Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [subord] it stand " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is far better to follow the analysis of Riccobono ( who was not by any means a radical interpolationist ) and admit that the text as it stands is not how Ulpian left it . |
| 2 | ‘ If Chelsea were to proceed with the ground-share as it stands , the legal position of the development would be in doubt . ’ |
| 3 | Long and low , with transept towers and a vaulted nave , the building as it stands today was largely the work of Bishop Grandison of Exeter , a ‘ magnificent and diligent prelate ’ who ruled over the diocese in the fourteenth century . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Three cases , two from that other period of great division , the 1930s , set the tone for the law as it stood in 1979 . |
| 7 | ‘ There was nothing wrong with the law as it stood , but plenty wrong with those who abused it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But the comparison with the position of the citizen , on the law as it stands at present , is most unattractive . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , local authorities may enforce the law as it stands . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | The objective is to ensure that all employees accept their individual responsibilities within the context of the law as it stands at the time . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The British , perhaps sensitive to intense American lobbying over the issue , want to adopt the directive as it stands . |
| 19 | Zimerman 's , in particular , provides a memorably crystalline and trenchant communication of the score as it stands and his recording is surely among the most nobly austere , powerful and unadorned . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This practice was only varied if there was some known defect in the title , and if that was so , one could expect to find a special condition on the contract , indicating that the buyer would take the title as it stood , and would not raise requisitions after contracts were exchanged . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , we have to concede that the evidence as it stands can not be conclusive . |
| 23 | ‘ Specially Chosen Music ’ refers to particular pieces of music that have inspired a choreographer and whose score has been interpreted by the choreographer as it stands , the composer 's scheme and continuity unchanged . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , even taking the argument as it stands , there does not seem to be much evidence to support it . |
| 25 | The Col d'Aubisque is high , at 5,600 feet , and the views that you have from it are sumptuous , both back the way you have come , and now to the east as well , across to the prominent peak of the Pic du Midi de Bigorre , once thought to be the highest in the chain because it stands rather apart and closer to the plain , and before people took to actually measuring altitudes , the nearest peaks were mistaken for the tallest . |
| 26 | We are within the Constitution as it stands , nothing illegal is going on and we claim the right to be treated as democratic citizens assembling as we are free to do . |
| 27 | The only issue that I think we have some er difficulty with in the policy as it stands at the moment , is the uncertainty that arises between the figure provided in policy I five of forty six hectares for the city , and actually our agreed calculation which I think the County Council accept , that site availability in the city is limited to something in the order of thirty three hectares if we exclude er one site which is subject to a dispute between parties er in relation to the greenbelt . |
| 28 | There was fierce US Congressional criticism of the loan as it stood , and this did not begin to lessen until concern at worsening relations with the USSR brought a change of agenda and priorities . |
| 29 | This calls for an act of the imagination , in foreseeing the ways in which the enquiry is likely to develop , the types of information necessary , the reading ages and levels of attainment of the students in relation to what is currently available , and the weaknesses of the collection as it stands in relation to this analysis . |
| 30 | Haycocks III met with a mixed response so that although there was a general welcome for the appearance of the document , virtually all respondents were unhappy with the nature and content of the paper as it stood . |