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 | 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 . |
| 5 | The trouble started with the decision of his wife , Semra , to stand for the powerful job of head of the Motherland Party in Istanbul . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So I had stood for a little while on the bridge and saluted as the ship went down after all . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I began to wonder what was happening when we stood for a long time at Birmingham New Street . |
| 15 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
| 16 | They stood for a long time in silence , and the others left them alone . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | When Martha had gone as well , Tim picked up the whisky he had poured earlier and stood for a long time in the hallway . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Her fragmentation into little states , split between Protestantism and Catholicism , has been exacerbated by a split between those who wanted Western or Eastern orientation : the West , represented by the rationalism and domination of France , the liberalism and mercantilism of England , or the modernism of the United States , stood for the individual standing in a contractual relationship to society , nation-statehood and world political power ; while the East , represented by Russia and Asia beyond implied culture , tradition , anti-modernism , barbarity , community and political romanticism . |