Example sentences of "[noun pl] stand [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | De Luca , alleged to be a member of the BR , was wanted by the Italian authorities to stand trial for the murder of a DC senator Roberto Ruffilli in 1988 [ see p. 35989 ] . |
| 2 | Jacques Devraux and his son were waiting beside a baggage truck that was already loaded with the rest of their hunting equipment , and leaving their sons to stand watch , the two men disappeared into the shadowy interior of the market to haggle over a purchase of several hundred pounds of salt and arsenical soap that would be used for drying and preserving the hides of animals they hoped to shoot . |
| 3 | France wanted the extradition of six Libyans to stand trial for the bombing . |
| 4 | Come evening and Kos comes alive with the action centred around the ‘ Street of Much Music ’ where bars and restaurants stand shoulder to shoulder broadcasting pop and rock , across the ruins opposite , loud into the night . |
| 5 | Two drivers stand trial over deaths of five young people . |
| 6 | Armed guards stand watch . |
| 7 | On 15 May 1782 the Weston brothers stood trial at the Old Bailey for the Great Mail Robbery , England 's most famous and costly crime . |
| 8 | Similarly , in Greek legend , dragons stood watch over the Golden Fleece and the Golden Apples of the HESPERIDES . |
| 9 | The parents stand guard on the eggs until they hatch and the fry reach , within a week , the free-swimming stage . |
| 10 | The Megger Stones , like Nine Standards Rigg and the Three Men of Gragareth , are a group of cairns standing sentinel below Crag Hill . |
| 11 | While consumer-loan interest rates fell by six percentage points in the decade , those on bank-affiliated credit-card balances stood pat at almost 20% . |
| 12 | Forester had moved to the window and looked out into the yard where the two long-wheelbase Land Rovers stood side by side , somehow managing to be tough and elegant at the same time in their rough-country rig with full-length roof racks and mounted searchlights . |
| 13 | Mature bulls stand 142–147cm at the withers and weigh 1,000–1,320kg , and cows are 130–137cm and 635–735kg . |
| 14 | USL is hoping to collect an impressive array of godparents to stand witness . |
| 15 | Two huge thermal power stations stand shoulder to shoulder on the edge of the charming university town of Pecs in southern Hungary . |
| 16 | For a group of young nuns to challenge the full authority of the Chinese state , visibly expressed by the tin-hatted martial-law troops standing guard only a hundred metres away , is an act of calculated defiance . |
| 17 | Here are narrow buildings with ornate , stepped and curving gables , topped by sculptured finials standing side by side , each one different but creating a homogeneous whole . |
| 18 | These are most visible when ducal retainers stood surety for each other . |
| 19 | These are most visible when ducal retainers stood surety for each other . |
| 20 | Although liability for affray is excluded where the threats are by words alone , it would be a somewhat unusual altercation in which both participants stood stock still whilst uttering their imprecations and threats . |
| 21 | The two Staffordshire horsemen stood guard |
| 22 | A court in Bhopal on Dec. 8 ordered the former chairman of the US-based Union Carbide Corp. , Warren Anderson , and eight other executives to stand trial in connection with the 1984 Bhopal poison gas disaster [ see pp. 33467-68 ] . |
| 23 | Much as I would love to see the 1995 World Cup help to kickstart the South African economy as overseas visitors pour in to fill impressive stadia and savour the beauty of the land , the facts are that as things stand rugby will be used as a political pawn . |
| 24 | One proposal emanating from the CDP Academic Affairs Standing Committee was that ‘ self-validation ’ might be achieved by instituting polytechnic Academic Advisory Committees , on the model of those for the CATs and the new universities — ; such AACs ‘ initially involving representatives of the CNAA ’ . |
| 25 | Inside , more armed officers stood guard . |
| 26 | Officers stood guard at the gates of the cemetery , making sure that only members of the official funeral cortege entered to attend the burial service . |
| 27 | In Tsarist Russia , two different traditions stood side by side , as befitted a country straddling two continents . |
| 28 | The two bakeries stood side by side . |
| 29 | Huge blue-and-white urns stood sentry in niches . |
| 30 | The colours of the stripes stand ford courage and sacrifice , truth and peace and faith and chivalry . |