Example sentences of "[pron] stand a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have SO MANY GREAT PRIZES to give away , everyone stands a good chance of winning something ! |
| 2 | And to be honest , I do n't believe any of them stands a chance of ever making a comeback with me . |
| 3 | Here I stand a Dreadlocks , a modern day Rasta |
| 4 | ‘ If you can make me understand that , I stand a better chance of helping to get you the money to find it , ’ Waldegrave said . |
| 5 | Ludo and I stand a few more moments looking at the body in the mud There is no doubt that he is dead . |
| 6 | I mean , if I stand a chance I should be hearing from any time now really . |
| 7 | If I stood a starving child before you , |
| 8 | Car dealer Ricky Evans , 30 , of Basingstoke , Hants , said yesterday : ‘ I did n't think I stood a chance so I 'd thrown the slip aside . ’ |
| 9 | Not the young Francis either , in whom I stood a better hope of experiencing the odd happy memory , but Francis as I 'd last experienced him with the tang of his Lucky Strikes , last night 's whisky and dejection all togged up as joie de vivre . |
| 10 | I stood a moment , staring at the empty floor of the turret . |
| 11 | I stood a few yards away from him , my sandalled feet feeling the mossy lawn underneath , — and then he opened his eyes . |
| 12 | Its two-hundred-foot-high tower is surmounted by a dome on which stands a golden Virgin holding aloft the Christ-child . |
| 13 | To the right here is Via Cerva in which stands a restaurant named after one of Milan 's ancient mortal enemies , Barbarossa . |
| 14 | Wearing a chic black costume and white fur wrap , she is seen waving to him as he departs for the colony before walking away to a smart car beside which stands a chauffeur . |
| 15 | Now comes a cut to a deliberate contrast : the west front of the church , an impressive building which stands a little apart on the far side of the square . |
| 16 | In some such cases specific protection , in the form of import controls , subsidies or state purchasing , may be justified on socialist grounds , for instance if the industry is a struggling ‘ infant ’ with good future prospects ( ‘ good ’ , that is , in respect of the efficient satisfaction of social need ) , or even a struggling ‘ geriatric ’ which stands a good chance of reviving its fortunes through a thorough re-investment programme . |
| 17 | In the second position the notes obtainable stand a semitone below the above , and so on through all the positions until the seventh position is reached , which stands a diminished 5th below the first : seventh position . |
| 18 | Break it to go round a planting bed , make a circle on which to stand a large plant pot or statue , or to give a paved area around a rotary clothes dryer . |
| 19 | Similarly the many Mexicans looking simply to cast an anti-government vote supported the left , which stood a greater chance of winning and emerged in second place amid evidence of substantial fraud by the government . |
| 20 | Soon we reached the shrine , a car-park-like space beside the road in which stood a large glass tank containing a painted figure of Mary looking with pity on Jesus crucified . |
| 21 | The architect did not try to reproduce a mediaeval church with aisles and chancel but chose an octagon shape with one side designated as an ‘ east end ’ with a window under which stood a Holy Table . |
| 22 | In preparation for the final session , I designated a ‘ robot controller ’ room area , roped off , a large placard with ROBOT CONTROLLER in red ( I should have added PRIVATE , DO NOT ENTER as a nice re-inforcer of the point , but I did not think about it in time ) against a dais on which stood a table and a hand microphone ( a television control device which he had carried around with him on previous occasions ) . |
| 23 | Yanto was pointing across the valley to the next hill , on top of which stood a tall ancient tower with turreted ramparts . |
| 24 | At the end of last year , the FDA was persuaded that the Utah Medical Center had evolved a plastic and aluminium ‘ heart ’ ( known as the Jarvik 7 , after its designer , Dr Robert Jarvik ) which stood a chance of sustaining some kind of life , and permission was given for a series of seven experiments , employing the new toy , after which the instrument 's worth was to be reviewed . |
| 25 | A little farther on she came to a small white cottage , in the porch of which stood a nutcrackery old woman whom Breeze mentally dubbed the Witch of Endor . |
| 26 | ‘ Hello … what in … ? ’ but the words died on his lips as he drew out into the full brilliance of the moon something that shone with the colour of the moon itself , a circlet of gold on which stood a row of triangular shapes from each of which flashed a pebble , some green , some blue , some red the colour of rubies . |
| 27 | On very early model helicopters this was probably the only method which stood a any chance of success , but only just ! |
| 28 | Mildred decided to get to the chest of drawers , on which stood a small mirror , so that she could see just how small she was . |
| 29 | Monnet himself seemed to be rather more cautious about going too fast too quickly , and seemed to hanker still for sectoral integration in the first instance , especially in the developing field of nuclear energy , as a strategy which stood a better chance of succeeding in the short term . |
| 30 | It consisted of a small oblong patch of mown but weedy grass , in the centre of which stood a small green flowerless shrub with dirty leaves . |