Example sentences of "[adv] stand for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jackson have long stood for high quality American instruments , with their Japanese- and Korean-made Charvel counterparts sitting at the other end of the corporate see-saw . |
| 2 | powerful local managers may not stand for centralised decision making . |
| 3 | Cash 's liberalism only extends so far — he has always stood for old-fashioned values like God , country and being handy in a knife fight . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Get up slowly , do n't stand for long periods and if you feel faint , take some deep , rapid breaths . |