Example sentences of "standing for the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a proper noun standing for the state of being modern it has never really caught on as a popular word in everyday speech . |
| 2 | Radford is standing for the chairmanship of the British Athletic Federation at its annual meeting of clubs in Birmingham on 20 March . |
| 3 | FOUR people are standing for the chairmanship of the Scottish Liberal Democrats . |
| 4 | There are several rival Opinion Poll candidates , standing for the principle of opinion polls themselves as the most truly democratic form of government , with the prospect of a permanent general election . |
| 5 | They are standing for the rest of the afternoon . |
| 6 | Adjusting to middle-age is its other main concern , with Marrakech ( perceived by Walter entirely through the lush vagueness of travel-brochure prose ) standing for the life of exotic , unfettered opportunity that becomes increasingly unattainable . |
| 7 | For instance ( using the familiar Venn diagrams ) it will be said that the underlined phrase of ( 11 ) ( which is , incidentally , a zoologically correct statement ) owes its restrictive quality to the fact that there is an intersection between circle a , standing for the class of piranhas , and circle b , standing for the class of vegetarian creatures , and this intersection represents the beings denoted by the subject of the sentence : ( 11 ) vegetarian piranhas can be found in the Amazon ( 12 ) However , such implications are incorrect ; it is by no means necessarily true that the property instantiated by a restrictive adjective is to be ascribed to the entity qualified . |
| 8 | For instance ( using the familiar Venn diagrams ) it will be said that the underlined phrase of ( 11 ) ( which is , incidentally , a zoologically correct statement ) owes its restrictive quality to the fact that there is an intersection between circle a , standing for the class of piranhas , and circle b , standing for the class of vegetarian creatures , and this intersection represents the beings denoted by the subject of the sentence : ( 11 ) vegetarian piranhas can be found in the Amazon ( 12 ) However , such implications are incorrect ; it is by no means necessarily true that the property instantiated by a restrictive adjective is to be ascribed to the entity qualified . |
| 9 | They perceive it as standing for the interest of society as a whole , and are constrained by this ideological view to tolerate its infringements of their sectarian interests , providing that these are not too severe . |