Example sentences of "is standing [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Noir , Mrs Barzach and a third rebel RPR deputy , Jean-Michel Dubernard ( who is standing for re-election against Mr Noir 's son-in-law in Lyons ) , claim they have no desire to form a new party , despite their launch this week of a glossy 35-page ‘ Contract for a New Democracy ’ , which bears all the hallmarks of a party manifesto . |
| 2 | A similar letter ( from the Chairman ) should also be sent to anyone who , in future , is standing for election to the Executive . |
| 3 | The name of the candidate who is standing for election , and the name of his replacement , who will replace him if he becomes ineligible to be a Member of Parliament . |
| 4 | Alton 's Tony Barron will represent the Liberal Democrats ; and trade unionist Peter Jenks is standing for Labour . |
| 5 | Darlington Labour candidate Alan Milburn was at the Edinburgh Drive school last week to give his support to Juliet Baker , 15 , who is standing for Labour . |
| 6 | One is known as the G A B A , A receptor , where G A B A is standing for gamma amino butyric acid , this is the G A B A receptor . |
| 7 | It is only because Bryan Gould is standing for leader that the soft left of the Labour Party has found a voice . |
| 8 | Mr. Browne says that he is standing as constituency candidate , free to speak and act for the area and with the strength to resist party orders that are against the interests of grass roots people . |
| 9 | ‘ When he is standing in front of me and I know he is the person who has taken my daughter away — that is when it will be hard . |
| 10 | Paul is standing in front of him with an envelope . |
| 11 | Paul is standing in front of his mirror , trying on his new ruffled Mississippi gambler 's shirt and straight-leg black jeans . |
| 12 | His father is standing in front of him . |
| 13 | I have scarcely reached ‘ War Damage , Limitations of Government Liability for ’ , when I realize Mrs Tamm is standing in front of me again . |