Example sentences of "standing [adv prt] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fabbiano was standing off to the side , his arm raised like a parade marshal 's as he directed the models off stage . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But he has made standing up to the teaching unions his thing . |
| 4 | The CIT 's members are standing up to the recession and keeping close to their customers and associates . |
| 5 | But Dubcek was not as popular at home where some still blamed him for not standing up to the Warsaw Pact in 1968 and therefore being responsible for a 23year military occupation by Soviet forces . |
| 6 | By the end of the campaign , his average image score had risen to 65 but his score on standing up to the USSR had dropped to 56 . |
| 7 | Scores on this image ( standing up to the USSR ) were never very predictable for any politician . |
| 8 | If doubt can conjure up images of heroism ( the David of Doubt standing up to the Goliath of Lies ) , it can just as easily represent what is most cowardly , indecisive and dictatorial in us all . |
| 9 | It was very successful , both in appearance and in standing up to the wear small children give their clothes . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And yet the fascination among ( overwhelmingly white ) rock music critics with the big , scary black man ( talk about perpetrating stereotypes ! ) survives , to the point where NME is getting all teary-eyed about Brave Little Time-Warner , heroically standing up to the Huns of censorship . |
| 12 | There was one supreme test of the government 's resolve in ‘ standing up to the unions ’ , as the phrase went . |
| 13 | Fancy standing back to the North Sea for ten hours or more handling cold fish ! |