Example sentences of "stand for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone stands for the general salute — they may be civilian guests , but they have studied the programme avidly and have learnt what to do . |
| 2 | Alan Pugh is the secretary of another group of initials , BFICC , which stands for the British Facsimile Industry Consultative Committee . |
| 3 | Again he said , in an argument strangely reminiscent of Erastus , Richard Hooker and Matthew Arnold , that ‘ the State is more sacred than any Church … for the State stands for the whole people in their manifold collective life ; and any Church is but a fragment of that life , though one of the most important fragments ’ . |
| 4 | to stand for the other people 's names . |
| 5 | The trouble started with the decision of his wife , Semra , to stand for the powerful job of head of the Motherland Party in Istanbul . |
| 6 | Oh and yes … a chap from Conservative Central Office rang up to say they 'd like to know if you would be prepared to stand for the European Parliament . |
| 7 | And no obvious reason exists why meat , so long a symbol of human hegemony , should not , in time , come to stand for the unacceptable face of consumerism . |
| 8 | Squirrels are not treated literally as ‘ things ’ in the outer world but as , firstly , parts of sets defined by such criteria as ‘ those that live in trees ’ and , secondly , ‘ available for symbolic manipulation ’ since they can be taken to stand for the very trees they live in . |
| 9 | At any rate , at the next ward meeting , he suggested that I might like to stand for the local council . |
| 10 | Richmann seethed at Henri 's arrogance , and consoled himself that with any luck he would n't have to stand for the superstitious fool 's whims for much longer Drawing a gun from a shoulder holster , he prepared to fight his way through the streets if necessary ; it would be nothing compared to what was to come , he thought . |
| 11 | If output could be expanded up to the point unc where price equals marginal cost , there would be an extensive gain in social welfare , namely the shaded area. , Making the simplifying assumptions that there are no income effects and that any effects on the distribution of income are unimportant , this area may stand for the true change in social welfare . |
| 12 | Celtic , on 21 March , 1992 , were the last side to beat Rangers at Ibrox and that is a record which , domestically at any rate , could stand for the foreseeable future unless visiting clubs are willing to alter their attitude to them . |
| 13 | to your Council did I knock on the door and say standing for the Liberal Democrats , they said well we 're not sure it 's the way we are going to vote for you , we may vote for somebody else . |
| 14 | None of the sample group were asked to name the candidates standing for the Liberal Democrats , Green Party and British National Party . |
| 15 | Among the candidates is Alessandra Mussolini , granddaughter of Il Duce , standing for the neo-fascist MSI party in Milan . |
| 16 | We encountered this view at the beginning of this book , in the dialogues of Plato , where we found talk of ‘ the ascent to see the things in the upper world [ which ] you may take as standing for the upward journey into the region of the intelligible ’ . |
| 17 | No doubt as to where I would be standing for the eight-hour day , two miles out to sea . |
| 18 | The two trees : the phrase " good and evil " may well be a Hebrew idiom standing for the full range of moral knowledge represented by the two extremes . |
| 19 | The party chairman , Godfrey M'Mwereria , an environmentalist and former lecturer at Kenyatta University , said he would contest the forthcoming presidential elections , as well as standing for the parliamentary seat of Tigania in Meru district . |
| 20 | As one who had ‘ stood for the true religion ’ ( that is , Protestantism ) in Mary I 's first Parliament , he was assured of a leading place in local government , serving as vice-admiral of Sussex ( 1559–94 ) , deputy lieutenant of Surrey from 1569 , and sheriff again in 1579 ; he was knighted on 14 May 1576 . |
| 21 | This had some claim to be the hotbed of British fascism in the 1920s owing to the fact that Leese and a colleague had successfully stood for the local council on a British fascist policy in 1924 . |
| 22 | They all belonged to golf clubs or sailing clubs , took their holidays abroad , and were devoted Masons ; two of them had stood for the local council . |
| 23 | Creed had requisitioned an open car , and he stood for the entire procession , as a mark of his own personal respect for the deceased . |
| 24 | In my case , the first and most important candle stood for the dark forest . |
| 25 | Her fragmentation into little states , split between Protestantism and Catholicism , has been exacerbated by a split between those who wanted Western or Eastern orientation : the West , represented by the rationalism and domination of France , the liberalism and mercantilism of England , or the modernism of the United States , stood for the individual standing in a contractual relationship to society , nation-statehood and world political power ; while the East , represented by Russia and Asia beyond implied culture , tradition , anti-modernism , barbarity , community and political romanticism . |
| 26 | ( This is how the story is recorded in Luke 13:6–9 , where the fig tree stood for the self-righteous people , such as the Pharisees , who made a great show of their religion but produced few results . |
| 27 | As the credits rolled my mother and father , like most filmgoers of that generation , stood for the National Anthem . |
| 28 | In 1964 he stood for the pretty safe ( at the time ) Conservative seat of Glasgow Pollok . |
| 29 | But our to avoid that situation I left and went to work with which kept me in the Edinburgh branch and within three or four weeks I stood for the local organizer and had not been successful . |