Example sentences of "[adv] stand [adv prt] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why not stand up for the uniquely British spirit embodied by Richard Lester ( who 's American — DQ ) , Rita Tushingham , Shelagh Delaney , Tom Courtenay , etc . |
| 2 | The individual who 's gon na be assertive is likely to be open and honest or likely to admit things that are not so good at honest those , but they 're not gon na necessarily apologise for those , they 're gon na treat those as statements of fact and they 're certainly gon na try and involve other people and actually say what do you think this , what are some ways forward er but it does n't mean that they 're gon na be walked all over and they still stand up for the things that they firmly believe in . |
| 3 | Again , the vice chancellor is nominally a deputy to the chancellor , but in reality is the chief academic and administrative officer of a university , in charge of its day-to-day running ( though he or she does also stand in for the chancellor on ceremonial occasions ) . |
| 4 | The you so pointedly admonished is the addressee of the poem , Torquatus , a representative Roman , fictionally standing in for the reader at large . |
| 5 | And by the way , I have an appointment in the city around eleven , so I may not be back to stand in for the dinner breaks . |
| 6 | He then stood up for the sentence , his hands on the dock rail . |