Example sentences of "stand to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each of the two principal actors glimpses his double in passing , as a reflection in a glass , and each stands to the other in the same relation — a relation which presupposes , as in many other Gothic texts , some sort of metempsychosis or rebirth . |
| 2 | ULSTER 'S bird and marine life stands to be seriously diminished by new plans to develop areas around its estuaries , environmentalists were told yesterday . |
| 3 | Not only the housing market stands to be hit but also retailing . |
| 4 | Built of stone rubble faced with ashlar ( stone dressed to a smooth finish ) and Roman tiles , the original polygonal tower may have been 80 feet high , but it had fallen into ruin by medieval times and was partly rebuilt , probably in the reign of Henry V. It still stands to a height of 40 feet , however , and we can see the original windows which were tiny on the outside walls to prevent draughts interfering with the flames of the beacon at the top . |
| 5 | It was replaced in 1806 by John Matson 's new lighthouse a short distance away , but still stands to its original four-storey height and is the only complete coal-burning lighthouse left in the country . |
| 6 | In the churchyard of All Saints , a monument stands to the men killed during the construction of the nearby Bramhope railway tunnel in 1845–9 . |
| 7 | On the mantelpiece a Victorian whirligig soldier stands to attention — originally he would have been used to scare away birds in the garden . |
| 8 | In 1921 he scored 212 not out for the Ridley College XI against Hamilton CC to establish a schoolboy batting record for Canadian cricket which stands to this day . |
| 9 | The little dumpling stands to attention with its arms stiffly by its sides , as if being told off by a parent ; the shroud appears to be a shift with separate head-cloth but in actuality is nothing more than the usual loosely gathered linen , parted with greater than usual emphasis to show the entire face . |
| 10 | Its massive cyclopean ring of masonry still stands to a height of 3 metres . |
| 11 | If one is ambivalent , conflicted , uncertain , confused , unwilling to make wholesale rejections , one stands to be accused , whether by oneself or by others , of bad faith , of lack of courage , of ‘ selling out ’ , of tokenism . |
| 12 | By day or by night , when its lights so insolently interrupt what ought to be the dark solitude of the mountains , this extension of Saint-Lary is an offence ; only when the weather closes in , and the clouds hang low , returning the high ledge on which it stands to a very satisfactory invisibility , is the valley 's honour temporarily saved . |
| 13 | As a hypothesis one may entertain the idea that the Japanese variant of East Asian enterprise represents a form of organization which stands to earlier bureaucratic forms of organization as does the postmodern to the modern . |
| 14 | It stands to attention , striking the air with a knowing finger . |
| 15 | The modelling of the Gorgon 's face resembles that of the Dipylon head ( fig. 15 ) , and she stands to her perhaps slightly later sister of Corfu very much as that stands to the Delphi twins ( fig. 16 ) : the Attic works have perhaps less charm but more power . |
| 16 | The modelling of the Gorgon 's face resembles that of the Dipylon head ( fig. 15 ) , and she stands to her perhaps slightly later sister of Corfu very much as that stands to the Delphi twins ( fig. 16 ) : the Attic works have perhaps less charm but more power . |
| 17 | We have no bronze original which stands to the Hestia as the Zeus to the Apollo . |
| 18 | The rate of change makes it shudder on the branches of the trees where it stands to attention in its sterile , tightly packed commercial rows . |
| 19 | The Emperor Henry V stands to Calixtus 's left . |
| 20 | Most importantly of all , one of a pair of cones erected at Catcliffe in 1740 still stands to its full height . |
| 21 | Yet lexical access stands in the same relation to these levels as the acoustic front end stands to lexical access . |
| 22 | right the royal personage stands to one side and smiles so you know we could could come in for this . |
| 23 | Orders came to the guardroom to stand to ; priority telegrams recalled those on leave ; station defences were considerably strengthened ; living-out people were hastily brought back , and nobody could leave the camp . |
| 24 | To his disappointment his old guv'nor took no notice at all , but , when the war was over , he was seen and overheard to draw Addison aside in the saleroom , saying : ‘ By the way , Addison , when you are in the army and you see an officer approaching on his horse , the correct thing is to stand to attention and salute , not jump about shouting ‘ aye , aye , sir ! ’ |
| 25 | Even in anger , it was rich and deep — with a tone of natural authority that made the policeman behind her tense involuntarily , as if he had to fight an urge to stand to attention . |
| 26 | Whilst I stand to be corrected , it may well have been this greasy property which made the finish dry out with a khaki tone . |
| 27 | ‘ Do n't you but me , and stand to attention when you address an Officer . |
| 28 | ‘ March in , stand to attention and salute . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , just around the corner and at the same time , Christie 's South Kensington offers ‘ Lot 78 , a 78 rpm gramophone re cord of Titanic , ‘ Stand to Your Post ’ , and ‘ Be British ’ , under £100 ’ or ‘ 1912 Titanic postcard , personally autographed by four survivors , £100/120 ’ . |
| 30 | The guide should have made us all stand to attention and salute . |