Example sentences of "to stand for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a buffet you ensure that elderly and infirm guests , and those who have travelled long distances , have seats near the buffet table so that they are not obliged to stand for a long period . |
| 2 | It all seems to be about using one or two people to stand for a whole sensibility , but thereby creating the impression that they were somehow alone in the field . |
| 3 | These cases suggest that when manufacture as the signified of the object , becomes reified as having a separate and particular connotation it is not the actual process of manufacture which is of importance , but the ability of the object to stand for a particular form of production and its attendant social relations . |
| 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 . |