Example sentences of "stands [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An animal capable of symbolization can carry away from a situation an inner trace that stands in for the response it may make when it next encounters the situation . |
| 2 | It resists criticism and usually stands over against the culture of its day . |
| 3 | But then I 've got ta meet Emma and she stands up at the top . |
| 4 | It is a small but spread-out , almost incoherent town , the pleasantest part of which stands up above the river and has a row of modest hotels . |
| 5 | I think the bit that stands up above the horizon is fine , I mean I think that gives you a good idea of what it would have been like had you been able to get the whole , or not perhaps the whole of it , but a lot more of the post up above the horizon simply by getting down lower . |
| 6 | Forests get hacked down because nobody stands up to the logging industry . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | Bauhaus ' ‘ Dark Entries ’ remains a ferocious blue ( black ) print ; Danse Society 's ‘ We 're So Happy ’ is surprisingly epic and coolly resonant ; and mid-'80s music hall like X-Mal Deutschland , Sex Gang Children , Specimen and Alien Sex Fiend stands up to the test of time . |
| 9 | It remains to be seen how Taggart 's vision stands up to the floodlights — and the driving rain . |
| 10 | Bob Murray finds out how well a big green luxury saloon stands up to the strain of chauffeuring a discerning family of four around France |
| 11 | Labour must , once again , be the party that stands up for the individual against the vested interests that hold him or her back … |
| 12 | Even now if I look at a video the hair still stands up on the back of the neck , and you get that tingle on the spine . |
| 13 | He stands up with the assistance of the therapist : he may do his trousers up while the therapist makes sure he remains properly aligned and upright , or the therapist may fasten the trousers while the patient concentrates on standing and balancing . |
| 14 | ( Actually ‘ Boggers ’ is really called Mister Jones , but his hair stands up like the bristles on a bog er … toilet brush , hence his nickname . ) |
| 15 | Recently built , this attractive gasthof stands back across the road from the gondola lift which gives access to the Brandstadl mountain . |
| 16 | The Arts : Lenny stands back from the brink of bathos |
| 17 | This is Sonnet 94 , ‘ which at no point addresses the Friend directly , stands back from the group much as a contemplative soliloquy does from the dialogue of a play ’ . |
| 18 | THE CATHEDRAL at Lyon stands back from the bank of the Saone , and , from the other side of the river , is half hidden by bland blocks of flats . |
| 19 | The church tower stands out on the skyline in the middle of the village and the church dates from the 14th century , though extensively restored and to some extent rebuilt in Victorian times . |
| 20 | Star stayer Rahan Arc ( 9.15 ) showed a glimpse of his old form at Walthamstow on Thursday and stands out as the banker bet of the seven open races on an attractive Ramsgate card . |
| 21 | They ease gently , throbbingly through ‘ Kinky Afro ’ , but ‘ Loose Fit ’ stands out as the song that suits their current mood exactly ; slinky , elastic , swaying with a sexy guitar , it 's effortlessly groovy . |
| 22 | One man stands out as the architect of the Midland 's golden era : Sir Edward Holden . |
| 23 | In the US there have been extensive experiments with new forms of reporting and in Europe , Germany stands out as the leader in environmental reporting . |
| 24 | What stands out about the development of transport in England between 1700 and 1815 is the creation from privately supplied capital of a system which , though not preconceived , was to prove sufficiently complementary in its supply and its operation to accommodate a modernising economy with a growing range of activities . |
| 25 | The list of Scottish footballers who have frequented their local turf accountant is longer than the starting lineup for the Grand National , but when it comes to identifying the ante-post favourite one player stands out above the rest . |
| 26 | The contemporary hero is one who stands out against the crowd to fulfil a personal destiny . |
| 27 | This convention , so standard in the comedies that it escapes notice ( especially in modern theatre-productions , where it is very rare to be able to hear any difference between prose and verse ) , stands out in the tragedies , where the clown 's reduction of the medium imposes an often uneasy mood of relaxation or verbal indulgence , outside the time of the tragic action , frustrating its rhythm . |
| 28 | On the road , however , in regular use , the Corrado VR6 is the one that stands out in the driver 's mind as the quickest , most comfortable , most civilised and most user-friendly of all . |
| 29 | But one line stands out from the rest — a tetrad only 512 cm long ( about 312 km on the ground ) . |
| 30 | Where WinEdit stands out from the rest is for programmers who use Microsoft C and SDK . |