Example sentences of "stand for what " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now accepted in common parlance , it stands for What You See Is What You Get , the implication being that the image you see on the screen will be exactly that which you get on the page . |
| 2 | Can you guess which colour stands for what ? |
| 3 | Well he 's like that different taste , never sort of with Christopher stands for what he likes and what he does n't like , shall we mix it round a bit more to mix in ? |
| 4 | ‘ We stand for what 's good in our country , so we have to be brave and reveal ourselves . |
| 5 | Saussure illustrates these principles with a diagram ( 1974 : l 12 ) , which may help to clarify his point : The two bands of wavy lines A and B stand for what in a pre-linguistic state would be two continua : respectively an ‘ indefinite plane of jumbled ideas ’ and ‘ the equally vague plane of sounds ’ . |
| 6 | And I think his comment should stand for what it is . |
| 7 | When the Eighth Army turned and stood for what was to be the first battle of Alamein , a tiny force consisting of the 11th Field Regiment and a part of the Essex Regiment was rushed to the Ruweisat Ridge with orders to plug the vital gap between the South African positions on the coast and the New Zealanders on the edge of the Quattara Depression . |