Example sentences of "[noun] stand [adv prt] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1952 it adopted the practice of permitting deputies to stand in for the ministers : the deputies soon became permanent features , attending to all business except that deemed to be symbolically important . |
| 2 | As the flames died down and the dancers stood back for the family to precede them upstairs into the Long Room , there was a subtle change in the atmosphere . |
| 3 | His art emerges as the product of the extreme poverty of his early years when sex was cheaper than food and where the circus stood in for the corrida . |
| 4 | It suggests to me a little remarked aspect of dress and fashion : the ability of well chosen , beautiful garments to stand in for the body . |
| 5 | Again , there were difficulties with Equity when I was selected and the whole thing had to go to arbitration because the company stood out for the casting it wanted . |