Example sentences of "[noun prp] stand for [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The revolutionary democracy of Russia stands for the indivisibility of the State . |
| 2 | In which year did Enoch Powell stand for the leadership of the Conservative Party ? |
| 3 | 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 " . |
| 4 | Harry stood for the Isle of Man parliament in November officially Independent , ideologically Conservative . |
| 5 | Durham stood for an idyll of ten years . |
| 6 | And there Anne stood for the rest of the day , a lonely little girl with a small white angry face . |
| 7 | 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 . |