Example sentences of "stands for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is what he stands for that they do n't like . |
| 2 | Letterman 's notion of the universal spirit has a commercial aspect : it stands for that human striving which exists as a counter to the banality of human life in the suburbs and malls of our countries . |
| 3 | Ann stands for all the women of common-sense , warm affection , and practical piety that Edward repeatedly attempted to sketch realistically or to record in dream-like settings in his essays and sketches . |
| 4 | I have ended the story with killing and bloodshed because I want to leave that picture before your eyes — a picture which stands for all the anguish and hardship and disappointment and dangers anyone going to Eretz must expect . |
| 5 | Emerson rejects convention and in doing so stands for all the values that Forster believed to be most important — authenticity and truth . |
| 6 | ICMS stands for Integrated Crop Management Systems and , unless you are involved in produce growing , it is an expression you have probably never heard . |
| 7 | ‘ Adam & Eve ’ stands for Automated Document Analysis and Manipulation & Extensible Variety of Exercises . |
| 8 | What will be the new proper numbers of the agents at the side of the page when now stands for 8 ? |
| 9 | 2 If you are told that 1 stands for 8 , that is 1 8 , find the value of the following : |
| 10 | CMOS devices are also re-programmable using electrically erasable circuitry , and can pack more circuitry on board than bipolar chips — hence the ‘ CE ’ in the name which stands for CMOS-Erasable . |
| 11 | ( FIMBRA stands for Financial Intermediaries , Managers and Brokers Regulatory Association . ) |
| 12 | H. This stands for historic pricing and indicates that unless there has been an intervening revaluation investors may deal at the prices quoted in the newspaper on that day ( which were set at the closing levels of the previous day ) . |
| 13 | F. This stands for forward pricing and indicates that investors can be given no firm price before the transaction takes place . |
| 14 | Prosamo ( which stands for planned release of selected and modified organisms ) is sponsoring a wide range of studies on the behaviour of genetically engineered organisms in the environment . |
| 15 | It often refers to any individual member organization irrespective of its actual name , i.e. whether it is an association or federation or whether it stands for Planned Parenthood , Family Well-being , Responsible Parenthood , Protection of the Family or Family Health , etc . |
| 16 | He also quipped that , since NT stands for New Technology , ‘ we will will have to change that when it 's a few years old . ’ |
| 17 | He also quipped that , since NT stands for New Technology , ‘ we will will have to change that when it 's a few years old . ’ |
| 18 | NB IT STANDS FOR NEW BANDS |
| 19 | ‘ It stands for New Kentucky . ’ |
| 20 | NB IT STANDS FOR NEW BANDS |
| 21 | These were called W+ ( pronounced W plus ) , w ( pronounced W minus ) , and Q ( pronounced Z naught ) , and each had a mass of around 100 GeV ( GeV stands for giga-electron-volt , or one thousand million electron volts ) . |
| 22 | They 've been given er labels of T L and N where the T er colloquially stands for tiny , L stands for large in terms of the single channel condu respective single channel conductances and er I 'm not sure what the origin of N is . |
| 23 | The surprise is not that an accountant stands for Labour while an iron and steel worker is an Alliance candidate , but rather that the class basis of the two sets of candidates is so distinct . |
| 24 | This stands for Cooperative Awards in Science and Engineering and erm under this scheme , a company erm can have a problem tackled by a research student working in a university and erm a supervisor , and indeed in this case , the input , the financial input , by the company may be quite small , may only amount to a few hundred pounds . |
| 25 | The International Atomic Energy Agency of the United Nations organises the Intor workshops ( Intor stands for International Tokamak Reactor ) although most of the work is actually carried out by groups working in their various home laboratories . |
| 26 | Contrary to his quip about the B standing for Bad , it does not — it stands for Better . |
| 27 | CNAPS stands for Connected Network of Adaptive ProcessorS , pointing to the fact that the system applies neural network technology , although as neural networks are less fashionable than parallel systems at the moment , the company is describing it as the lowest priced massively parallel system on the market . |
| 28 | CNAPS stands for Connected Network of Adaptive ProcessorS , pointing to the fact that the system applies neural network technology , although as neural networks are less fashionable than parallel systems at the moment , the company is describing it as the lowest priced massively parallel system on the market . |
| 29 | In the Friday workouts , ‘ q ’ stands for quick pace and ‘ e ’ stands for easy . |
| 30 | So if this stands for this year 's output at a hundred percent fifty percent of it has to be added on to give next year 's . |