Example sentences of "stand [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Get up slowly , do n't stand for long periods and if you feel faint , take some deep , rapid breaths . |
| 2 | — two letters can stand for one sound ( the letter-pair " sh " stands for a single sound ) , and one letter can stand for a sequence of two sounds ( in our dialect , " o " in the word " no " stands for two sounds in sequence , a vowel first , followed by a " w " sound made with the lips ) ; |
| 3 | Let the mixture stand for two days , and then strain . |
| 4 | He wanted them to gather last Friday and be absented from their weekend round of Championship matches , but even Albert Ferrasse , the autocratic French Federation president , would not stand for that . |
| 5 | ‘ If you 're looking for something really new , like pen-based computers or multi-media , Compaq does n't stand for that , ’ says Stewart Alsop , editor of PC Letter , a trade journal . |
| 6 | ‘ Burke Trend would never stand for that , it would undermine his power ’ , said Dick . |
| 7 | And if they ever want a reference , I 'll stand for that . |
| 8 | Such property is identical to the person and may stand for that person in his or her absence . |
| 9 | Oh yeah , they do n't stand for that today , you know . |
| 10 | The idea of a particular line can be ‘ made to represent or stand for all other particular lines of the same sort ’ . |
| 11 | There is then an attempt to generalize and move towards a universal ‘ myth ’ that can stand for all the utterances of a similar type in their various discursive contexts . |
| 12 | Thus , if the clause is reasonable it will stand for all the classes of liability under the UCTA for which exclusion is permitted if the requirement of reasonableness is satisfied . |
| 13 | We find it useful to have someone available as a stock figure to represent or stand for certain kinds of person . |
| 14 | powerful local managers may not stand for centralised decision making . |
| 15 | Next month x will stand for 8 and not 10 . |
| 16 | ( vii ) Persons guilty of a corrupt practice are disqualified from standing in any constituency for five years ; persons guilty of an illegal practice may not stand for five years in the constituency in which the offence was committed ( see above , pp.75–6 ) . |
| 17 | 1 The expression 4p +2 can stand for many numbers depending on what number p is standing for . |
| 18 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman , the Leader of the House and all those on the Treasury Bench know that the people outside will not stand for this kind of activity — The Secretary of State is supposed to be listening . |
| 19 | Americans " would not stand for this much longer . |
| 20 | Depending on its strength and the time required for it to reach maturity , a beer must stand for 12 to 48 hours before it can be drunk . |
| 21 | The fences will stand for 20 years and be removed when the task is done . |
| 22 | Rub the fish on both sides with the salt and let it stand for 20 minutes . |
| 23 | Anthropologists , in turn , have attempted to argue that , for example , the transition from brideservice , in which labour is performed by the prospective groom , to bridewealth , where objects are given in exchange for the bride , marks a significant difference in the development of a phenomenon whereby objects may stand for human labour , with the implication that this is the first stage towards the conditions of property and alienation as we know them today ( Strathern 1985 ) . |
| 24 | John Hume , addressing the protesters , stressed that ‘ we are a peaceful and dignified people , but … we are a determined people and we will stand for these social , economic and political injustices no longer ’ . |
| 25 | ’ . Again Douglas ( 1966 : 138 ) has suggested there is a liaison which exists between the physical body and its use as an expression of the social , so that one becomes a paradigm for the other : ‘ the [ human ] body is a model which can stand for any bounded system … |
| 26 | Is this independent , single parent who does n't stand for any of Barry Brant 's messin' anything like the real Hilary ? |
| 27 | ‘ He 's a hard man to deal with and Fergie wo n't stand for any nonsense . |
| 28 | In what follows we shall let J stand for any one of Z , Q , R or C. |
| 29 | If we let X stand for any one of the sets X , Q , R , C , Z[x] , etc. mentioned in Chapter 1 , then the operations of addition and multiplication defined on X may be described as binary operations on X in that , to each pair of elements of X , both + and . |
| 30 | Though I 'm giving you fair warning that I wo n't stand for any more of your spiteful tricks . |