Example sentences of "stand for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( FIMBRA stands for Financial Intermediaries , Managers and Brokers Regulatory Association . ) |
| 2 | NB IT STANDS FOR NEW BANDS |
| 3 | NB IT STANDS FOR NEW BANDS |
| 4 | This stands for Cooperative Awards in Science and Engineering and erm under this scheme , a company erm can have a problem tackled by a research student working in a university and erm a supervisor , and indeed in this case , the input , the financial input , by the company may be quite small , may only amount to a few hundred pounds . |
| 5 | Rosenthal has selected just three artists to stand for new developments in the Nineties : Jeff Koons , Robert Gober and Mike Kelly . |
| 6 | The evidence is that since the thirties women have begun to stand for political positions in their own right but progress has been slow . |
| 7 | The Cartesian answer would be that they all stand for various kinds of mental activity , a distinguishing mark of the mental being that it is not extended in space like the other substance of Descartes 's dualism , matter . |
| 8 | Besides , this putting together of two letters which also stand for other sounds inevitably causes ambiguities — bishop and mishap — while the letters th actually have two different digraphic uses as well as their separate values , as seen in the sentence ‘ Thy thigh is waist-high . ’ |
| 9 | The colours stand for different things : Guyana 's green land , its mineral resources , the country 's rivers , the energy of the people as they build the nation 's riches and their persistence in doing this task . |
| 10 | Get up slowly , do n't stand for long periods and if you feel faint , take some deep , rapid breaths . |
| 11 | We find it useful to have someone available as a stock figure to represent or stand for certain kinds of person . |
| 12 | If you notice a particular position that causes discomfort or pain , such as sitting or standing for long periods , then you do as Alexander did and use a mirror to help you detect the source of your problem . |
| 13 | It might seem that it would , because it might seem very natural to think that one red thing or image might be taken as standing for red things in general because of its natural resemblance to the other members of the class , this constituting the most fundamental sort of association . |
| 14 | They have their own demands but they are an integral part of the liberation struggle , which , right from the start , has stood for equal rights for men and women . |
| 15 | Cash 's liberalism only extends so far — he has always stood for old-fashioned values like God , country and being handy in a knife fight . |
| 16 | Britain stood for political ideals that must prevail if western civilization were not to break down ; Britain could carry the torch of freedom , truth , toleration and peace . |
| 17 | People asked her , significantly in that suffragette period , if the initials stood for New Women 's Movement . |
| 18 | He was satisfied to leave the government of Sicily largely to the chancellor , Gauthier de Paléar , bishop of Troja , who stood for Sicilian rights and was anti-German . |
| 19 | The enemy stood for different things and must be defeated . |