Example sentences of "standing [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty-one of Lafontant 's alleged accomplices were also standing trial on the same charge . |
| 2 | Clerk of the course Nick Lees said : ‘ There is standing water in the straight and the weather forecast is bad as well . ’ |
| 3 | They are standing ln for the WRAC Staff Band Who are away on an important engagement in Eastbourne and Who have only recently returned from a tour in BAOR . |
| 4 | Moving the suspension of standing orders at the next meeting of Cork County Council , Councillor Gene Fitzgerald TD complained that the first council members heard of the planning decision was when they read of it in the morning paper . |
| 5 | Cheney said that he had dismissed Dugan , who had held his command for only three months , because he had violated standing orders on the public discussion of military operations and had showed " poor judgment at a sensitive time " . |
| 6 | But there without doubt were the elusive twin spires of Saigon 's cathedral that he 'd seen from far off , stationary now and clearly visible , standing sentinel over the wide , tree-lined avenues . |