Example sentences of "[noun] stand for [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Let M stand for the weight of Mary 's bag . ) |
| 2 | Told to an outsider , the history of a lineage stood for the history of the tribe . |
| 3 | RM1 correctly identified 48% of the phonemes in the test utterances , though of course , these labels stood for a set of phonemes ( Bard et al 1987 ) . |
| 4 | The revolutionary democracy of Russia stands for the indivisibility of the State . |
| 5 | In which year did Enoch Powell stand for the leadership of the Conservative Party ? |
| 6 | One of Scotland 's more interesting ruins , Minto stands for the moment in unspoilt Scottish Borders scenery , which could never be ‘ replicated ’ in Japan . |
| 7 | So Mt Sinai stands for the fulfilment of one half of the covenant promise of Exodus 6:7 : " I will take you for my people " . |
| 8 | Oliver stood for a moment in terror , the blood rushing through him until he felt he was on fire . |
| 9 | When Sir Alec lost the 1964 election their hour arrived , and all but Macleod stood for the leadership under a new system of open elections within the party . |
| 10 | Harry stood for the Isle of Man parliament in November officially Independent , ideologically Conservative . |
| 11 | Owen stood for a moment in stunned shock . |
| 12 | Remember that velocity stands for the ratio of total spending over a period of time to the stock of money available . |
| 13 | As a proper noun standing for the state of being modern it has never really caught on as a popular word in everyday speech . |
| 14 | Peter stands for the Church under persecution . |
| 15 | Durham stood for an idyll of ten years . |
| 16 | Athelstan stood for a moment in disbelief , then he moved over to the other bed post : there , in the centre , the artist had etched a life-like horse . |
| 17 | The young man stood for a moment on an overhanging ledge of the bank , looking down at the water ; the dog swam round and round below ; the man 's body was flecked all over with light and the shadow patterns of leaves , so that he seemed some human extension of the place . |
| 18 | And there Anne stood for the rest of the day , a lonely little girl with a small white angry face . |
| 19 | He gives the obvious explanation that Shakespeare has read Ovid on Salmacis , and spices it with the assurance that Adonis stands for the Earl of Southampton , whom he keeps calling Wriothesley . |
| 20 | The resignations of four government ministers in late September were believed to be related to forthcoming elections , with Education Minister Ricardo Lagos Escobar in particular stepping down in order to stand for the presidency in 1993 , and Carlos Ominami Pascual ( Economy ) to organize his campaign . |
| 21 | In that rich compendium of ethnographic treasures , Shakespeare 's Bawdy , Eric Partridge tells us that the word horn stands for the penis in an extramarital adventure , as in the ‘ horn of adultery ’ or ‘ horn-maker ’ ( causer of cuckoldry ) . |
| 22 | ( Let c stand for the number of balls . ) |
| 23 | Towards the end of the soirée , Eliot stood for a while by himself in a seemingly abstracted state , and , looking at him across the room , I could not decide whether he was looking in my direction or not . |
| 24 | Mr Wolfgang Berghofer , the 46-year-old mayor of Dresden who had been tipped to become the new party chief , said yesterday that he and a renewed party stood for a break with Stalinism and instead wanted socialism with a human face . |
| 25 | On the doorstep of number 54 , Henry stood for a moment in the gloom , flexing his fingers . |