Example sentences of "stood as a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Against the backcloth of conventional Victorian prudery , the writer and publisher Mary Wilson stood as a champion for women 's sexual liberation . |
2 | For diverse and often disparate groupings , the language of scientificity stood as a metaphor and a referent , which condensed specific anxieties and signified different solutions to different people . |
3 | He served in the RAF for five years and stood as a candidate in the 1984 Euro elections and in the 1987 general election . |
4 | This confident 31-year-old financial advisor was a leading Young Conservative and stood as a candidate for Tynebridge in the 1987 election . |
5 | This city was the ancient Inca capital , and throughout Peru 's colonial period ( 1533-1824 ) it stood as a symbol of regional and ethnic opposition to Spanish rule from Lima . |
6 | Harry put in 410 League appearances for Crystal Palace and that stood as a record for over 30 years until it was overtaken by Terry Long in the late 1960s . |
7 | Indeed the 1974 level of output stood as a record until 1988 ! |
8 | The late 1970s ' level of manufacturing investment stood as a record until 1987 . |
9 | At the end of my final year I stood as a sabbatical officer for the Union . |
10 | Framed in the doorway Jack stood as a figure of authority , a heroic figure , it was like the return of Odysseus , as Franca said later to Ludens . |
11 | Here , there was no ambiguity ; no difficulty over marriage or courtship ; no women at all but the camp-followers , or the whores who were for sale , with other merchandise , from the second , vagabond camp that stood as a fringe to the first . |
12 | as if the children had n't heard her or were not aware of her presence , they all ran back towards the side of the house , and there they stood as a group , staring at the man with the short legs and the girl with hair that looked almost white , walking towards their mother . |
13 | While other workers have published careful studies showing modest , often transitory , benefits of training for IQ , Heber 's projects stood as a beacon of hope for dramatic and lasting benefits , and also as the defence against those who say that IQ has proved disappointingly hard to budge . |
14 | Laura would have approved of their aims , which almost a century later , stood as a beacon for her own philosophy ; they were ‘ to protest against the introduction of any fashion in dress that either deforms the body , impedes movement or injures health … and to promote the adoption according to individual taste and convenience of a style of dress based upon considerations of health , comfort and beauty and to deprecate the constant changes of fashion that can not be recommended on any of these grounds . ’ |