Example sentences of "stand for [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | — two letters can stand for one sound ( the letter-pair " sh " stands for a single sound ) , and one letter can stand for a sequence of two sounds ( in our dialect , " o " in the word " no " stands for two sounds in sequence , a vowel first , followed by a " w " sound made with the lips ) ; |
| 2 | Parkin may stand for a seat on the new party executive . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In which year did Enoch Powell stand for the leadership of the Conservative Party ? |
| 5 | ( Let M stand for the weight of Mary 's bag . ) |
| 6 | 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 " . |
| 7 | Benn joked to Ceauşescu that he should stand for the general-secretaryship of the Labour Party too ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Since we can not see how many , we will let the letter $ stand for the number of sweets in the box . |
| 11 | ( Let c stand for the number of balls . ) |
| 12 | Both Mead and Vygotsky proposed that communication between the child and older children or adults provides the essential conditions for emergence of ‘ media-tion ’ , whereby a word or gesture can stand for an aspect of experience . |