Example sentences of "stand as a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rule of law , then , stands as a central element of the British Constitution , but no one is sure precisely what it means . |
| 2 | In Masterman 's view , the Battle of Orgreave stands as a salutary reminder that ‘ what is omitted from television 's agenda can not easily enter the general consciousness and that the control of information , whether it takes a brutal or sophisticated form , is the very cornerstone of political power ’ ( ibid.:108 ) . |
| 3 | The ‘ thick description ’ takes on a type of metaphoric quality : it stands as a symbolic indication of some wider social meaning within the culture which is elicited through critical interpretation . |
| 4 | For community self-help programmes , Malawi in southern Africa stands as a shining example , having completed well over 30 piped water schemes with the willing toil of rural communities . |
| 5 | For now , their impudent , untutored music stands as a shining example of talent as yet untainted by the demands of The Man . |
| 6 | One of the mill towers still stands as a private house and the old ropery is the base for an antiques shop . |
| 7 | Ralph Waldo Emerson 's remark stands as a typical example : ‘ As men 's prayers are a disease of the will , so are their creeds a disease of the intellect . ’ |
| 8 | First , implicature stands as a paradigmatic example of the nature and power of pragmatic explanations of linguistic phenomena . |
| 9 | Only the spire of the church could be saved , and today it stands as a stark reminder of that devastating night in August 1989 . |
| 10 | In the early 1980s detectors were becoming even more sophisticated and versatile , particularly in their ability to cut out ferrous metal and locate small coins ; the increase in the finding of Celtic silver minims and medieval hammered farthings stands as a good testimony to that . |
| 11 | Rather it stands as a nasty addition this winter to the equation which leads to accidents year in , year out . |
| 12 | The way in which polling day is conducted , little altered since secret ballots were introduced , stands as a reliable landmark in a volatile political scene . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | One building stands as a lone design example in the middle of a prepared expensive living area . |
| 15 | It stands as a sympathetic appraisal by a critic who is trusting largely to his own intuitive sense of quality : |
| 16 | But she was always adored by the British public , especially the people of Swindon , where a statue stands as a permanent memorial . |
| 17 | The first round of the presidential elections was notable for the fact that both main candidates attracted substantially more votes than their parties had received in the parliamentary elections , even though in the case of Constantinescu , the rector of Bucharest University , he had only been named as a compromise choice at the July 27 DCR Congress ( the NLP having left the alliance after its unsuccessful bid to persuade ex-King Mihai ( Michael ) to stand as a presidential candidate ) . |
| 18 | They also suggested that the building , whose 14 columns still stand as a striking landmark of the site , was erected probably in two phases in the first century BC . |
| 19 | They stand as a devastating comment on her view of Scotland , the one kingdom which was actually hers to govern . |
| 20 | By themselves , these facts do not stand as a complete answer to the challenge : if the industrial co-operative form of organisation is more efficient than the conventional form , why is it that the first has not displaced the second but has remained until recently a negligible feature of the economy and , even now , can hardly be said to have become so far of more than marginal importance ? |
| 21 | If it does not stand as a moral example to the followers of the Church , it counts for nothing . |
| 22 | Such a response seems understandable given that it allows McFaul to explain why he is at odds with the Party while still maintaining that he is loyal to its principles and to its founder , but it can not stand as a general proposition . |
| 23 | Shakespeare , Spenser , Milton : the list could be spun out , to include for instance Yeats , whose poem ‘ The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland ’ could stand as a Tolkienian epigraph . |
| 24 | It will stand as a permanent memorial to the man whose generosity has so benefited the Theatre Collection . |
| 25 | Historians have been attracted by the wealth of available material : Darwin 's private notebooks have survived , along with much of his correspondence , and this material is now being published so that scholars everywhere can have access to what must stand as a unique record of creative thought . |
| 26 | Some people have felt that this borrowing from Dorothy and others shows a certain egotism on Wordsworth 's part , but it was his method as an artist to absorb things into himself , and think of them for a long period before writing them down ; nor is it necessary to maintain , in any case , that the ‘ I ’ of a Wordsworth poem is necessarily the poet himself — it may stand as a universal shorthand symbol with which the reader can equally identify . |
| 27 | Holder , despite rave reports from Pakistan after standing as a neutral umpire in the series against India , has n't umpired another England Test since . |
| 28 | The party 's chairperson , Alan Warren , who is standing as a local government candidate in the Castle ward , has hit out at planning restrictions on commercial development in the north of the city . |
| 29 | At the next elections to the Council , Wylie continued his protest by standing as a Protestant Unionist and he was elected . |
| 30 | He blamed political bias , but when he had stood as a Labour candidate in the 1945 elections in which the socialists swept to post-war victory , Hugo had not won his seat . |