Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] it stand " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it has to make up its mind where it stands in the matter of the European Community . |
| 2 | They would n't recognise emotion if it stood up and hit them ! ’ |
| 3 | Erm , I think probably I would support the recommendation as it stands because I do think that we need to have a trial to see if the end performance , and I very very much support the idea of the end performance , er in district . |
| 4 | Lardie was the last fluent speaker of the Kalkadoon language , a language of such versatility and ingenuity that it stands as a monument to human intellectual development . |
| 5 | For the Railway Jubilee in 1875 it was decided to remove the Fountain altogether , and South Park became its home where it stands today . |
| 6 | Although the wording of the Act suggests that it could be used in cases of abuse , it seems that there is such a general sense of unease about the law as it stands that some new and especially designed statute will be necessary for effective provision . |
| 7 | Since that can not be effectively done under the law as it stands , there must be created a new body of law of the sort that has come to be called administrative law . |
| 8 | But the comparison with the position of the citizen , on the law as it stands at present , is most unattractive . |
| 9 | We recommend that … there should be put on the statute book a ‘ definition ’ based on Lord Macnaghten 's classification , but preserving the case law as it stands . ’ |
| 10 | Nevertheless , local authorities may enforce the law as it stands . |
| 11 | Will he bear it in mind that the law as it stands does great injustice and that many women are suffering life sentences that they should not be suffering ? |
| 12 | The objective is to ensure that all employees accept their individual responsibilities within the context of the law as it stands at the time . |
| 13 | The most astonishing aspect of the case was not that she had an understandable desire to disport herself in space , but that under the law as it stands a major general had to offer her an abject apology for the recruiting sergeant showing a welcome piece of common sense . |
| 14 | I mean for instance on the question of identification after 45 years it 's very difficult , I saw that in the Demianuk trial , to get satisfactory er evidence , but of course er I think British rules of evidence probably would simply mean it was excluded if that was the case , and it was fairly done and the law were n't changed and it was the law as it stands er then I 'd be in favour of it . |
| 15 | Three cases , two from that other period of great division , the 1930s , set the tone for the law as it stood in 1979 . |
| 16 | ‘ There was nothing wrong with the law as it stood , but plenty wrong with those who abused it . |
| 17 | Although she was accused of backing down , Mrs Whitehouse firmly suggested that she had achieved what she set out to do , i.e. to show that certain acts could be defined as indecent within the parameters of the law as it stood . |
| 18 | These passages contain observations about the absence of a right of contribution between tortfeasors , but they relate to the law as it stood before 1935 . |
| 19 | Was it , was it a workable plan as it stood ? |
| 20 | The tuba can play the whole passage as it stands in the original ( in the bottom octave , of course ) . |
| 21 | The mill has been I do n't ken how long there 's been a mill on the site there but the mill as it stands at present 's been there from eighteen sixty . |
| 22 | Later we will revise the writing more stringently : pruning , shifting the weight , reordering , until every part holds every other part and it stands : it means what we want it to mean . |
| 23 | and it worked , and it got over to Australia , it got unpacked and it still worked when it got to Australia , and it went on the stand and it stood on the stand for a week or however long it was . |
| 24 | It 's four pound an hour and it stands . |
| 25 | In the meantime , the horse was delivered to Dunure Mains where it stood as stud stallion . |
| 26 | Can I just put the point that it stands at the moment . |
| 27 | What I intend to deal with is the record as it stands because anybody who 's going to argue a case against the decline of of any kind of system has to put the facts as they are , not as they would wish them to be , and I would argue that the legacy , before we can do that , the legacy which we inherited as a controlling group back in 1990 , is now a matter of record I would accept . |
| 28 | Any program that receives favourable reviews from enough teachers should be considered for — distribution as it stands but on a national basis — production to a professional standard — transferability to other microcomputers — publication by national system — publication by commercial publishers . |
| 29 | The British , perhaps sensitive to intense American lobbying over the issue , want to adopt the directive as it stands . |
| 30 | John Breaux , a Louisiana senator who also sits on the Finance Committee , is too close to the president and the treasury secretary , Lloyd Bentsen , to be as outspoken as Mr Boren , but he will not vote for the BTU tax as it stands , and prefers a straightforward petrol tax . |