Example sentences of "[noun sg] stand for " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's what Conservatism stands for . |
| 2 | If the pedestal stands for fixity and place , what does the frame represent ? does embroidery/stitch , void of the frame , also become a malleable term , extended to include ‘ just about anything ’ , autonomous and self-referential ? |
| 3 | The petrochemical refinery stands for something else " . |
| 4 | The field shown as COCR in the track index stands for cylinder overflow control record . |
| 5 | It is , in fact , what the brand stands for . |
| 6 | Does he also agree that it is an insult to all that Parliament stands for if the House meets from 10 pm to 11.30 pm to discuss matters that have already been decided in Brussels ? |
| 7 | Mrs Kinnock , 47 , last month announced her intention to stand for the 1994 European Parliament elections in the South East Wales constituency . |
| 8 | Before his death his wife Senator Madeleine Z. Bordallo had announced her intention to stand for Governor in the November 1990 elections . |
| 9 | The 80-year-old three-term LDP incumbent , Shunichi Suzuki , on Feb. 5 announced his intention to stand for re-election . |
| 10 | On May 8 Martin Shikuku , interim secretary-general of the party , declared his intention to stand for the presidency . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , my dear , ’ he said , pressing his knees against Amaranth 's , ‘ so it 's your intention to stand for Parliament ? ’ |
| 12 | We do know that it was not until the late summer of 1965 that he gave private indications of his intention to stand for a second term , and not until 4 November that he made his decision public . |
| 13 | Hence began the campaign to enable the President to stand for a second term of office . |
| 14 | Though making no attempt to stand for Parliament in 1841 , he was again appointed storekeeper of the ordnance in Peel 's second ministry . |
| 15 | AT THE Scottish Labour women 's conference in Perth last year , one delegate caused hoots of laughter when she described her attempt to stand for election to the district council . |
| 16 | AIDS stands for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome . |
| 17 | AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome . |
| 18 | FOR MOST of the '70s and all of the '80s , this monumental folly-cum- tour de force was universally derided as the cypher standing for all that was preposterous about the British progressive rock movement . |
| 19 | The enemy stood for different things and must be defeated . |
| 20 | Told to an outsider , the history of a lineage stood for the history of the tribe . |
| 21 | The headless trunk stood for a long second , the blood fountaining in a gush of scarlet from the raw stump of its neck , before collapsing bonelessly to the mat . |
| 22 | The decapitated head spun like a ball in the air , lips still moving ; his trunk stood for a few seconds in its own fountain of hot red gore before crashing on to the blood-stained ice . |
| 23 | Is it allegorical ( i.e. each character or event in the passage stands for something else in a parallel story ) ? |
| 24 | ‘ I am fighting for the return of the community spirit , that is basically what my whole campaign stands for . ’ |
| 25 | where IR stands for the Band 7 reading and R ( red ) for the Band 5 reading . |
| 26 | CAT stands for cysteic acid treatment , a type of protein to help repair and protect damaged hair . |
| 27 | Both Michael Levey and Neil MacGregor , the present director , have had a genuine vision of what the National Gallery stands for and an authentic commitment to the idea of a museum . |
| 28 | When numbers are written as figures a given digit stands for a word . |
| 29 | If this is what the Common European Home stands for , so enthusiastically embraced by the Germans on the occasion of Gorbachev 's visit to Bonn in June 1989 , then it is difficult to think of a more decisive rejection of the values of the Atlantic alliance . |
| 30 | She explains their shifts and duties and makes sure they understand what the home stands for and how the residents should be treated . |