Example sentences of "stand for [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But those who believe in the monarchy like to think it stands for stability and good example . |
| 2 | At first sight this might not seem to be a serious problem ; one thing stands for others if it is used or taken as representing them . |
| 3 | Remember the bit in Citizen Kane when Orson Welles stands for election as congressman , but is felled by a ‘ Kane in Love Nest ’ scandal ? |
| 4 | If the pedestal stands for fixity and place , what does the frame represent ? does embroidery/stitch , void of the frame , also become a malleable term , extended to include ‘ just about anything ’ , autonomous and self-referential ? |
| 5 | For example , Q stands for Science and QA for Mathematics , a subclass of Science . |
| 6 | The T. and T. of its title stands for Tyne and Thames . |
| 7 | These packs , despite their name , would not increase the Eagle 's speed ; the word stands for Fuel And Sensor Tactical , and they are really long-range extra fuel-tanks . |
| 8 | And CD-603 — the CD stands for Cheltenham and District — are confident , in the battle of the airwaves , they wo n't be the losers . |
| 9 | Indeed , Eleanor Rathbone condemned what she viewed as the selfishness of middle class women who , having got ‘ all they wanted for themselves out of the women 's movement when it gave them the vote , the right to stand for Parliament and the local authorities , and to enter the learned professions ’ , then sat back . |
| 10 | When in 1861 Louisa Twining proposed to a government Select Committee that women should be allowed to stand for election as Poor Law Guardians , she agreed that they should not interfere in the male province of finance and administration , and should not have any say over the treatment of male paupers . |
| 11 | ‘ We bought it in Paris and I had to stand for hours while they fitted me . |
| 12 | THE Yorkshire Post , which should know , says Glenda Jackson is seriously considering the offer of a nomination to stand for selection as Labour candidate in Leeds East in succession to Denis Healey . |
| 13 | His call for Strathclyde councillors to reject cuts and stand for re-election if the Scottish Office decided to cap the region 's budget was rejected by Labour . |
| 14 | The symbols M and F stand for males and females . |
| 15 | Or symbolically , if we let $ be the set of sentences in language L , C the set of possible contexts , P the set of propositions , and U the cartesian product of S x C — i.e. the set of possible combinations of members of S with members of C , and we let the corresponding lower case letters stand for elements or members of each of those sets ( i.e. s e S , c e C , p e P , u e U ) : ( 16 ) f(u) =p ( or:f ( s , c ) = p ) i.e. f is a function that assigns to utterances the propositions that express their full meaning in context Gazdar ( 1979a : 4-5 ) , on the other hand , wishes to capture the ways in which utterances change the context in which they are uttered ; he shows that Katz 's formulation is incompatible with that goal , and therefore suggests instead : ( 17 ) f(u) c ( or:f ( s , c ) c ) i.e. f is a function from utterances to contexts , namely the contexts brought about by each utterance ( or : f assigns to each sentence plus the context prior to its utterance , a second context caused by its utterance ) The idea here is that the shift from the context prior to an utterance to the context post utterance itself constitutes the communicational content of the utterance . |
| 16 | • steel , glass and titanium zinc ( RHEINZINK ) stand for openness and movement . |
| 17 | He stated that he would not stand for re-election as majority whip in the Senate , nor would he seek re-election to the Senate when his current term expired in 1992 . |
| 18 | A registered elector over the age of twenty-one may be a candidate if not disqualified , but in addition people may stand for election if they have occupied property , been resident or had their main place of work in the area for at least twelve months . |
| 19 | As a concise and precise international language like that longed for by the natural philosophers of the seventeenth century , where symbols would stand for things and not words , engineering drawing was valuable in opening machinery to scientific study . |
| 20 | He thought that the L could stand for Larksoken and that the Whistler might be making some kind of statement about nuclear power , a protest perhaps . ’ |
| 21 | Most full-time political representatives in Cuba are men , with very few women standing for election and even fewer succeeding . |
| 22 | It is only because Bryan Gould is standing for leader that the soft left of the Labour Party has found a voice . |
| 23 | For such people any contact with the Court would have been the ultimate in defilement — though it should be noted that some of the husbands showed less scruple in accepting governmental places , even to the extent of standing for elections and taking the oath of loyalty to the Emperor and the Constitution . |
| 24 | The two lions , as well as standing for strength and power , signified the Gemini twins , while the unicorn with a golden arrow for a horn symbolised the Sagittarian archer and happiness . ’ |
| 25 | These two elements of temporal symbolism , the object standing for time and time controlling what the object stands for , come together in the realm of fashion . |
| 26 | They had stood for election as Social Democratic ( SHP ) candidates in the October 1991 general election [ see p. 38547 ] . |
| 27 | Sebastian Coe ( he gives Sheffield a bad name — he stood for Parliament because he could n't run for toffee ) |
| 28 | It was ancient conservatism dressed up in nineteenth century costume and , incidentally , hard to combine with that other biological image of the century which stood for change and progress , namely ‘ evolution ’ . |
| 29 | The papers bristled with tributes to ‘ a man who stood for tradition and dignity in a business that has recently been rocked by scandal and corruption ’ . |
| 30 | And then we stood for ages while streams of cars whirred rhythmically past . |