Example sentences of "[not/n't] stand [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 8 ) Where the prospective parliamentary candidate has been selected and subsequently intimates his or her intention not to stand for parliament in the constituency as the Labour Party candidate at the next election , the procedure set out in section ( 3 ) of this clause shall ( subject to section ( 4 ) of this clause ) be forthwith set in motion again . |
| 2 | The reshuffle was made easier by the decision of John Wakeham , formerly Energy Secretary , not to stand for re-election . |
| 3 | Reluctantly , Johnson accepted their advice , and on 31 March 1968 he made a dramatic appearance on nationwide television to announce a fresh peace initiative , the reduction of bombing raids on North Vietnam , and his decision not to stand for re-election in November . |
| 4 | Committee Miss J. Brown and Mrs. V. Hawkins have decided not to stand for re-election to the committee . |
| 5 | Committee Miss J. Brown and Mrs. V. Hawkins have decided not to stand for re-election to the committee . |
| 6 | The Austrian Communist Party ( Kommunistische Partei Österreichs — KPÖ ) at its congress in Vienna on Jan. 20-21 , 1990 , accepted the decision of Franz Muhri , who had been chair for 25 years , not to stand for re-election . |
| 7 | On June 17 Roman announced his intention not to stand for President . |
| 8 | For instance , when a teacher is speaking or demonstrating it is better not to stand in front of windows . |
| 9 | Sonia Gandhi 's decision not to stand in by-election |
| 10 | It is no accident that certain adjectives which can appear as postnominal , but not prenominal , attributives do also appear in predicative position , while , on the other hand , certain adjectives which only occur prenominally can not stand as predicatives : ( 33 ) the robber was asleep not noticing the robber asleep , they missed their revenge the asleep robber ( 34 ) their proposals are sheer lunacy their lunacy is sheer lunacy sheer of this sort is unsurprising |
| 11 | Unless it is submitted that prisoners have , on entering prison , surrendered all rights over their own bodies , in which case medical experimentation on them would be equally lawful , the case can not stand as authority for the proposition that there exists a duty , even as regards prisoners , far less at large , to prevent someone from refusing food and , a fortiori , medical treatment . |
| 12 | The speed at which McCarthy gathered support stunned America and had the campuses screaming with delight , especially when , on 31 March , their arch-enemy Lyndon B. Johnson announced he would not stand for re-election . |
| 13 | He replaces Berndt Schultz , the Fair 's founder , who did not stand for re-election . |
| 14 | European leaders who had feared since Korea that America 's relentless anti-Communism would end in disaster gave Johnson little support and he did not stand for re-election in 1968 . |
| 15 | He did not stand for re-election to the Parliament of 1780 ; but he was elected for Ripon in 1787 , and became a commissioner of the Board of Trade in 1788 . |
| 16 | Whilst the process of jury selection was still under way , Barry made a television address on June 13 in which he announced that he would not stand for re-election for a fourth term in November 1990 , but would serve the remainder of his current four-year term , due to expire on Jan. 2 , 1991 . |
| 17 | However , she did not stand for re-election in 1979 . |
| 18 | He stated that he would not stand for re-election as majority whip in the Senate , nor would he seek re-election to the Senate when his current term expired in 1992 . |
| 19 | Kokoomus , led by the outgoing Prime Minister , Harri Holkeri ( who did not stand for re-election ) , lost 3.8 per cent and 13 of its 53 seats . |
| 20 | ( vi ) Bankrupts — an undischarged bankrupt can not stand for Parliament . |
| 21 | That as they 've been made redundant , as they 've been victimized for trade union activity possibly , we then as a union decide that they can not stand for office ? |
| 22 | Do not stand on chairs to reach something at ceiling level . |
| 23 | Constables have a definite view about the style of authority they prefer in officers , which is summed up well by the remark that they need to be ‘ one of the boys ’ : that is , they should not stand on ceremony and overtly assert their authority . |
| 24 | It had an Australian squadron when I first went there and the Aussies do not stand on ceremony . |
| 25 | It may be that Rashid can not stand after Charles and Lambie . |
| 26 | Following Howe 's personal statement on Nov. 13 , Heseltine on the following day abandoned his earlier position that he would not stand against Thatcher , claiming that he was best placed to win back former Conservative voters , that he had the better prospect of leading the Conservative Party to a fourth successive general election victory and so of preventing " the ultimate catastrophe of a Labour victory in a general election " , and that he had already received the committed support of 100 MPs . |
| 27 | Such was the speculation that Hurd and Major — Thatcher 's two nominators for the contest — were obliged to issue a joint statement insisting that they would not stand against Mrs Thatcher in a second ballot , but this all too clearly left open the possibility that they would stand if she were out of the contest . |
| 28 | At the end of it , is all that is left a kind of residual and outmoded cultural tradition which can not stand against capital 's organizational expertise in confronting labour ? |
| 29 | If heterosexuality and homosexuality are equally valid , the one can not stand in judgement on the other . |
| 30 | In Nizan 's system , ideology does not stand in confrontation to aesthetics . |