Example sentences of "stand for the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | John Taylor says he thought long and hard before deciding not to stand for the Conservatives in Cheltenham again . |
| 5 | This has come about because southern politics were so dominated by the Democratic party in the century after the Civil War that many of its Senators and Representatives faced sterner re-election contests in the Primary elections within their own party ( i.e. for the right to stand for the Democrats again ) than they did against the Republicans in the election itself . |
| 6 | Ideas , according to Berkeley , are particulars whose significance is explained by saying that they stand for the things they represent . |
| 7 | It would obviously be the worst of craftsmanship to score the first four bars as they stand for the violins and viola and at the fifth bar to weaken one of the parts by division . |
| 8 | We were talking about the National Executive Committee and she was thinking of standing for the women 's section . |
| 9 | Pigs stood for the figures that lounge in the shaded wood of Manet 's Dejeuner sur l'Herbe and Whistler 's mother was transformed into a black cow . |
| 10 | Pigs stood for the figures that lounge in the shaded wood of Manet 's Dejeuner sur l'Herbe and Whistler 's mother was transformed into a black cow . |
| 11 | Although only twenty-two houses were represented the syndicat recognised that it stood for the rights of some sixty Champagne houses , virtually the entire trade at the time . |