Example sentences of "[vb mod] stand [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Historians have been attracted by the wealth of available material : Darwin 's private notebooks have survived , along with much of his correspondence , and this material is now being published so that scholars everywhere can have access to what must stand as a unique record of creative thought . |
| 2 | In Europe , said Mr Smith , Labour must stand for a positive partnership and active participation in the Community as the best means to secure the most benefit for Britain . |
| 3 | Treitel adds ’ But if a son 's promise not to bore his father is not good consideration ( White v. Bluett above , p. 000 ) , it is hard to see why a mother 's promise to make her child happy should stand on a different footing … |
| 4 | Shakespeare , Spenser , Milton : the list could be spun out , to include for instance Yeats , whose poem ‘ The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland ’ could stand as a Tolkienian epigraph . |
| 5 | Some people have felt that this borrowing from Dorothy and others shows a certain egotism on Wordsworth 's part , but it was his method as an artist to absorb things into himself , and think of them for a long period before writing them down ; nor is it necessary to maintain , in any case , that the ‘ I ’ of a Wordsworth poem is necessarily the poet himself — it may stand as a universal shorthand symbol with which the reader can equally identify . |
| 6 | Although the artefact may stand for a particular form of production , it can not be assumed that it will do so , or that the divisions which appear as significant from one perspective upon modern society will necessarily emerge as the major dimensions of differentiation in the object world . |
| 7 | When he was speaking , the pair would stand at a respectful distance , to hear him declaim poetry or discuss painting with a breadth of knowledge . |
| 8 | She would stand on a pink-lit stage and blow kisses to the gallery . |
| 9 | It will stand as a permanent memorial to the man whose generosity has so benefited the Theatre Collection . |
| 10 | He went on : ‘ I told the lads they can create something to tell their kids and grandchildren about because if we do beat Reading 's run , the record will stand for a long , long time . |
| 11 | Stern 's ironic and humane gaze can stand as a tiny but glowing symbol of everything that Britain gained from his generation of migrants . |
| 12 | I agree , and this can stand as a cogent it incomplete description of what is meant by a political homosexuality . |