Example sentences of "stand [adv prt] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kitchen floors need to be tough enough to withstand all sorts of spills , grease and damp , comfortable enough to stand on for long periods , and handsome to look at . |
| 2 | Never use wicker chairs to stand on for odd jobs around the house . |
| 3 | I will be true despite thy scythe and thee ’ ) , in Sonnet 116 the Friend seems to have receded into the background while the poet stands up for all men ; Although the poet 's love is included in the affirmation , I would agree with Ingram and Redpath in seeing the poem rather as ‘ a meditative attempt to define perfect love ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ If the church is n't going to stand up for good values , who is ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It 's hard to stand up for that length of time , ’ said Couples , who had two double-bogeys in his 71 . |
| 6 | Reading right-wing papers also made people more inclined to believe the Conservative Party had convincing policies and was likely to keep its promises , that Kinnock was neither decisive , nor trustworthy , nor a good leader of a team , and especially that he could not be relied upon to stand up for British interests against the USSR . |
| 7 | Aldergrove stands by for big take-off |
| 8 | The train was electrically lighted , and in order to economise current when the train had to stand by for some time , nearly every lamp was under separate control . |
| 9 | stand in for any Committee member , if you |
| 10 | Bus chiefs stand up for older vehicles |
| 11 | Evidently , one tends to forget the worst episodes over time , and remembers only those items that stand out for some reason ’ . |
| 12 | Stand by for interminable consultation exercises , formulation and revision of elaborate ( and strangely unworkable ) schemes , and a torrent of litigation . |
| 13 | Finally ( for now ) , J. Whitby-Smith , of London E11 , highlights a similar confusion about one of my own articles ( ’ Stand by for bad winters ’ , 28 October , 1982 , p 220 ) . |
| 14 | Are we going to fry ( ’ The curious case of the shrinking Sun , ’ New Scientist , 3 March , p 592 ) , or freeze ( ’ Stand by for bad winters ’ , New Scientist , 28 October , 1982 , p 220 ) ? |
| 15 | Even those who thought that spatial perception would stand in for technical ability at age thirteen felt that the match between the specific ability and general intelligence was too close to allow it to generate a specialised educational form . |
| 16 | Er apparently they phone her up or summat and ask her if she 'll go and stand in for other people and she turned round and says if I ca n't have this school I 'm not doing any . |
| 17 | On April 26 it was announced that Tesfaye Dinka , Deputy Prime Minister in charge of Foreign Affairs and a US-trained economist , had been made Prime Minister ( a post vacant since November 1989 ) , with a brief to form a new Cabinet composed of individuals " who can stand up for Ethiopian unity " . |
| 18 | This was particularly so on the Sunday when , in scorching heat , Brazilian fans ‘ danced , sang , shouted and screamed hysterically for every point scored by their players and ever fault by Germany 's Markus Zoecke , standing in for heat-stroke victim Becker , in what proved to be the decisive fourth rubber . |
| 19 | Taking part were the Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers of the five states ( with Deputy Premier Claudio Martelli standing in for Italian Premier Giulio Andreotti ) ; observers attended from the European Commission , the World Bank , the European Investment Bank and the new European Bank for Reconstruction and Development . |
| 20 | This involves standing up for personal rights and expressing your thoughts , feelings , and beliefs directly , honestly , and spontaneously in ways that are respectful of the rights of others . |
| 21 | For that very reason , the Government are standing up for British businesses and British services in Brussels as we want more jobs , not fewer . |
| 22 | In standing out for true sportsmanship on the field Mr Chapman , loyally backed by his players , set a standard which has raised the sport he loved to the highest level , and has won for him the gratitude of sportsmen the world over . ’ |
| 23 | Getting this ingredient off the drawing boards and into bricks and mortar — not to mention details such as Donald Duck doorknobs — was indeed the stuff of dreams for Stern , who has always stood up for emotional content : ‘ In my view , whether you are engaged in a theme park , a hospital , or a court house , the building should elicit some excitement . ’ |
| 24 | Against bands of ‘ experts ’ and administrators , he has stood up for sensible methods of teaching and testing . |
| 25 | Cos he , he 's , he 's only stood about for first hour anyway . |
| 26 | I mean , you stood up for four hits , Mouse ? ’ |
| 27 | I stood up for six questions , not least for question No. 3 , in which I have a constituency interest . |
| 28 | Is it not time the hon. Gentleman did the job he is paid for and stood up for British sport ? |
| 29 | She has been discovered by the feminists , who have rescued her from being seen as a minor pastoralist ; but in certain cases , they have also subject her to psycho-symbolic sexual analysis which she would have loathed , or blamed her for not having cared more for sexual politics or stood out for lesbian sexuality . |