Example sentences of "stand [noun] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said 19 people have been committed to stand trial for various offences . |
| 2 | By its very nature , the organic content in a fertile soil constitutes a reservoir , a bank balance that will stand withdrawals for some time with little or nothing going in , which explains why fertility can often be maintained for a while by replacing lost nutrients with straight chemicals . |
| 3 | Violette , armed only with a sten sub-machine-gun , covered her companions ' retreat through standing corn for twenty minutes until she had no more ammunition , and was taken prisoner . |
| 4 | One suffragette , Rosa Lamartine Yates , recounted that she had witnessed the double-standard in action while standing bail for two women at the west London police court . |
| 5 | bill for the quarter between the second of August and the twentieth of September , and he had to pay seven quid for standing charges for that bill . |
| 6 | In August , 1981 , Dr Leonard Arthur , a 55 year old consultant paediatrician of Church Broughton stood trial for attempted murder . |
| 7 | These are most visible when ducal retainers stood surety for each other . |
| 8 | These are most visible when ducal retainers stood surety for each other . |