go and stand in a corner in a minute . |
| 30 | Well , stand in a Fair Trading Officer ! |