Example sentences of "stand [adv prt] for the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FORMER Liberal leader Sir David Steel yesterday urged Labour to stand down for the Liberal-Democrats in seats they can not win at the next Election . |
| 2 | Labour must , once again , be the party that stands up for the individual against the vested interests that hold him or her back … |
| 3 | Stand by for the campaign against cruelty to teddies ! |
| 4 | Again , the vice chancellor is nominally a deputy to the chancellor , but in reality is the chief academic and administrative officer of a university , in charge of its day-to-day running ( though he or she does also stand in for the chancellor on ceremonial occasions ) . |
| 5 | The chief academic and administrative officer of a Scottish university , he or she is usually styled ‘ principal and vice chancellor ’ , the latter title used when standing in for the chancellor on ceremonial occasions . |
| 6 | The you so pointedly admonished is the addressee of the poem , Torquatus , a representative Roman , fictionally standing in for the reader at large . |
| 7 | I should have thought that hon. Members would have got behind the work of the regulators , who are standing up for the interests of the customer . |
| 8 | If the choice now is between shoring up a democratically bankrupt Westminster or standing up for the restoration of Scottish democracy , then I am for Scottish democracy . |
| 9 | Lower bruised his left leg and was stood down for the rest of the afternoon by the course doctors . |