Example sentences of "[noun sg] stand [adv prt] [prep] [art] [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 | It will be intriguing to see how Brecht 's play stands up at a time when Communism is loosening its ideological hold . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Goodhart-Rendel writing from the viewpoint of having altered his first plate-glass windowed house , Idsworth ( 1848–52 ) , Hampshire , found his elevations conventional and even perfunctory and in our own time even Howard Colvin found that ‘ not a single building stands out as a masterpiece ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ( Actually ‘ Boggers ’ is really called Mister Jones , but his hair stands up like the bristles on a bog er … toilet brush , hence his nickname . ) |
| 8 | Mr Graham Crowley says the North-East stands out as an area that is creating opportunities for artists and many craft people encouraged to move to the region in readiness for Arts ‘ 96 . |
| 9 | Looping the loop and executing mid-flight victory rolls might be sensational on the coin-op , but without that gyroscopic cabinet thingie the effects are nowhere as impressive , and the thinness of the gameplay stands out like a Spectrum owner at a computer fair . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | He was the first commoner to stand up to the might of the king . |
| 13 | In the social history of twentieth-century Britain the Second World War stands out as a watershed ; the sheer scale and magnitude of the events that took place during those crucial six years seems to lend indisputable credibility to the view that modern wars are a major force behind progressive social change . |
| 14 | But one thing which makes this product stand out from the crowd is its ability to address the needs of work group computing . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | The Laurels was a very nice house on the edge of the town standing back from the road in a large garden . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Lucker stands by with a lit cigarette , just in case it does n't work . |
| 19 | He 's far more likely to catch a chill standing about at a show or in the hunting field than after a bath , as long as you take the right precautions . |
| 20 | THE airpass holder who whinged to the Dallas check-in clerk that she had spent all day standing by for a flight out of one of America 's less attractive airports was gently chastised . |
| 21 | Sweat stood out on the flagellant 's brow now . |
| 22 | His art emerges as the product of the extreme poverty of his early years when sex was cheaper than food and where the circus stood in for the corrida . |
| 23 | To ensure that you and your baby stand out from the crowd , send now for your free Mamas & Papas brochure by completing the coupon . |
| 24 | Erm compared to other places you 've lived in erm how does this flat stand up to the comparison ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This is particularly the case when as here , they are preserved in dark shales , the white calcite of the animal 's skeleton standing out against the background . |
| 27 | Coffin stood up in the launch facing them . |
| 28 | But I wished fervently that I had been able to do more , and as I passed my hand along the richly coloured coat over the ribs the vast bandaged finger stood out like a symbol of my helplessness . |
| 29 | The stories of what it was like there in the hours that followed , and of the lingering deaths of 31 of the most exposed people , make the hair stand up on the back of your neck . |
| 30 | People who 've seen it say it makes the hair stand up on the back of their necks . ’ |