Example sentences of "[noun sg] stood for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Told to an outsider , the history of a lineage stood for the history of the tribe . |
| 2 | The headless trunk stood for a long second , the blood fountaining in a gush of scarlet from the raw stump of its neck , before collapsing bonelessly to the mat . |
| 3 | The decapitated head spun like a ball in the air , lips still moving ; his trunk stood for a few seconds in its own fountain of hot red gore before crashing on to the blood-stained ice . |
| 4 | Each flag stood for an ‘ incident ’ , green for Moslem-inspired ones , red for those initiated by Copts . |
| 5 | The Lad stood for a moment , his hands caressing the formless thing . |
| 6 | Breeze stood for a moment , listening to its savage , eternal music , watching the grey-green water swirling round the half-submerged rocks . |
| 7 | With increases in rates paid by the tenant , the people were ‘ awakening to the fact that the Alliance stood for a saner and wiser administration of public affairs ’ . |
| 8 | ( This is how the story is recorded in Luke 13:6–9 , where the fig tree stood for the self-righteous people , such as the Pharisees , who made a great show of their religion but produced few results . |
| 9 | Ultimately , there might have been differences between them in what enlargement meant , but the point is that higher education stood for an overriding and widening development of the mind . |
| 10 | The young man stood for a moment on an overhanging ledge of the bank , looking down at the water ; the dog swam round and round below ; the man 's body was flecked all over with light and the shadow patterns of leaves , so that he seemed some human extension of the place . |
| 11 | In my case , the first and most important candle stood for the dark forest . |
| 12 | Another candle stood for the trivium , the place where three roads meet . |
| 13 | The Polish Parliament stood for a minute 's silence after approving unanimously a resolution which accused the Romanian authorities of ‘ exceptional brutality ’ leading to children being shot at and expressed solidarity with the ‘ victims of terror . ’ |
| 14 | Probably the cross stood for the sun . |
| 15 | Mr Wolfgang Berghofer , the 46-year-old mayor of Dresden who had been tipped to become the new party chief , said yesterday that he and a renewed party stood for a break with Stalinism and instead wanted socialism with a human face . |
| 16 | In the theatre , a single chariot-wheel propelled across the stage stood for a whole army : in the film version , you have horses , chariots , contending extras . |
| 17 | K. Peacock , of Belgrave Terrace , Hurworth Place , Darlington , remembers the whole class stood for a few minutes ' silence when told the news at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School . |