Example sentences of "that it stand for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reference ( or denotation ) of an expression is the thing that it stands for ; e.g. the reference of the predicate ’ is blue ’ is the set of things that are blue . |
| 2 | I am still 100 per cent behind Credit Management and all that it stands for . |
| 3 | ‘ Established cinemas , theatres etc … exist in the police universe to repress the very things that It stands for . |
| 4 | At breakfast together Fisher exploded and attacked the Church Union and all that it stood for and said that they had done great harm and ought to apologize . |
| 5 | To generalize and say that it stood for anything at all was self-delusion and deceit . |
| 6 | Although only twenty-two houses were represented the syndicat recognised that it stood for the rights of some sixty Champagne houses , virtually the entire trade at the time . |
| 7 | He 'd always assumed that this was a piece of official terminology until one day he 'd asked what it meant , and found out that it stood for Another Fucking Drunk . |
| 8 | When it was certain that the City of the Horizon would collapse , and all that it stood for , I wrote to him , to try to get him to save himself . |