Example sentences of "stand [adv prt] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not surprising then that the earliest women to enter politics did so as ‘ surrogate ’ males , to stand in for husbands or fathers ( see the case of Nancy , Lady Astor ) or that no ‘ monstrous regiment ’ of women was waiting to overwhelm men in the battle for parliamentary seats . |
| 2 | As a result there are now Government , as well as private consumer organizations , whose purpose is to stand up for consumers ' rights . |
| 3 | Rising from a high crag above the fertile Cheshire Plain , Beeston Castle stands out for miles around , drawing you like a magnet from afar . |
| 4 | Control said all that was just fine , and to stand by for instructions . |
| 5 | All of this finally resulted in ’ Maus ’ , his book-length comic strip version of the Holocaust in which pigs stand in for Nazis and mice for Jews . |
| 6 | Optionally — if you 're feeling mean — the carriage will animate and attack the adventurers if they just stand around for ages wondering what to do next . |
| 7 | In many cases deputy heads of schools will stand in for heads who are absent or where there is a vacancy . |
| 8 | If Americans did n't stand up for Americans , why should Greeks stand up for … ? |
| 9 | Standing up for koi : well-fed fish leave tadpoles in peace |
| 10 | Standing up for pensioners has rarely been popular except among pensioners . |
| 11 | A sedentary existence or a job that keeps you standing around for hours is liable to encourage a poor circulation as well as allowing the buttock and thigh muscles to become weak and flabby , making cellulite much worse . |
| 12 | Thus , while Corporal Weatherall and a growing force of commandos were on interminable training exercises , or standing by for operations that were cancelled before they got afloat , very few slipped the mesh of authority . |
| 13 | We can imagine them standing by for orders to levy and equip soldiers from among their lords ' tenants when the king summoned his tenants-in-chief to furnish them . |
| 14 | He did not understand my right hon. Friend 's point about how the Government have stood up for consumers by introducing competition and the right kind of legislation . |
| 15 | Live snakes stood in for ropes , constricting viciously . |
| 16 | In a discussion with Jenny Ball , we talked about those women teachers who stood up for women 's rights . |