Example sentences of "stand for the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | — The altar with its twelve pillars ( verse 4 ) stands for the bringing of the whole people of God into his presence ( for there were twelve tribes of Israel ) . |
| 2 | At the mere mention of a coat , she sits , eyes closed , nose pointing upwards to have it slipped on , then stands for the belt to be fastened . |
| 3 | Remember that velocity stands for the ratio of total spending over a period of time to the stock of money available . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The revolutionary democracy of Russia stands for the indivisibility of the State . |
| 6 | As ‘ sacrament ’ it stands for the sacrifice of the cross through which we were brought near to God . |
| 7 | Peter stands for the Church under persecution . |
| 8 | Thus , for example , the Labour Party in Britain supposedly stands for the redistribution of wealth , the maintenance of a national health and social security system , considerable government intervention in the economy and so on . |
| 9 | She stands for the civilization of the South , of the Midi , the home of the troubadours , against the sterner , rougher , cruder world of the North , represented , in this image , by her husband , the King of the North Wind , whose authority she is subtly undermining and against whom she will soon break out in open rebellion . |
| 10 | It represents the logical conclusion to preceding buildings and is the expression of national culture ; it stands for the essence of Muscovite Christianity in Russia and was the last great church of the movement in this architectural form . |
| 11 | In that rich compendium of ethnographic treasures , Shakespeare 's Bawdy , Eric Partridge tells us that the word horn stands for the penis in an extramarital adventure , as in the ‘ horn of adultery ’ or ‘ horn-maker ’ ( causer of cuckoldry ) . |
| 12 | 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 " . |
| 13 | One of Scotland 's more interesting ruins , Minto stands for the moment in unspoilt Scottish Borders scenery , which could never be ‘ replicated ’ in Japan . |
| 14 | In Women and Psychology ( Williams 1979 ) , for instance , Ladner 's paper ‘ Growing up Black ’ , which describes the specific experiences of growing up in US cities in the 1960s , has to stand for the effects of both ‘ race ’ and class on gender . |
| 15 | John Taylor says he thought long and hard before deciding not to stand for the Conservatives in Cheltenham again . |
| 16 | Carlos Abadia , leader of the broad-based opposition movement National Civic Crusade ( NCC ) , claimed that it was well known that Ford wished to stand for the presidency in 1994 and that he wished to give up his ministerial post " to reduce the political pressure on him " . |
| 17 | The resignations of four government ministers in late September were believed to be related to forthcoming elections , with Education Minister Ricardo Lagos Escobar in particular stepping down in order to stand for the presidency in 1993 , and Carlos Ominami Pascual ( Economy ) to organize his campaign . |
| 18 | ‘ We stand for the liberty of the individual — Habeas Corpus . ’ |
| 19 | We stand for the removal of suspicion in the country . |
| 20 | If understood in a particular way , this Franciscan insight captures , I believe , the essence of those who stand for the promotion of animal welfare . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In which year did Enoch Powell stand for the leadership of the Conservative Party ? |
| 23 | ( Let M stand for the weight of Mary 's bag . ) |
| 24 | 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 " . |
| 25 | Benn joked to Ceauşescu that he should stand for the general-secretaryship of the Labour Party too ! |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The Official Secrets Act remains substantially intact , but it now has to be read with the additional defences available under the new legislation , happily with a pendant attached deriving from the Aitken case that juries will not stand for the use of oppressive legislation in cases of mild divulgence , and confidentiality has been confirmed as being available where secret information is breached without official justification . |
| 28 | Since we can not see how many , we will let the letter $ stand for the number of sweets in the box . |
| 29 | ( Let c stand for the number of balls . ) |
| 30 | As a proper noun standing for the state of being modern it has never really caught on as a popular word in everyday speech . |