Example sentences of "[noun sg] to stand for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , my dear , ’ he said , pressing his knees against Amaranth 's , ‘ so it 's your intention to stand for Parliament ? ’ |
| 2 | The 80-year-old three-term LDP incumbent , Shunichi Suzuki , on Feb. 5 announced his intention to stand for re-election . |
| 3 | Before his death his wife Senator Madeleine Z. Bordallo had announced her intention to stand for Governor in the November 1990 elections . |
| 4 | AT THE Scottish Labour women 's conference in Perth last year , one delegate caused hoots of laughter when she described her attempt to stand for election to the district council . |
| 5 | Though making no attempt to stand for Parliament in 1841 , he was again appointed storekeeper of the ordnance in Peel 's second ministry . |
| 6 | The right to stand for election still remained restricted to Matai . |
| 7 | The Fono is elected by universal suffrage for up to three years , although the right to stand for election remains confined to members of the Matai ( elected clan leaders ) . |
| 8 | Indeed , Eleanor Rathbone condemned what she viewed as the selfishness of middle class women who , having got ‘ all they wanted for themselves out of the women 's movement when it gave them the vote , the right to stand for Parliament and the local authorities , and to enter the learned professions ’ , then sat back . |
| 9 | THE Yorkshire Post , which should know , says Glenda Jackson is seriously considering the offer of a nomination to stand for selection as Labour candidate in Leeds East in succession to Denis Healey . |
| 10 | Of the 20 Cabinet ministers and ministers of state in the outgoing government to stand for election only four were returned . |
| 11 | Anthony Wedgwood-Benn renounced his peerage in order to stand for election to the House of Commons . |