Example sentences of "[noun pl] to stand [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Norman Porter , the general secretary of the National Union of Protestants and at that time still a close colleague of Ian Paisley , had been asked by a number of conservative clergymen to stand against the Minister for Education in order to protest against amendments to the Education Act which increased and regularized state funding of Catholic schools . |
| 2 | The girl mounted the steps to stand beside the master of ceremonies and they carried on a conversation which , though audible , was unintelligible . |
| 3 | Franco and his henchmen had undoubtedly allowed the monarchists to stand in the hope that they would be discredited by defeat . |
| 4 | I ate the biscuits in one go and walked on to the boat , climbing up the decks to stand at the back . |
| 5 | It is a marriage of convenience between workers in many fields — archaeologists , geographers , geologists , botanists and zoologists — who do not want the barriers of 19th century subject divisions to stand in the way of understanding the way in which the human environment has evolved , the human role in shaping that environment and the ways in which humans gained a living from it . |
| 6 | The women also called on church leaders to stand by the tenets of truth and justice , and be willing to accept criticism of their own policies . |
| 7 | Maximilian , rising from his coffin after 6 rounds , orders the adventurers to stand around the perimeter of the magic circle while he and Juliane stand within it , reciting incantations from the scroll . |
| 8 | He point to the right-hand side of the room , and tells the men in the class to move that way ; then he points to the left with his other hand and tells the women to stand by the wall . |
| 9 | Mandeville ordered the soldiers to stand round the walls , taking their torches which spluttered bravely against the darkness . |
| 10 | The strident anti-union bloc of small businessmen , outraged sections of the middle classes , and probably also elements of the non-union working class , was not a sufficient counterweight to organised labour , given the tendency for the management of large enterprises to stand above the fray . |