Example sentences of "stand for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This had a range of meanings , but was based on the idea that an individual could stand for a race , or prefigure other individuals not yet born .
2 — two letters can stand for one sound ( the letter-pair " sh " stands for a single sound ) , and one letter can stand for a sequence of two sounds ( in our dialect , " o " in the word " no " stands for two sounds in sequence , a vowel first , followed by a " w " sound made with the lips ) ;
3 Parkin may stand for a seat on the new party executive .
4 That 's including Chippingfield if you had seen it as we saw it when we came here you would recognise how much work has gone into building the town because I was on the the council then I was asked if I would stand for the council which was then only a parish council there was no urban district council that was n't formed for four or five years afterwards and of course , we had to fight for lights everything that , er that we needed we had to fight for because there was no lighting on Netteswell Road where our children were going to school , and there were little ones .
5 She came to me one day and asked me if I would stand for the council , which I did .
6 It was easier for Labour MPs and other party members to move to a new organization than to transfer to another party ; the SDP could stand for the memory of Attlee , Morrison and Gaitskell , and argue that the present-day Labour Party had moved away towards more extreme policies .
7 In which year did Enoch Powell stand for the leadership of the Conservative Party ?
8 The next day I received a visit from Humphrey Atkins , by then our Chief Whip , telling me in enthusiastic and forceful terms that I should stand for the leadership .
9 would not stand for the stallion ;
10 ( Let M stand for the weight of Mary 's bag . )
11 I did not stand for the job ’ .
12 At this time Klaus announced that he would stand for the post of Czech ( rather than federal ) Prime Minister , a move described by the Independent of June 19 as the " clearest possible sign that the Czechs have finally given up on the federation which they had fought for " .
13 Benn joked to Ceauşescu that he should stand for the general-secretaryship of the Labour Party too !
14 The Panama canal was not opened until after the outbreak of war in 1914 , but may stand for the completion of the world sea communications system .
15 The Official Secrets Act remains substantially intact , but it now has to be read with the additional defences available under the new legislation , happily with a pendant attached deriving from the Aitken case that juries will not stand for the use of oppressive legislation in cases of mild divulgence , and confidentiality has been confirmed as being available where secret information is breached without official justification .
16 Since we can not see how many , we will let the letter $ stand for the number of sweets in the box .
17 You can use algebra shorthand to rewrite this sentence by letting a letter stand for the number being thought of .
18 ( Let x stand for the number . )
19 ( Let c stand for the number of balls . )
20 To hold that one G M B member should have more rights than another , to say that one member can stand for an election , but not another .
21 ‘ Constanza would n't stand for an answer .
22 Both Mead and Vygotsky proposed that communication between the child and older children or adults provides the essential conditions for emergence of ‘ media-tion ’ , whereby a word or gesture can stand for an aspect of experience .
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