Example sentences of "stand [adv] [prep] their [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the unions fail in their duties to black workers they must be challenged to stand up for their rights . |
| 2 | Young people have got to stand up for their rights Alexander . |
| 3 | Mining communities , the dock areas , Liverpool , all these people the only crime , the only crime they 've ever committed is to stand up for their rights . |
| 4 | Paul Twyman , of North Thanet said : ‘ The BMA are a trade union and they are entitled to stand up for their members ’ interests , but they are not entitled to abuse their professional position by deliberately scaremongering and frightening elderly patients . ’ |
| 5 | This helped give workers the confidence to stand up to their employers — to quit or strike or be sacked seemed less daunting . |
| 6 | They do n't wish it to happen , but it becomes an impossibility almost for them to stand up to their rights , and Mr talks about rights and no rights is in abstract and we all know how difficult it is then to stand up as a minority when you 're surrounded by that majority , but I 've had personal representations |
| 7 | WHAT WE ‘ post ’ feminists need are more men like Tony who are prepared to stand up in their men 's self-help groups — instead of wasting space on the semen-stained women 's page — and acknowledge together that they are basically ‘ sacks of scum ’ . |
| 8 | What is being called for is that graduates should have gained the beginnings of the ability to stand back from their studies and to take a view of it . |
| 9 | All ambulance crews would continue to stand by at their stations for 999 calls . |
| 10 | All ambulance crews would continue to stand by at their stations for 999 calls . |
| 11 | But there are some who appear to stand apart from their contemporaries in a particular way . |
| 12 | Denofa wanted to achieve an edge over rivals by marketing its Solidox brand in tubes that stand upright on their caps without outer cartons . |
| 13 | Some have their own lights for practising and stand out in their gardens to practise with an empty gun , not with shells otherwise half the police force in the district would come around wondering what is going on . |
| 14 | ‘ The community would have much less confidence in me if they believed I was not the sort of person who would stand up for their interests . |
| 15 | No other ship could stand up to their guns , but some sailors thought they might be defeated by the new weapon of the torpedo . |
| 16 | Once the bickering and backbiting , which also led to Terry Vaux and Gwilym Treharne standing down from their posts as the Welsh representatives on the International Rugby Board , had died down , the general committee resolved to consult the clubs again over links with the Republic . |
| 17 | Mr Martin drew Ortega 's attention to the Nicaraguan practice of keeping prisoners standing upright in their cells , a particularly painful and degrading treatment against which Amnesty had been vigorously campaigning . |
| 18 | The narrators have been persecuted for standing up for their principles . |
| 19 | Is my hon. Friend aware that he has earned the widespread respect of British farmers by standing up for their interests ? |
| 20 | They had little or no permanence and cohesion and therefore no organisation and no prospect of standing up for their rights . |
| 21 | There are some people who get bored who can just fall asleep , standing up with their eyes open . |
| 22 | Surfers despised bodyboarders for not standing up on their boards : they were n't walking on water , they were wallowing in it . |
| 23 | You can always tell when people are preparing to partake in a thrilling sport from the small pack of men standing around with their hands in their pockets . |
| 24 | De Gautet , the Frenchman , was with the other two , and the three men were standing there with their revolvers ready . |
| 25 | While the aide translated these remarks Joseph Sherman took the opportunity to glance around the room and noticed for the first time that groups of diminutive Annamese were standing quietly with their wives among the taller European men and women . |
| 26 | Round-headed bay trees stood stiffly in their pots , while from low white troughs scarlet geraniums and royal blue lobelia spilled haphazardly towards the ground . |
| 27 | In pre-European times , surfing was practised from Easter Island to New Guinea , in Micronesia and Melanesia , although it was only in Hawaii and Tahiti , whence the Hawaiians had come , that riders stood up on their boards . |
| 28 | In it backbiters stood up to their knees . |
| 29 | His finest hour was when , as a member of the Royal Commission , he stood up for their interests and dissented valiantly from the majority . |
| 30 | If it was not a community crime , if the Pitts had not been slaughtered because they stood out from their fellows in a way the neighbourhood resented , then why had they died ? |