Example sentences of "standing in [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Condensation might entail the one kind of subject and/or manifestation standing in for the whole domain of evil , incurring responsibility for the whole in the process of being made to signify it . |
| 2 | Simon had of ten seen him here , at this time of night , standing in for the owner , who had nipped across to the pub for a pie and a pint . |
| 3 | Manager Dick Graham immediately went back to his former club , West Bromwich Albion , and purchased Welsh International , Tony Millington to take over but , by the end of the year it was Jackson who was earning praise in the Palace goal after standing in for the injured Welshman and making his home debut against Cardiff on 28 November 1964 , and by the end of the season ‘ Jacko ’ , as he became popularly called , was in undisputed possession |
| 4 | Standing in for the injured Ian Smith , wicketkeeper Adam Parore took five catches in England 's first innings . |
| 5 | On 7 June an emergency meeting of the NSFU Executive was held at which Father Charles Hopkins , standing in for the absent Havelock Wilson , pointed out the disastrous financial effects which participation in such a stoppage might have on the union and the peril in which it might stand in respect of its hard won provincial settlements . |
| 6 | The chief academic and administrative officer of a Scottish university , he or she is usually styled ‘ principal and vice chancellor ’ , the latter title used when standing in for the chancellor on ceremonial occasions . |
| 7 | In Roman art or in an 18th century Temple of Worthies ( such as the one at Stowe ) the rules of rhetoric might be invoked to argue that the bust functions as synecdoche , the head standing in for the whole physical and active domain of the body . |
| 8 | The you so pointedly admonished is the addressee of the poem , Torquatus , a representative Roman , fictionally standing in for the reader at large . |
| 9 | He scored 218 runs , won the Man of the Match award and caught Imran while standing in as the understudy wicketkeeper for Kiran More . |
| 10 | Thierse replaced Markus Meckel , the Foreign Minister , who had been standing in since the March resignation of Ibrahim Böhme [ see p. 37302 ] . |
| 11 | Vice-chair was Wolfgang Thierse , who had been elected chair of the East German SPD on June 9 , 1990 , in place of Markus Meckel ( himself standing in since the March resignation of Ibrahim Böhme — see p. 37302 ) . |
| 12 | Thierse replaced Markus Meckel , the then Foreign Minister , who had been standing in since the March resignation of Ibrahim Böhme [ see p. 37302 ] . |