Example sentences of "[vb mod] stand for [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Benn joked to Ceauşescu that he should stand for the general-secretaryship of the Labour Party too !
2 It was easier for Labour MPs and other party members to move to a new organization than to transfer to another party ; the SDP could stand for the memory of Attlee , Morrison and Gaitskell , and argue that the present-day Labour Party had moved away towards more extreme policies .
3 Parkin may stand for a seat on the new party executive .
4 The Panama canal was not opened until after the outbreak of war in 1914 , but may stand for the completion of the world sea communications system .
5 At this time Klaus announced that he would stand for the post of Czech ( rather than federal ) Prime Minister , a move described by the Independent of June 19 as the " clearest possible sign that the Czechs have finally given up on the federation which they had fought for " .
6 — two letters can stand for one sound ( the letter-pair " sh " stands for a single sound ) , and one letter can stand for a sequence of two sounds ( in our dialect , " o " in the word " no " stands for two sounds in sequence , a vowel first , followed by a " w " sound made with the lips ) ;
7 Both Mead and Vygotsky proposed that communication between the child and older children or adults provides the essential conditions for emergence of ‘ media-tion ’ , whereby a word or gesture can stand for an aspect of experience .
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