Example sentences of "[noun sg] stand [adv prt] [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 | ( Actually ‘ Boggers ’ is really called Mister Jones , but his hair stands up like the bristles on a bog er … toilet brush , hence his nickname . ) |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | He was the first commoner to stand up to the might of the king . |
| 9 | But one thing which makes this product stand out from the crowd is its ability to address the needs of work group computing . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | The Laurels was a very nice house on the edge of the town standing back from the road in a large garden . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Sweat stood out on the flagellant 's brow now . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | To ensure that you and your baby stand out from the crowd , send now for your free Mamas & Papas brochure by completing the coupon . |
| 16 | Erm compared to other places you 've lived in erm how does this flat stand up to the comparison ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Coffin stood up in the launch facing them . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | People who 've seen it say it makes the hair stand up on the back of their necks . ’ |
| 22 | It remains to be seen how Taggart 's vision stands up to the floodlights — and the driving rain . |
| 23 | One man stands out as the architect of the Midland 's golden era : Sir Edward Holden . |
| 24 | ‘ It took a great deal of courage for one man to stand up to the tobacco industry . |
| 25 | The real problem is to make your particular message stand out from the crowd . |
| 26 | The little man stood up on the foot rests , throttling back . |
| 27 | One night a man stood up in the stalls , swaying slightly , and said with a slight Scandinavian accent : ‘ Hellooo . |
| 28 | I spent the morning sitting on the floor and the afternoon standing up at the shelf . |
| 29 | But one line stands out from the rest — a tetrad only 512 cm long ( about 312 km on the ground ) . |
| 30 | This crying , this wailing , this mass of thick air gathered from thousand upon thousand square miles of nothingness , scooped up , pushed and banked against every object which has the temerity to stand up from the surface of the earth ; this was weird , oppressive , invasive . |