Sentence examples for standby this from inspiring English sources

Hundreds of employees at big firms, some part of special teams, will be on standby this Sunday, awaiting the results of Greece's pivotal election.

Ian Manders Combined Heat & Power Association It is a good educational effort, but surely Guardian readers are not all airheads that need to be told not to leave equipment on standby (This is the front line, G2, 1 December).

Two coal power plants will be paid a combined £77m to be on standby this winter as part of National Grid's plan to minimise the risk of electricity blackouts.

Extra ambulance staff are on standby this New Year's Eve after paramedics saw numbers of callouts increase during this Christmas compared with last year.

I standby this response, because there really is something for everyone.

Then came another standby ticket, this time to New York, where he showed up with $60 in his pocket and slept on Central Park benches before settling at a shelter at St. Marks Place.

Meanwhile the former Leyton Orient owner Barry Hearn, another standby in this tale of cock-up and conspiracy, said his dog could have negotiated a better deal for the taxpayer.

Since the communication duration is negligibly low in comparison to the standby duration, this only leads to a minor error in the current drain calculation, and real values will be lower.

Cosmonauts Salizhan Sharipov and Pavel Vinogradov were originally scheduled to have been on standby for this mission, with Talgat Musabayev and Yuri Baturin, the crew who eventually flew TM-32 to the International Space Station, as the backup crew.

They have to cordon off the roads, bring in extra resources, two ambulance teams turn up, the fire service are put on standby In this ambulance, another [Monkey Dust user who] feels no pain.

The provincial investigator coping with a major crime is a Scandi-standby, but this is a particularly small town (population: 1,200) and a single act of foul play spreads like ice on a windscreen into human trafficking, municipal corruption, Chinese property investment and a prologue involving sex and arson.