Example sentences of "stand [adv prt] [coord] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , what happens of course , is th that the lecture is brilliantly delivered , er , but , but , what happens is he , the chauffeur finishes two minutes early and the chairman , being excellent as a Chairperson , actually says , we have time for just one question , and er , someone stands up and asks the most dreadful question from the audience , and er , the chauffeur listens to the question , thinks , and th then says , that 's questions very easy , very easy indeed , that question is so easy , I 'm going to ask my chauffeur who is sitting at the back of the room |
| 2 | Erm they are going into the villages , they 're making contacts with individual peasants erm it 's those peasants that , that they get to stand up and make the first accusations , it 's those peasants who join the Party erm and the process can build up in , in a way which was more difficult before then . |
| 3 | I did n't have to stand up and tell the whole truth of my heart unless I wanted to . |
| 4 | Each recruit had to stand up and sing a song in his own language . |
| 5 | You know y y y y you 're a poor peasant and the Party 's coming in in conditions of civil war and we say right erm we 've got ta get land reform and the land reform process is being done , not by the Party coming in and imposing it , it is very much done by the Party encouraging and enabling the peasants to , to take the moves themselves , to stand up and begin the criticism . |
| 6 | No longer the excuse of keeping low profile actions , hoping for a Labour government because if we have n't got the guts to stand up and fight the government that made these laws , then we 've got no right to challenge a future Labour government that inherits 'em . |
| 7 | However , it is clearly impossible for us all to stand back and watch the booksellers ' position , in total terms , being undermined by some publishers ' double standards . |
| 8 | ‘ This sounds easy but in fact proved how difficult it can be to stand back and identify every activity carried out in your own workplace ( and those that maybe are n't but should be ! ) where standard procedures should be employed . |
| 9 | He will have little opportunity to stand back and examine the data in the cool light of the academic ‘ ivory tower ’ . |
| 10 | Then I force myself to stand back and assess the situation . |
| 11 | The need for patience and the ability to stand back and let the groups reach their own decisions became new management skills . |
| 12 | A good resolution before you exchange contracts would be to stand back and have a really long look at the wood ! |
| 13 | We have suggested that a feature of leadership is the ability to stand back and take the wider perspective . |
| 14 | We are having to stand by and watch a needless massacre because the UN ca n't get its act together . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm not inclined to stand by and watch a marriage-breaker in action . |
| 16 | Stand up and make a positive statement . |
| 17 | I said I do n't want and Keith says , I , I get so angry I , I stand up and give the boat such a wack |
| 18 | Cos when we shared it out between three it was like if you just stand up and have a look along there . |
| 19 | As Richards ( 1987 , p. 29 ) observes , such central divisions ‘ must be willing to … stand back and let the … [ cost centre ] manager succeed or fail , according to his or her own lights ’ . |
| 20 | Alternatively , I could find Scamp myself , then stand back and let the cavalry come . |
| 21 | If we stand back and consider the structure which has resulted from the combination of primary rules of obligation with the secondary rules of recognition , change and adjudication , it is plain that we have here not only the heart of a legal system , but a most powerful tool for the analysis of much that has puzzled both the jurist and the political theorist … |
| 22 | I shall stand up and sing the national anthem and encourage all those around me to do the same . ’ |
| 23 | I shall stand up and sing the national anthem and encourage all those around me to do the same . ’ |
| 24 | It was fabulous because King Crimson had such a tremendous sound and such a tremendous image that for them to suddenly stand up and do a lot of Buddy Holly hits with Donovan singing vocals was really cute . |
| 25 | ‘ We can do it if the leadership of this nation will just stand up and do the right thing . ’ |
| 26 | On the command of ‘ 1-2-3 lift ’ , both helpers should stand up and carry the person to a chair or bed . |
| 27 | Oh gosh , I mean , well you can , you can stand up and use the |
| 28 | one is that i it may be that the old moral economy worked because the peasants recognized that , in a sense , that was the way they w well they , they could not stand up and criticize the landlord th the , the most they could do was to try and get the landlord to behave in a reasonable way , and that within that there would then be the sub-culture , the counter-culture of , of beginnings of mutual aid and what is happening in is in part that the communists are making them think the old moral economy work , but in part they are picking up on those sub- culture bits because the , the , the whole of mutual aid idea is , is coming from existing peasant cooperations . |
| 29 | He should stand up and repudiate the threat in the House . |
| 30 | Shiny plastic and vivid purple padding on the waist and shoulder straps make the sack stand out and guarantee a closer look . |