Example sentences of "stand [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ICMS stands for Integrated Crop Management Systems and , unless you are involved in produce growing , it is an expression you have probably never heard . |
| 2 | ‘ Adam & Eve ’ stands for Automated Document Analysis and Manipulation & Extensible Variety of Exercises . |
| 3 | ( FIMBRA stands for Financial Intermediaries , Managers and Brokers Regulatory Association . ) |
| 4 | H. This stands for historic pricing and indicates that unless there has been an intervening revaluation investors may deal at the prices quoted in the newspaper on that day ( which were set at the closing levels of the previous day ) . |
| 5 | F. This stands for forward pricing and indicates that investors can be given no firm price before the transaction takes place . |
| 6 | Prosamo ( which stands for planned release of selected and modified organisms ) is sponsoring a wide range of studies on the behaviour of genetically engineered organisms in the environment . |
| 7 | It often refers to any individual member organization irrespective of its actual name , i.e. whether it is an association or federation or whether it stands for Planned Parenthood , Family Well-being , Responsible Parenthood , Protection of the Family or Family Health , etc . |
| 8 | ‘ It stands for New Kentucky . ’ |
| 9 | NB IT STANDS FOR NEW BANDS |
| 10 | NB IT STANDS FOR NEW BANDS |
| 11 | He also quipped that , since NT stands for New Technology , ‘ we will will have to change that when it 's a few years old . ’ |
| 12 | He also quipped that , since NT stands for New Technology , ‘ we will will have to change that when it 's a few years old . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The International Atomic Energy Agency of the United Nations organises the Intor workshops ( Intor stands for International Tokamak Reactor ) although most of the work is actually carried out by groups working in their various home laboratories . |
| 15 | CNAPS stands for Connected Network of Adaptive ProcessorS , pointing to the fact that the system applies neural network technology , although as neural networks are less fashionable than parallel systems at the moment , the company is describing it as the lowest priced massively parallel system on the market . |
| 16 | CNAPS stands for Connected Network of Adaptive ProcessorS , pointing to the fact that the system applies neural network technology , although as neural networks are less fashionable than parallel systems at the moment , the company is describing it as the lowest priced massively parallel system on the market . |
| 17 | In addition to the known central features at the systemic velocity of the galaxy ( corresponding to the velocity of its centre ) , there are strong redshifted features with intensities of about one-half or one-third of the main features at ( where LSR stands for local standard of rest ) and weak blueshifted features with intensities of about one-tenth at — 300 to -460kms -1 . |
| 18 | In the Friday workouts , ‘ q ’ stands for quick pace and ‘ e ’ stands for easy . |
| 19 | It can be shown that for large samples the statistic , called the likelihood ratio test statistic , is distributed as a chi-square variate with g degrees of freedom where , as before , g is the number of restrictions and ‘ log ’ stands for natural logarithm . |
| 20 | SQL , which stands for structured query language , is a calculus-based language used on a number of database systems , for example , DB2 and Oracle . |
| 21 | RACE stands for rapid amplification of cDNA ends . |
| 22 | CAT stands for cysteic acid treatment , a type of protein to help repair and protect damaged hair . |
| 23 | With provocation we look at the " what if " and suppose " and go even beyond these with " po " the new word I coined elsewhere to allow deliberate provocation ( it stands for provocative Operation ) . |
| 24 | AIDS stands for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome . |
| 25 | MISS Whiplash yesterday announced in a letter she was returning to Britain to stand as Corrective Party candidate in the Newbury by-election . |
| 26 | A former Birmingham police officer , Finnegan was set to stand as Tory candidate for Stockton South at the 1983 general election but withdrew when it was disclosed he had been a National Front organiser . |
| 27 | Mr Finnegan was to stand as Tory candidate for Stockton South at the 1983 general election but withdrew when it was disclosed he had been a member of an extreme right-wing party . |
| 28 | In contemporary terms , therefore , his diagnoses were too inexact to stand as definitive evidence for ( or against ) a connection between creativity and madness , as we would now construe it . |
| 29 | Rosenthal has selected just three artists to stand for new developments in the Nineties : Jeff Koons , Robert Gober and Mike Kelly . |
| 30 | Femininity is painted as a deviant , mysterious , finally unknowable object of investigation , and the ‘ riddle ’ of it ( Freud 1933 : 113 ) comes to stand for unconscious sexuality as a whole . |