Example sentences of "stand [adv] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FORMER Liberal leader Sir David Steel yesterday urged Labour to stand down for the Liberal-Democrats in seats they can not win at the next Election . |
| 2 | The industrialist MP Samuel Morley and others persuaded him to stand down on the grounds that ministers should not directly enter the political arena and Morley paid all his expenses when he gave up the contest . |
| 3 | In 1952 it adopted the practice of permitting deputies to stand in for the ministers : the deputies soon became permanent features , attending to all business except that deemed to be symbolically important . |
| 4 | It stands just beyond the doors . |
| 5 | The star reincarnates his No Name as an avenging ghost in a High Noon -style rotten community , forcing them to paint their town red before he stands up to the killers who are about to ride through and finally saving the place only by burning it down ( a process the US army tried in Vietnam ) . |
| 6 | It remains to be seen how Taggart 's vision stands up to the floodlights — and the driving rain . |
| 7 | ( Actually ‘ Boggers ’ is really called Mister Jones , but his hair stands up like the bristles on a bog er … toilet brush , hence his nickname . ) |
| 8 | They ought to stand up to the goons . ’ |
| 9 | In the longer term the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees tried to help individual farmers to eke out an adequate living , encourage the organization of small farmers at the village level , and foster the growth of a farming structure better able to stand up to the rigours of occupation than the present one in which middlemen and large landowners dominated agriculture . |
| 10 | Since this high work of fracture — which makes trees able to stand up to the buffetings of life and which makes wood such a useful material — can not be accounted for by any of the recognized work of fracture mechanisms which operate in man-made composites , George set out to find out what was really happening . |
| 11 | The women have become more feminist in their outlook and this has helped them to stand up against the men of the villages and take a firm stance in their lives . |
| 12 | Furthermore , they were intimately acquainted with the Greek republics and Macedonian monarchies of their time , and realistically assessed their capacities to stand up against the Romans . |
| 13 | This 18th century mansion stands magnificently on the cliffs overlooking the Bay of Naples . |
| 14 | This convention , so standard in the comedies that it escapes notice ( especially in modern theatre-productions , where it is very rare to be able to hear any difference between prose and verse ) , stands out in the tragedies , where the clown 's reduction of the medium imposes an often uneasy mood of relaxation or verbal indulgence , outside the time of the tragic action , frustrating its rhythm . |
| 15 | , John ( fl. 1649 ) , radical pamphleteer , stands out among the polemicists of the civil war period as an advanced thinker on constitutional law and theory with a talent for vivid prose . |
| 16 | Len 's mop of unruly fair hair always made him stand out in a crowded goalmouth but , even over 30 years later , he continues to stand out in the memories of Palace fans who saw him play for our club . |
| 17 | Yet the poem stands apart from the attitudes most commonly expressed in her work , and , given its obscurity , it is necessary to be cautious with respect to its specific meaning . |
| 18 | ‘ Stand away from the elevators , please , ’ said Duvall . |
| 19 | Stand upright with the arms bent and the dumb-bells at shoulder height . |
| 20 | Stand upright with the arms straight down , holding the barbell with the hands shoulder width apart and the palms facing outwards . |
| 21 | Stand upright with the feet approximately 46cm ( 18in ) apart and pointing out slightly . |
| 22 | Stand upright with the dumb-bells by your sides . |
| 23 | Stand upright with the dumb-bells on the front of the thighs and the palms facing the thighs . |
| 24 | The individual who 's gon na be assertive is likely to be open and honest or likely to admit things that are not so good at honest those , but they 're not gon na necessarily apologise for those , they 're gon na treat those as statements of fact and they 're certainly gon na try and involve other people and actually say what do you think this , what are some ways forward er but it does n't mean that they 're gon na be walked all over and they still stand up for the things that they firmly believe in . |
| 25 | and stand up on the pedals as I passed |
| 26 | Five Railway Cup medals with Ulster and representing Ireland stand out as the highpoints of Jim Reilly 's marvellous career . |
| 27 | Around the margins of the hill , the termites construct tall , thin-walled chimneys which stand out from the sides like ribs . |
| 28 | Of these , semantically and ideologically the leaf-people and the original people stand closest to the Chewong , while Tanko and keoi stand closest to the outsiders . |
| 29 | As Korah , Dathan and Abiram stand defiantly at the doors of their tents with their wives and children , the ground opens beneath them and swallows them up , together with the tents and all their belongings . |
| 30 | and er , I think until women 's football take it on board all the way erm , they 're not really gon na stand up with the men they have to become , referees , they have to become coaches , and more and more of these people erm , taking responsibility . |