Example sentences of "stand [adv prt] to the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | It remains to be seen how Taggart 's vision stands up to the floodlights — and the driving rain . |
| 3 | They ought to stand up to the goons . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | With a top capacity of some 75 litres it 's large enough for a week 's backpacking , or even extended expedition use , although I do have some doubts as to whether it could stand up to the rigours of expedition life . |
| 7 | What has been an ideal jacket for the Lakeland fells could be too heavy to take to Africa ; what seems like a good buy for walking in the Alps might not stand up to the rigours of a Himalayan winter . |
| 8 | Take this opportunity to try Amyway 's products and see how they really do stand up to the products you have used for years . |
| 9 | He was trying to undermine her self-confidence , make her believe she could n't stand up to the exigencies of canal life . |
| 10 | Aesthetic and romantic ideas of the beneficent properties of ‘ natural ’ remedies do not always stand up to the realities of practical life . |
| 11 | Why could n't Wilson stand up to the allies , why could n't had stand up to Clements or Lloyd George , in particular ? |
| 12 | It involves one of the few regulators that have shown some teeth in standing up to the powers that have been conferred by the Government on privatised British Gas . |
| 13 | And he made a number of management changes which reinforced the impression that Eurotunnel had become a company capable of acting in the best interests of bankers and shareholders and standing up to the demands of the Anglo-French contracting consortium . |
| 14 | There was one supreme test of the government 's resolve in ‘ standing up to the unions ’ , as the phrase went . |
| 15 | The Fontanellatesi , like all Italians , felt happy ; happy that they had stood up to the Fascists , and happy that they had helped the escaped prisoners . |
| 16 | Only the Jews and the Iranians stood up to the Romans , as they had stood up to the Seleucids . |
| 17 | In particular , Manuela , the girl who had wiped the word maricone from the blackboard , stood up to the rowdies and lashed them with her tongue . |
| 18 | Only the Jews and the Iranians stood up to the Romans , as they had stood up to the Seleucids . |