Example sentences of "stand [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kitchen floors need to be tough enough to withstand all sorts of spills , grease and damp , comfortable enough to stand on for long periods , and handsome to look at . |
| 2 | Never use wicker chairs to stand on for odd jobs around the house . |
| 3 | French Professor stands down from British transplant centre |
| 4 | The last American Air Force Squadron at RAF Upper Heyford stands down from active duty today . |
| 5 | A VICTORIOUS Mr Major was back in Downing Street last night finalising an extensive Cabinet reshuffle as the twice-defeated Mr Kinnock was preparing to stand down as Labour leader , probably in the autumn . |
| 6 | THE case must be made again for judges to stand down at 70 years of age . |
| 7 | The Mayoress , Marie Smailes , was away , so the Mayor , Coun Stephen Smailes , asked their god-daughter Emma Lee , of Patterdale Avenue , Newham Grange Estate , to stand in as first lady . |
| 8 | The new outlook we have been outlining as coming to stand over against Christian orthodoxy was by no means necessarily irreligious or anti-religious . |
| 9 | Pandarus ' prose not only proves that he does n't take Troilus seriously , so turning our reaction towards a scepticism that stands off from full involvement , but in time it establishes the speaker as a matter-of-fact fixer , who is not only alien to romance but coarsens whatever he touches . |
| 10 | Tommy 's record as a manager stands up to any scrutiny ; two championships , three Bass Cups , ten other trophies and regular jaunts to Europe . |
| 11 | Wrangham 's theory remains tentative but if it stands up to further investigation it suggests that humans were primordially partrilineal . |
| 12 | I will be true despite thy scythe and thee ’ ) , in Sonnet 116 the Friend seems to have receded into the background while the poet stands up for all men ; Although the poet 's love is included in the affirmation , I would agree with Ingram and Redpath in seeing the poem rather as ‘ a meditative attempt to define perfect love ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ If the church is n't going to stand up for good values , who is ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It 's hard to stand up for that length of time , ’ said Couples , who had two double-bogeys in his 71 . |
| 15 | Reading right-wing papers also made people more inclined to believe the Conservative Party had convincing policies and was likely to keep its promises , that Kinnock was neither decisive , nor trustworthy , nor a good leader of a team , and especially that he could not be relied upon to stand up for British interests against the USSR . |
| 16 | She had no doubt that Dana would be with Garry and her twin was n't made to stand up to that kind of trouble . |
| 17 | No one has yet been able to stand up to that complex and refuse to give it the money . |
| 18 | And so there they , they claim that his childhood was relevant , because of this character defect in , in Wilson , his inability to stand up to strong men . |
| 19 | It can not have been easy for an ordinand or a curate to stand up to contemptuous persiflage about his religion from one of the ablest minds of the generation who happened to be his own brother . |
| 20 | A lightweight racer/trainer many look sleek on the shelf , but it is n't going to stand up to heavy mileage and regular forays off-road . |
| 21 | They are generally thicker and harder-fired than wall tiles , to enable them to stand up to heavy wear without cracking . |
| 22 | Before they met , Marshall announced the absurd news that enquiries in the rag trade had revealed that Trilyn , notorious for its inability to stand up to heavy wear , was most frequently used for trouser pockets . |
| 23 | So if , if you are a poor peasant you are thinking hold on the Party expects me to stand up to this landlord and accuse him of this this and this , actually point a finger at him when there is a chance that , you know , the Kuomintang is , is twenty miles away and they , I know they 've come into other villages as they come back , m of land to peasants.s in the form of land |
| 24 | As faith in the League declined , some called for a new alliance system — and a new Government — to stand up to fascist aggression . |
| 25 | But Joseph was now resigned to moving to the reservation , saying : ‘ It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk , but I urged my people to be quiet , and not to begin a war . ’ |
| 26 | Only the A E U have the courage to stand up against big brother , the T U C , warning against denying the unemployed a glimmer of hope . |
| 27 | Her education was heavily concentrated on languages , Latin , Spanish and Italian , even probably some Greek ; among her formal Latin letters , written as exercises , one stands out with ironic interest , for it was addressed to John Calvin . |
| 28 | By contrast with the calculating prose of the bawd , listing the attractions of his new acquisition , Marina 's verse stands out with greater pathos ( IV.ii.64–6 ) . |
| 29 | During the last few years , we have begun to learn something of these mothers ' true feelings from the women who suffered the regime at first hand : what stands out in such accounts is the emotion which is still generated in the mother by her own memories . |
| 30 | This stands out in stark contrast to the four-speed 'box in the 500SL we tested last December . |