Example sentences of "[noun sg] stand [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bob Murray finds out how well a big green luxury saloon stands up to the strain of chauffeuring a discerning family of four around France |
| 2 | Bauhaus ' ‘ Dark Entries ’ remains a ferocious blue ( black ) print ; Danse Society 's ‘ We 're So Happy ’ is surprisingly epic and coolly resonant ; and mid-'80s music hall like X-Mal Deutschland , Sex Gang Children , Specimen and Alien Sex Fiend stands up to the test of time . |
| 3 | Asian women come from many different language groups , practise at least three main religions and have come to Britain in varied patterns of migration but ask them about their family life and the similarity of their experience stands out like the skeleton in an X-ray . |
| 4 | And thirdly increasing emphasis , not on the socialist politics of the Communist Party in the nineteen twenties , but on the development of a nationalist ideology which could appeal to all classes in Chinese society who were interested in getting the Japanese out and who were angered by the Kuomintang government 's inability to stand up to the Japanese . |
| 5 | I very much hope that they are engaged in the work and committed to it , but I do n't want them to believe it 's real ; and the word involvement to me implies an inability to stand apart from the role-playing . |
| 6 | ( Actually ‘ Boggers ’ is really called Mister Jones , but his hair stands up like the bristles on a bog er … toilet brush , hence his nickname . ) |
| 7 | It must be recalled that money stands here as the symbol of abstraction in human relations . |
| 8 | While the local train gets the road and moves off , the Deltic moves on , again the familiar engines making the exhaust stand up into the dusk sky . |
| 9 | A horse standing perfectly in the show ring , with its ears nicely pricked , may indicate that it is cross by pressing its lips tightly together , as if it is refusing some nasty-tasting medicine . |
| 10 | This was actually the Franciscan Greyfriary and the Whitefriary stood just to the south-west between St. Paul 's Street and Priory Road — a much less romantic site . |
| 11 | One six-year-old Our Gang refugee stood solemnly by the car , too-long pants concertinaed around his feet , holding up the officer 's revolver in both hands , covering the fat driver . |
| 12 | The change involved the production of a protective ‘ skin ’ to ensure that water loss to the atmosphere was not excessive , and the stems had to acquire sufficient rigidity to stand up without the support of surrounding water , but also the cellular structure had to allow the passage of nutrients to the growing shoots ( ultimately , a vascular system ) . |
| 13 | He was the first commoner to stand up to the might of the king . |
| 14 | Amis 's third novel is called I Like It Here ( 1958 ) , and when its hero stands reverently by the grave of Henry Fielding in Lisbon he acknowledges a debt at once literary and moral . |
| 15 | She would have rung him , if it had n't been for the tall constable standing meaningfully by the telephone . |
| 16 | An armed guard stood there in the doorway , head bowed , a clean silk pau folded over one arm . |
| 17 | The sun stood uncertainly on the horizon , a disc of perfect orange , hovering above the smudge of suburban parks and tiled roofs , the same sun Spittals had been admiring a couple of hours before . |
| 18 | But one thing which makes this product stand out from the crowd is its ability to address the needs of work group computing . |
| 19 | ‘ I think that 's what makes Curve stand out from the rest of the pack , ’ asserts Alex , ‘ because all these other indie bands do n't seem to be interested in guitar music . |
| 20 | The Laurels was a very nice house on the edge of the town standing back from the road in a large garden . |
| 21 | He pushed two packets of Players and a box of matches through the bars while the German stood miserably in the background looking furtively up and down the wire . |
| 22 | and this was taken up in like folds but the plait stood away from the head , it sort of come out |
| 23 | They spoke after the borough council 's planning committee decided last night to stand up to the Home Office by objecting to the £14 million expansion , intended to ease the prison 's long-standing and often chronic overcrowding problem . |
| 24 | The baptistery stands separately at the south-west corner of the cathedral and was begun in 1196 . |
| 25 | They entered the trench , leaving Astorre and Thomas and Pesaro standing silently at the entrance . |
| 26 | I glance up and see Lucker standing there on the bridge . |
| 27 | It is as if the Poet were tackling time face to face , confronting , wrestling with time , with his Friend standing apart as the prize in the competition . |
| 28 | The present day building has a small western tower and 12th century nave standing away from the road on the edge of a wood . |
| 29 | Going north along Corso Venezia you reach Palazzo Fontana-Silvestri standing almost opposite the entrance to the Semanario Arcivescovile . |
| 30 | Sweat stood out on the flagellant 's brow now . |