Example sentences of "stand for [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 If you are to be awkward then my mother will not know where she stands for a good deal of time . ’
2 In The Tempest verse again stands for a superior ethos in stark juxtaposition with prose .
3 Again he said , in an argument strangely reminiscent of Erastus , Richard Hooker and Matthew Arnold , that ‘ the State is more sacred than any Church … for the State stands for the whole people in their manifold collective life ; and any Church is but a fragment of that life , though one of the most important fragments ’ .
4 Hence began the campaign to enable the President to stand for a second term of office .
5 Two days before the speech ( i.e. on Aug. 14 ) a petition signed by a group of 58 human rights activists , academics and retired armed forces officers had called on Suharto not to stand for a sixth term as President in 1993 .
6 These cases suggest that when manufacture as the signified of the object , becomes reified as having a separate and particular connotation it is not the actual process of manufacture which is of importance , but the ability of the object to stand for a particular form of production and its attendant social relations .
7 Before dusk Holly and those who had arrived that day were taken to the Bath house to stand for a few moments beneath the trickle of lukewarm water .
8 Mustard should be allowed to stand for a few minutes after mixing and before serving to allow the flavour to develop , but mix little and often the flavour will be retained but the pungency will soon be lost .
9 Remove the meat from the pan and allow to stand for a few minutes before slicing .
10 Sprinkle the yeast over the water in a cup and leave to stand for a few minutes in a warm place before stirring to completely dissolve the yeast .
11 The trouble started with the decision of his wife , Semra , to stand for the powerful job of head of the Motherland Party in Istanbul .
12 And no obvious reason exists why meat , so long a symbol of human hegemony , should not , in time , come to stand for the unacceptable face of consumerism .
13 We stand for a few moments in each other 's arms , and I ask what we should do this evening .
14 Although the artefact may stand for a particular form of production , it can not be assumed that it will do so , or that the divisions which appear as significant from one perspective upon modern society will necessarily emerge as the major dimensions of differentiation in the object world .
15 It was the first time two West Indian batsmen had made a century stand for the sixth wicket in each innings of a Test and it took the game right away from England ; when the last wicket fell , Logie was left unbeaten on 95 , the score was 397 , and England had to survive for the best part of two days .
16 If output could be expanded up to the point unc where price equals marginal cost , there would be an extensive gain in social welfare , namely the shaded area. , Making the simplifying assumptions that there are no income effects and that any effects on the distribution of income are unimportant , this area may stand for the true change in social welfare .
17 On June 21 Kurt Waldheim , 72 , announced that he would not be standing for a second term as President in the elections due in 1992 .
18 We encountered this view at the beginning of this book , in the dialogues of Plato , where we found talk of ‘ the ascent to see the things in the upper world [ which ] you may take as standing for the upward journey into the region of the intelligible ’ .
19 The two trees : the phrase " good and evil " may well be a Hebrew idiom standing for the full range of moral knowledge represented by the two extremes .
20 The party chairman , Godfrey M'Mwereria , an environmentalist and former lecturer at Kenyatta University , said he would contest the forthcoming presidential elections , as well as standing for the parliamentary seat of Tigania in Meru district .
21 So I had stood for a little while on the bridge and saluted as the ship went down after all .
22 This had some claim to be the hotbed of British fascism in the 1920s owing to the fact that Leese and a colleague had successfully stood for the local council on a British fascist policy in 1924 .
23 I began to wonder what was happening when we stood for a long time at Birmingham New Street .
24 I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain .
25 They stood for a long time in silence , and the others left them alone .
26 When he had gone , she stood for a long time in front of the looking-glass that hung over the fire , her hands pressed to her cheeks , her face quite alive with excitement .
27 When Martha had gone as well , Tim picked up the whisky he had poured earlier and stood for a long time in the hallway .
28 There they stood for a long time by a low stone wall , staring hopelessly out at the yellow fields of stubble , where the wheatsheaves were stooked and ready for gathering into the barn .
29 Mark stood for a few moments at the corner of Parliament Street and Bridge Street .
30 They stood for a few moments in shy silence , staring from one to another .
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