Example sentences of "would not stand [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Me , I 'd not stand for it . " |
| 2 | Mr Gerlach , the acting head of state , said later he was ‘ not happy ’ about taking over his new role and would not stand as a candidate in the necessary Volkskammer election . |
| 3 | Mr Gerlach , the acting head of state , said later he was ‘ not happy ’ about taking over his new role and would not stand as a candidate in the necessary Volkskammer election . |
| 4 | Mr Gerlach , the acting head of state , said later he was ‘ not happy ’ about taking over his new role and would not stand as a candidate in the necessary Volkskammer election . |
| 5 | Sonia Gandhi , the widow of the assassinated former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi , confirmed on Oct. 12 that she would not stand as a candidate in a by-election scheduled for Nov. 16 in her late husband 's Amethi constituency in the state of Uttar Pradesh . |
| 6 | Reactionary trade union officials who had steadfastly declared that they would not stand on a public platform with revolutionary workers , found themselves caught up in the stream and carried forward to participation in great united front unemployed demonstrations . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The project proved impolitic : the public would not stand for it , so the Government discarded or diluted ideology to avoid unpopularity . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Thatcherism was widely viewed at the time as a mad right-wing aberration which the people would not stand for long . |
| 11 | In Michael 's mind it was tantamount to mutiny and he would not stand for anyone disagreeing with him . |
| 12 | She was quick to tell the world that Britain would not stand for anything which undermined the role of the queen , ‘ our beloved monarch ’ , or of our 700-year-old parliament . |
| 13 | Kate would not stand for anything like that , she was too straight . |
| 14 | And he , Alexander Augustus Hope , Colonel , at your service , gentlemen , would not stand for another coarse word in her presence , DID THEY HEAR ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | With Aquino adamant that she would not stand for a second term , the jostling for position amongst those ambitious to succeed her intensified in late 1990 and early 1991 . |
| 18 | Waldheim , who had been barred from entering the USA [ see p. 35528 ] and shunned by European governments , had announced in June 1991 that he would not stand for a second term [ see p. 38298 ] . |
| 19 | Americans " would not stand for this much longer . |
| 20 | But she would not stand for his condescension . |
| 21 | would not stand for the stallion ; |
| 22 | She wished he would not stand like that , Ashley thought edgily . |
| 23 | That basically meant that Government would not stand behind the project . |
| 24 | A week earlier , Michael Heseltine , whose challenge in the leadership election contest brought about her fall , had still been adamant in public that he would not stand against her . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Although the Rev. Jesse Jackson had formally moved his address to Washington DC in 1989 — thereby making him eligible to run for mayor — he had persistently maintained that he would not stand against his " old friend " Barry . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The Transport Secretary , Mr Cecil Parkinson , assured the Commons yesterday that financial considerations would not stand in the way of implementing Sir Anthony Hidden 's 93 recommendations . |
| 29 | MR CECIL Parkinson , the Transport Secretary , gave an assurance to the Commons yesterday that financial considerations would not stand in the way of implementing recommendations of the Clapham disaster report . |
| 30 | ( Yet surely a murderer would not stand in the middle of an enormous snow-covered , frost-bitten field in the dark on such a night , just on the off-chance that someone would be silly enough to cross it alone ! ) |