Example sentences of "[verb] not stand " in BNC.
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| 1 | But agriculture has not stood still . |
| 2 | But this simplistic account of that crucial phase of evolution has not stood the test of modern investigation . |
| 3 | Unfortunately the detailed work on which that revision is itself based has only been published in Soviet journals in Russian , so has not stood the test of scrutiny by Western astronomers . |
| 4 | Committee Miss J. Brown and Mrs. V. Hawkins have decided not to stand for re-election to the committee . |
| 5 | Committee Miss J. Brown and Mrs. V. Hawkins have decided not to stand for re-election to the committee . |
| 6 | John Taylor says he thought long and hard before deciding not to stand for the Conservatives in Cheltenham again . |
| 7 | It used to be for really petty things like not standing up , or shouting out the window , running up the dinner queue and pushing it . |
| 8 | T. Behrens gives the impression that he has more to say about himself than the progress of this mad love — to which he did not stand all that close at the time , brother as he was — has allowed him to come up with . |
| 9 | A further disrupting factor was the academy 's assumption that knowledge did not stand still but was advancing and progressive ; if English accepted the security and opportunities of academic institutionalization , then it had to accept its concept of knowledge , and generate appropriate forms and volume of research . |
| 10 | John Prescott , who did not stand last year , leaped to third place above both Tony Benn and Dennis Skinner , who used to come first and second . |
| 11 | I did not stand staring but I could not help but see . |
| 12 | The assertion , by Mr Guy Woodall , 37 , of Leatherhead , Surrey , that his sparkling British drink was the 400-year-old tradition known as elderflower champagne did not stand up to analysis , said counsel Mr Nicolas Bragge . |
| 13 | This may say something about Bridget Freemantle , that she did not stand on her dignity in her friendship with the poet , even though she came from a more genteel background , and was about the age of Leapor 's parents . |
| 14 | With further government setbacks in by-elections in Bradford and Bootle on 8 November , there was a strong feeling that Heseltine 's reputation would be irreparably damaged if he did not stand : it was now or never . |
| 15 | Serious collapse was avoided ( though , as one official involved recalled , ‘ it was pretty close at the end ’ ) , but the new style of government as a whole did not stand up so well . |
| 16 | But the argument did not stand up . |
| 17 | The small number of Asians interviewed in the main survey did not stand out as different from the rest of the sample . |
| 18 | With the train rapidly bearing down on her she did not stand a chance . |
| 19 | I did not stand for the job ’ . |
| 20 | He argued that the public did not stand at the box-office window and demand dramas with happy endings or which mixed pathos and humour , nor did it demand comedy made up of ‘ slapstick ’ , ‘ gags ’ with ‘ three or so dashes of serious situation and a bit of irony to top off ’ . |
| 21 | For the government , acceptance of central planning did not stand or fall on the issue of nationalisation . |
| 22 | He replaces Berndt Schultz , the Fair 's founder , who did not stand for re-election . |
| 23 | Wright it was established that a director did not stand in a fiduciary relationship with his shareholders . |
| 24 | The book made large , generous claims for life , and for itself : its beguiling charm made people reluctant to point out that what they had read was in fact a factitious marshalling of concerns that did not stand up too well to scrutiny . |
| 25 | Biblical scholarship itself did not stand still . |
| 26 | Of course Japan herself did not stand still during this time , but the substantial advances that did take place were not influenced by external models or ideas . |
| 27 | But Birkenhead did not stand alone . |
| 28 | Pound was not to escape lightly , however , and although he did not stand trial he was judged insane and spent the next eleven years in confinement . |
| 29 | The 1910 dispute , which is particularly well documented in the press as well as in manuscript sources , enables us to see that on this occasion at least , the women did not stand by and wait for it to be resolved over their heads . |
| 30 | European leaders who had feared since Korea that America 's relentless anti-Communism would end in disaster gave Johnson little support and he did not stand for re-election in 1968 . |