Example sentences of "stand in for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1952 it adopted the practice of permitting deputies to stand in for the ministers : the deputies soon became permanent features , attending to all business except that deemed to be symbolically important . |
| 2 | It suggests to me a little remarked aspect of dress and fashion : the ability of well chosen , beautiful garments to stand in for the body . |
| 3 | And by the way , I have an appointment in the city around eleven , so I may not be back to stand in for the dinner breaks . |
| 4 | But you 've got to practice with me to get the movements right so I 'm to stand in for the swan . ’ |
| 5 | An animal capable of symbolization can carry away from a situation an inner trace that stands in for the response it may make when it next encounters the situation . |
| 6 | Again , the vice chancellor is nominally a deputy to the chancellor , but in reality is the chief academic and administrative officer of a university , in charge of its day-to-day running ( though he or she does also stand in for the chancellor on ceremonial occasions ) . |
| 7 | The chief academic and administrative officer of a Scottish university , he or she is usually styled ‘ principal and vice chancellor ’ , the latter title used when standing in for the chancellor on ceremonial occasions . |
| 8 | The you so pointedly admonished is the addressee of the poem , Torquatus , a representative Roman , fictionally standing in for the reader at large . |
| 9 | Simon had of ten seen him here , at this time of night , standing in for the owner , who had nipped across to the pub for a pie and a pint . |
| 10 | Cannelini beans replaced tinned and a bechamel mixed with Pecorino Romano from Lina Stores , Brewer Street , London W1 , stood in for the cottage cheese , It was every bit as good as the original , if somewhat more sophisticated . |
| 11 | His art emerges as the product of the extreme poverty of his early years when sex was cheaper than food and where the circus stood in for the corrida . |