Example sentences of "[noun sg] stand [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | One reason there is so little change in most traditional bureaucratic organizations , I argue , is that they have conditioned out of people the willingness to stand up for a new idea . |
| 2 | Aldergrove stands by for big take-off |
| 3 | Rights are a central issue in being assertive ( see page 8 ) , since a decision to be assertive , as opposed to aggressive or submissive , is in effect a decision to stand up for your rights in a way that respects other people 's rights . |
| 4 | Every social worker has a responsibility to stand up for their own profession , to accept criticism humbly when it is due , and to explain why things are done in certain ways . |
| 5 | Frank 's inability to stand up for himself was brought home to us by Mazzin 's relationship with him . |
| 6 | In fact , the whole instrument stands up for itself without relying on those industry stalwarts for support in any way , which makes a very refreshing change . |
| 7 | I will be true despite thy scythe and thee ’ ) , in Sonnet 116 the Friend seems to have receded into the background while the poet stands up for all men ; Although the poet 's love is included in the affirmation , I would agree with Ingram and Redpath in seeing the poem rather as ‘ a meditative attempt to define perfect love ’ . |
| 8 | Would you and Karen mind standing in for me for a while ? ’ |
| 9 | At a time when the recession continues to take its toll on the profitability and performance of most high street retailers , one sector stands out for its growing success : The quick-service restaurant sector . |
| 10 | ‘ That 's the spirit , ’ said Joe , ‘ I like to hear a girl standing up for herself . |
| 11 | One admires the results as one might standing back for a painted landscape , yet I miss the sensation of really ‘ being there ’ . |
| 12 | The government found itself derided for its failure to stand up for Serbia , assert Russian interests in the Straits — the focal point of nationalist aspiration — and face the confrontation between Slav and Teuton which was widely thought to be inevitable . |
| 13 | At least education has given people confidence to stand up for their own rights ’ . |
| 14 | True grit … the council 's gritting team stands by for action |
| 15 | Mr Grosz was the only senior politician yesterday with the courage to stand up for Communism in front of a hostile audience . |
| 16 | Talb 's record stands out for attention , even if evidence of direct involvement in the PanAm bombing for the moment appears to be largely circumstantial . |
| 17 | ( They disport themselves to accommodate the next piece of mime , which consists of the PLAYER himself exhibiting an excitable anguish ( choreographed , stylized ) leading to an impassioned scene with the QUEEN ( cf. " The Closet Scene " , Shakespeare Act III , scene iv ) and a very stylized reconstruction of a POLONIUS figure being stabbed behind the arras ( the murdered KING to stand in for POLONIUS ) while the PLAYER himself continues his breathless commentary for the benefit of ROS and GUIL . ) |
| 18 | In Roman art or in an 18th century Temple of Worthies ( such as the one at Stowe ) the rules of rhetoric might be invoked to argue that the bust functions as synecdoche , the head standing in for the whole physical and active domain of the body . |
| 19 | THE airpass holder who whinged to the Dallas check-in clerk that she had spent all day standing by for a flight out of one of America 's less attractive airports was gently chastised . |
| 20 | His art emerges as the product of the extreme poverty of his early years when sex was cheaper than food and where the circus stood in for the corrida . |
| 21 | Storry stands in for Mantle |
| 22 | Condensation might entail the one kind of subject and/or manifestation standing in for the whole domain of evil , incurring responsibility for the whole in the process of being made to signify it . |
| 23 | His group was a homespun affair and he wanted to support people inspired solely by the love of writing and music , and with the verve to stand up for themselves in print . |
| 24 | ‘ She had not the spirit to stand up for her own mother . |
| 25 | Why was Finn standing up for her , quixotically acting her champion like this ? |
| 26 | When this goon is at the point of his beat furthest away from our stretch of wire , the Wing Commander will give the signal to Clinker here — ’ a dark beetle-like man stood up for a moment and sat down again , ‘ — who will fuse the entire lighting system of the camp including the searchlights . ’ |
| 27 | Therefore , we could spotlight that here was a writer standing up for his rights . ’ |
| 28 | While making this last scene , the stuntman standing in for Robert Wagner — playing McQueen 's co-pilot-was killed while making the jump . |
| 29 | The passion she had tried to feel for feminism was not enough , it did not give her enough strength to stand up for herself against the demands of these two women who wanted her , needed her and demanded her . |
| 30 | Campra stands out for keeping his airs relatively short , and for the expressive weight and dramatic emphasis he placed on recitative . |