Example sentences of "they stood [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and his fellow escapee had been told that if they could get to Marseilles , then in unoccupied France , they stood a good chance of finding a ship bound for England . |
| 2 | They stood a little way back from the others as though unsure of their right to be there at all , and they were in bizarre contrast to the rest of the mourners . |
| 3 | As long as new measures of social policy in these areas could be presented as solutions to an inner city problem they stood a greater chance of popular acceptance than if they were seen as no more than further attempts to rid the nation of the welfare state legacy of the post-war era and the dependency mentality that went along with it . |
| 4 | Next to them stood the second rank of drinkers , ‘ troops ’ of the gangs , not yet vicious enough to challenge the leaders or even each other , unless they were mob-handed . |
| 5 | Behind them stood the big brothers of the computing world , the Primes , Vax 's and assorted IBM mainframes , more powerful and versatile in their capabilities and developing slow and awkward means of communication and portability with a degree of interactive processing that still left time for coffee and often for a three course meal . |