Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] stand for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had an old air-raid shelter , partly dug into the ground because of the slope : there was a load of stones on top , waiting to turn the shelter into an apple store disguised as a rockery , and when Mrs Wilson saw this she stood for a long time looking at the hump in the ground and the pile of stones . |
| 2 | ‘ The idea I have in view whilst I make the demonstration ’ may be of a particular right-angled triangle with sides of a certain length , but I may , nevertheless , be sure that it holds of all right-angled triangles if , by not mentioning the ways in which it differs from them , I use this one to stand for them all . |
| 3 | In nineteen sixty six I stood for election of the national organizer and was successful and joined the head office in Glasgow in May nineteen sixty six . |
| 4 | one and flesh of the other I sing dumb I sit pretty I stand for my |
| 5 | She hated Mrs Ramsay and all she stood for . |
| 6 | Why were heterosexual feminists outraged and repelled by us and all we stood for ? |
| 7 | One thing unites both factions : an abhorrence of the Dark Elves of Naggaroth and all they stand for . |
| 8 | The bombers ‘ must surely know this does nothing but cast a terrible scar on all they stand for . ’ |
| 9 | Trying to explain her husband 's loathing of the Allies and all they stood for , Giovanna had told her that there had in fact been no German or even Italian troops in the monastery and that its destruction had been unnecessary . |
| 10 | In 1964 he stood for the pretty safe ( at the time ) Conservative seat of Glasgow Pollok . |
| 11 | The first factor to bring about the overthrow of the gens and all it stood for was the appearance within the ‘ gentle constitution ’ ( the gens stage ) of the pairing family . |
| 12 | D'Arcy felt a sudden insane anger at the Pessarane Behesht and all it stood for . |
| 13 | Loyalty to her clerical superiors , to the Church and all it stood for , battled with her contempt for the way in which the senior clergy had behaved both to herself and to Amy . |
| 14 | He is Eberhard von Kuenheim , undoubted architect of modern-day BMW and all it stands for . |
| 15 | No wonder Denmark signalled its dissatisfaction with Maastricht and all it stands for if a batsman needs 10,000 words of multi-lingual explanation before he is allowed to take guard . |
| 16 | Hilda Bernstein , the wife of one of those on trial , wrote : ‘ The Rivonia trial was a confrontation in which the opposing forces in South Africa appeared face to face ; those who stood for apartheid … and those who opposed it . |
| 17 | If understood in a particular way , this Franciscan insight captures , I believe , the essence of those who stand for the promotion of animal welfare . |
| 18 | IRRESPECTIVE of what political views they hold , those who stand for election in Northern Ireland require a lot of courage and conviction . |
| 19 | In April 1688 he stood for election to the Camden chair of history , but was beaten by his High Church rival , Henry Dodwell [ q.v. ] , whose canvasser Proast was . |
| 20 | In 1906 he stood for North Lambeth , where he split the Liberal vote and came third . |