Example sentences of "stand for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | — The altar with its twelve pillars ( verse 4 ) stands for the bringing of the whole people of God into his presence ( for there were twelve tribes of Israel ) . |
| 2 | RD stands for the index figure for the month in which the disposal occurs . |
| 3 | Ndembu say that the sapling 's pliancy stands for the girl 's immaturity and youth : the tree is sometimes stated to be the novice 's ‘ matrilineage ’ , and its leaves her ‘ children ’ . |
| 4 | At the mere mention of a coat , she sits , eyes closed , nose pointing upwards to have it slipped on , then stands for the belt to be fastened . |
| 5 | Remember that velocity stands for the ratio of total spending over a period of time to the stock of money available . |
| 6 | He gives the obvious explanation that Shakespeare has read Ovid on Salmacis , and spices it with the assurance that Adonis stands for the Earl of Southampton , whom he keeps calling Wriothesley . |
| 7 | The P stands for the land area on which the crop stands . |
| 8 | The revolutionary democracy of Russia stands for the indivisibility of the State . |
| 9 | As ‘ sacrament ’ it stands for the sacrifice of the cross through which we were brought near to God . |
| 10 | Peter stands for the Church under persecution . |
| 11 | Thus , for example , the Labour Party in Britain supposedly stands for the redistribution of wealth , the maintenance of a national health and social security system , considerable government intervention in the economy and so on . |
| 12 | She stands for the civilization of the South , of the Midi , the home of the troubadours , against the sterner , rougher , cruder world of the North , represented , in this image , by her husband , the King of the North Wind , whose authority she is subtly undermining and against whom she will soon break out in open rebellion . |
| 13 | In the following examples , the letter " n " stands for the number , or numbers in the answer set . |
| 14 | However if you were let in to the secret that x stands for the number 10 then you can work out this problem in the following way unc |
| 15 | The unique marble hall , which gave its name to the palace , was screened with boards that served as exhibition stands for the photographs , diagrams and models . |
| 16 | where IR stands for the Band 7 reading and R ( red ) for the Band 5 reading . |
| 17 | Our description of rod manufacture also stands for the tubes , except that there is a central bullet in the die to form the ultimate wall thickness . |
| 18 | RI stands for the figure shown in the retail price index for March 1982 or the month in which expenditure was incurred , whichever is the later . |
| 19 | The centre in this explanation should not , as Shils observes , be understood in a geometric sense or even in a geographical sense ; in fact , the term ‘ centre ’ stands for the value systems by which society is ordered and thus may have only the weakest of links with particular concrete manifestations of elite values in politics , economics , culture or other aspects of societal interaction . |
| 20 | It represents the logical conclusion to preceding buildings and is the expression of national culture ; it stands for the essence of Muscovite Christianity in Russia and was the last great church of the movement in this architectural form . |
| 21 | In that rich compendium of ethnographic treasures , Shakespeare 's Bawdy , Eric Partridge tells us that the word horn stands for the penis in an extramarital adventure , as in the ‘ horn of adultery ’ or ‘ horn-maker ’ ( causer of cuckoldry ) . |
| 22 | So Mt Sinai stands for the fulfilment of one half of the covenant promise of Exodus 6:7 : " I will take you for my people " . |
| 23 | One of Scotland 's more interesting ruins , Minto stands for the moment in unspoilt Scottish Borders scenery , which could never be ‘ replicated ’ in Japan . |
| 24 | As with the word ‘ church ’ , the synagogue came to stand for the building as well as the people meeting there . |
| 25 | Richard Brilliant has suggested that the bust involves a high degree of representative abstraction since the only the head and shoulders and upper part of the body are made to stand for the whole . |
| 26 | In reading Greenblatt it can too often seem that discussions of such selective parts of a play may appear to stand for the whole . |
| 27 | From the start , he was in conflict with the DUP 's leadership who tried to persuade him not to accept the local branch 's nomination to stand for the Assembly . |
| 28 | In Women and Psychology ( Williams 1979 ) , for instance , Ladner 's paper ‘ Growing up Black ’ , which describes the specific experiences of growing up in US cities in the 1960s , has to stand for the effects of both ‘ race ’ and class on gender . |
| 29 | John Taylor says he thought long and hard before deciding not to stand for the Conservatives in Cheltenham again . |
| 30 | After the South African War , he tried unsuccessfully to stand for the South African parliament before returning home to marry Lady Mary Douglas Hamilton . |