Example sentences of "be to stand [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even less radical , if I 'm to stand by the comments I made last month ) ; or something that we think is missing from current trends ( something a bit retro maybe , but where 's your originality ? ) . |
| 2 | This is simply natural , it 's a fact , you both know that whatever happens , even if God and the Devil were to stand in the way , you will have what you want . |
| 3 | The statue , by Philip Jackson , vice-president of the Royal Society of British Sculptors , is to stand at the museum 's entrance gates . |
| 4 | The technique is to stand across the seat and swing the adze backwards and forwards between your legs removing a shaving every time , without digging into the wood and stopping the tool . |
| 5 | First , if holism and individualism are to be distinct , causation and autonomy must be mutually exclusive categories : if the autonomous character of action is to stand in the way of the truth of determinism , actions can not at the same time be caused . |
| 6 | This is a shower/dryer — all you do is to stand in the shower and let yourself be bathed in jets of warm air — it 's a more hygienic , effortless and invigorating way of drying off . |
| 7 | What makes it more enjoyable Like my father years ago , Is to stand by the river where Oxford and Cambridge yearly row . |
| 8 | perhaps , he thought as he followed Maisie down the front path , it was that he knew them only as fathers , as people whose primary function was to stand at the edge of swimming pools , dank gymnasia or football fields , their collective manhoods bruised by nurture , blurring with age and helpless love . |
| 9 | By the time she was ten years old the nearest she came to having a bath was to stand on the bathmat and sponge herself down . |
| 10 | All the tug could do then was to stand by the tow until the gale abated . |
| 11 | The giveaway was to stand in the upstairs hall outside Albie 's old bedroom and examine the door . |
| 12 | All he could do for the moment was to stand in the doorway and look about him . |
| 13 | From that occasion Halima learnt that the fastest way to get a bucket of oats was to stand in the fence , and not even feeding excessive amounts of hay or removing the bottom two wires from the fence had the slightest effect in breaking this bad habit . |