Example sentences of "stand for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The initials stand for Technical Assistance to the Commonwealth of Independent States … an initiative by the EC to provide financial and technical assistance on safety to the operators of six Russian and two Ukrainian reactors . |
| 2 | The Cartesian answer would be that they all stand for various kinds of mental activity , a distinguishing mark of the mental being that it is not extended in space like the other substance of Descartes 's dualism , matter . |
| 3 | Besides , this putting together of two letters which also stand for other sounds inevitably causes ambiguities — bishop and mishap — while the letters th actually have two different digraphic uses as well as their separate values , as seen in the sentence ‘ Thy thigh is waist-high . ’ |
| 4 | Does MI , for example , stand for mitral incompetence or myocardial infarct ? |
| 5 | Some organisations stand for total deregulation while others emphasise the consumer . |
| 6 | The colours stand for different things : Guyana 's green land , its mineral resources , the country 's rivers , the energy of the people as they build the nation 's riches and their persistence in doing this task . |