Example sentences of "[adv] stand [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a general principle , personal representatives and trustees in bankruptcy merely stand in the shoes of the deceased or insolvent partner and have no greater rights against the continuing partners than are conferred by the partnership agreement ( or by statute in default of a sufficiently comprehensive agreement ) . |
| 2 | Whatever your scenario in December , what is being brought home to you is that you can no longer stand on the sidelines of your own life . |
| 3 | The tower still stands above the walls of the old Hindu fortress , a tapering cylinder rising up 240 feet in four ever-diminishing storeys like a fully extended telescope placed lens-down on a plateau in the Aravalli hills . |
| 4 | In doing this the anthropologist ‘ at home ’ quickly comes to understand why he must always stand on the margins of structure . |
| 5 | And these people are in fairly er desperate conditions but at least getting some help , but I think the main point is there is a civil war on , and the West is still standing on the sidelines watching it happen . |
| 6 | Athletic and committed , Joanne , who once stood on the fringes of junior county badminton , now has a goal to realise . |
| 7 | ‘ Statues of the gods once stood in the niches that surround us , but they were borrowed over the centuries and not returned . |
| 8 | Our description of rod manufacture also stands for the tubes , except that there is a central bullet in the die to form the ultimate wall thickness . |
| 9 | He also liked to make people do press-ups , but with their rifles stretched across the tops of their hands ; he would then stand on the rifles so that his entire weight was pressing down on to their fists . |
| 10 | Yes you 're quite right there because part of the street , the pavement and hard standing in the gardens for the cars which was a very good idea , now there 's the city have done two thirds of that and then when they came to the end of the er cul-de- sac , |
| 11 | Also historians themselves , historians themselves ca n't actually completely stand outside the events they are actually studying . |
| 12 | I mostly stood on the sidelines , watching the heavy-weights raging at each other . |