Example sentences of "[pron] stand for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The measure was termed the I-measure ( where I stands for intensity ) . |
| 2 | At the previous election I stood for election to a United Kingdom Parliament , as did the hon. Gentleman . |
| 3 | In nineteen sixty six I stood for election of the national organizer and was successful and joined the head office in Glasgow in May nineteen sixty six . |
| 4 | The opposite bank — which stands for success — seems very near but between where we stand and the opposite bank there is a ravine which is going to absorb a great deal of money . |
| 5 | However , the machine has a basic memory of only 128K , a not-very-standard keyboard and screen , no disk drive , and an operating system called DOS , which stands for DIP Operating System , after the machine 's British designers . |
| 6 | To help you keep in mind the five main techniques we have invented a mnemonic , MACRO , which stands for Memory , Aims , Concentration , Review and Organisation . |
| 7 | The idea is called LETS , which stands for Local Exchange and Trading Systems , and apparently there is a group of about 30 people in Belfast already working the idea . |
| 8 | The function of LOEX ( which stands for Library Orientation and Instruction Exchange ) is as follows : |
| 9 | It bears the initials R.P. 1604 , which stand for Ralph Piggot , whose family arrived in the parish at about this time . |
| 10 | A more stylish and dramatic return to English tradition came about through the Arts and Crafts Movement , which stood for integrity and truthfulness and believed whole-heartedly in the use of local craftsmen and materials . |
| 11 | It was ancient conservatism dressed up in nineteenth century costume and , incidentally , hard to combine with that other biological image of the century which stood for change and progress , namely ‘ evolution ’ . |
| 12 | You stand for hours , without a girdle , because of block bookings and not enough chairs . |
| 13 | erm One of the reasons is that , unlike the British situation , you do n't have to resign if you stand for election as a Member of Parliament in France . |
| 14 | IRRESPECTIVE of what political views they hold , those who stand for election in Northern Ireland require a lot of courage and conviction . |
| 15 | She stood for Parliament , unsuccessfully , as a pacifist Labour candidate in the general election of 1918 , and was appointed as an alderman to Battersea borough council in 1920 . |
| 16 | She stood for hours behind him , seeing him sketch , then stop and change what he had drawn . |
| 17 | If the right hon. Gentleman wants to swap quotes , perhaps he will listen to what Dr. David Colin Thorne , a Labour party member who stood for Parliament , said on fundholding . |
| 18 | The papers bristled with tributes to ‘ a man who stood for tradition and dignity in a business that has recently been rocked by scandal and corruption ’ . |
| 19 | Hilda Bernstein , the wife of one of those on trial , wrote : ‘ The Rivonia trial was a confrontation in which the opposing forces in South Africa appeared face to face ; those who stood for apartheid … and those who opposed it . |
| 20 | We stand for animal welfare , for animal protection , for compassion , for human responsibility to the other animals . |
| 21 | We stand for freedom of the individual . |
| 22 | We stand for peace . |
| 23 | We stand for solidarity between workers of all races and colours and we are opposed and must stop unscrupulous politicians and racist groups using the race issue to divide working people ! |
| 24 | The and their self-opinionated Premier , Jacques Delores , must be told clearly that we stand for co-operation of Western style democracy , not the old Eastern block style of all encompassing socialist state with the dead hand of Brussels directing policies , as Moscow did with the U S S R. Freedom of the independent nation and people must confer . |
| 25 | We stand for people before property ’ ( Election leaflet 1920 ) . |
| 26 | and William III as central characters — Cry Treason ( 1940 ) , We Stood For Freedom ( 1941 ) , and The Mighty Years ( 1943 ) — were widely acclaimed as being among the best historical novels of their time . |
| 27 | While we stood for election alongside the men , a decision taken in July by Labour MPs to bring more women into prominent positions in the party ensured that at least three women would be elected . |
| 28 | And then we stood for ages while streams of cars whirred rhythmically past . |
| 29 | They also accused Cafiero of seeking to keep himself in office by introducing a clause allowing him to stand for re-election in the 1991 gubernatorial elections . |
| 30 | People who say they stand for animal protection , for compassion , for human responsibility towards the other animals , speak well and truly , as far as these descriptions go . |