Example sentences of "and stand [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His best work has a direct simplicity , benefits from its autobiographical inspiration , and stands as a worthy memorial to all those who died in the Spanish civil war . |
| 2 | The Carnaud Metal Box plant in Wennington Road on the edge of the town was built only six years ago and stands in a landscaped site of some four acres . |
| 3 | They yield 6.2 p.c. and stand on a historic multiple of 12½ . |
| 4 | Others , though redundant , are maintained to the point of safety and stand as an impressive reminder of a more faithful age . |
| 5 | On the whole the ‘ kinship defenders ’ defend the biological parents and their value to the child , and the ‘ society-as-parent ’ school supports the psychological parents — those who have given most care and attention to the child and stand in a close , loving relationship to him [ or her ] . |
| 6 | She would have reacted in exactly the same way if she had been stone-cold sober and standing in a bare room under a fluorescent light . |
| 7 | In 1880 he had had a political fling and stood as a Liberal candidate for the City of London in favour of disestablishment , temperance legislation , social and political reform . |
| 8 | He was Hampshire 's coach in 1939 and stood as a first-class umpire in 1949 , the year before his death . |
| 9 | Charles collapsed like a glove puppet with the hand withdrawn , and stood for a long moment , sagging . |
| 10 | When Martha had gone as well , Tim picked up the whisky he had poured earlier and stood for a long time in the hallway . |
| 11 | She had risen from her deep curtsey , and stood for a long moment gazing steadily into his face . |
| 12 | She went up to her room , put the Diary in her drawer and stood for a long time , breathing on the window and drawing faces . |
| 13 | She walked one last time down the rickety boardwalk in front of the cabins , and stood for a long time looking down at the sleeping lodge , the moody lake beyond it . |
| 14 | The threw back the bedclothes , shed her clinging nightgown and stood under a cool shower until she began to come alive . |
| 15 | Severed eyes are best potted individually in good clean garden soil and stood in a shallow bowl of water with their growing points submerged . |
| 16 | They came and stood in a little group , disciplined and obedient . |
| 17 | The piglets slowed their headlong gallop to a trot , then , as though controlled by telepathy , they all stopped at once and stood in a pink group in one corner , |
| 18 | These thermae covered a very large area , greater than that of the Palace of Westminster , and stood upon an artificial platform some 20 feet high . |
| 19 | He dropped his hands to his sides and stood like a little dog , found out , and admitting : ‘ Yes , I know I have a silly sort of fancy for Lal . |
| 20 | He walked into Lipton 's and stood behind a fat woman who immediately said , ‘ Ee are , Chris , serve this chap . |