Example sentences of "[noun pl] stand for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rosenthal has selected just three artists to stand for new developments in the Nineties : Jeff Koons , Robert Gober and Mike Kelly . |
| 2 | Some organisations stand for total deregulation while others emphasise the consumer . |
| 3 | The colours stand for different things : Guyana 's green land , its mineral resources , the country 's rivers , the energy of the people as they build the nation 's riches and their persistence in doing this task . |
| 4 | The initials stand for Technical Assistance to the Commonwealth of Independent States … an initiative by the EC to provide financial and technical assistance on safety to the operators of six Russian and two Ukrainian reactors . |
| 5 | The IBA , with an over-abundance of legal caution , did cut such references from a Labour Party political broadcast , apparently on the ground that the broadcasters might be deemed " malicious " if their dominant motive was to win votes for themselves rather than to inform the public of the truth about persons standing for public office . |
| 6 | People asked her , significantly in that suffragette period , if the initials stood for New Women 's Movement . |