Example sentences of "standing [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holder , despite rave reports from Pakistan after standing as a neutral umpire in the series against India , has n't umpired another England Test since . |
| 2 | The party 's chairperson , Alan Warren , who is standing as a local government candidate in the Castle ward , has hit out at planning restrictions on commercial development in the north of the city . |
| 3 | At the next elections to the Council , Wylie continued his protest by standing as a Protestant Unionist and he was elected . |
| 4 | At the time of Dr. Arthur 's trial , a Mrs. Carr , who had been born without arms , was standing as an independent pro-life candidate in a forthcoming by-election . |
| 5 | The Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) with 10.1 per cent secured one seat and an MPRP candidate , standing as an independent , won the remaining seat . |
| 6 | And what we 've got in standing for a general election is about two and a half thousand men and about five hundred women . |
| 7 | Earlier Neil Kinnock , the Labour leader , hoped it would be demonstrated that Sir Nicholas did not speak for other Tories ‘ because the gutter language he used is not fit for anyone standing for a democratic party ’ . |
| 8 | On June 21 Kurt Waldheim , 72 , announced that he would not be standing for a second term as President in the elections due in 1992 . |
| 9 | Just sit down and and sit still for a minute because you 'll be standing for a long time playing the recorder as well , if you want if you want to go to the toilet just take yourself all right . |
| 10 | We left the infirmary , standing for a few minutes outside , drinking in the sweet morning air . |
| 11 | By that I mean that I see the New English Art Club as standing for a cultured , civilised , very English approach to art — a kind of visual stability . |
| 12 | to your Council did I knock on the door and say standing for the Liberal Democrats , they said well we 're not sure it 's the way we are going to vote for you , we may vote for somebody else . |
| 13 | None of the sample group were asked to name the candidates standing for the Liberal Democrats , Green Party and British National Party . |
| 14 | Among the candidates is Alessandra Mussolini , granddaughter of Il Duce , standing for the neo-fascist MSI party in Milan . |
| 15 | When a number of us here did a study of the 1984 Chesterfield by-election , where Tony Benn was standing for the first time , and asked constituents themselves what they felt about the broadcast coverage , they repeatedly used the word ‘ bias ’ to describe it . |
| 16 | Former leader Neil Kinnock is expected to top the NEC poll and Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown , standing for the first time , is also expected to sweep in . |
| 17 | We encountered this view at the beginning of this book , in the dialogues of Plato , where we found talk of ‘ the ascent to see the things in the upper world [ which ] you may take as standing for the upward journey into the region of the intelligible ’ . |
| 18 | No doubt as to where I would be standing for the eight-hour day , two miles out to sea . |
| 19 | The two trees : the phrase " good and evil " may well be a Hebrew idiom standing for the full range of moral knowledge represented by the two extremes . |
| 20 | AN election candidate was last night accused of abusing democracy after some of the people who signed his nomination papers said they were not told he was standing for the far-Right British National Party . |
| 21 | The party chairman , Godfrey M'Mwereria , an environmentalist and former lecturer at Kenyatta University , said he would contest the forthcoming presidential elections , as well as standing for the parliamentary seat of Tigania in Meru district . |
| 22 | Standing between the two stone urns which Victoria had thoughtfully filled with pink geraniums and ivy the previous day , they made a pretty picture . |
| 23 | Walking exercises your legs and buttock muscles and builds up stamina , but a few add-on exercises will really pay dividends — though you might still have trouble standing after the first day on your skis . |
| 24 | ‘ We dined this day , ’ writes Johnson , ‘ at the house of Mr Frazer of Streichton , who shewed us in his grounds some stones yet standing of a druidical circle , and what I began to think more worthy of notice , some forest trees of full growth . ’ |
| 25 | It shows him , impassive in dark glasses , standing behind the saluting general . |
| 26 | This came from a man standing behind the shrill woman . |
| 27 | It was a long bus-ride to reach those low huts standing behind the high fence . |
| 28 | This is a frail old gallery in the yard next to the weavers ' yard , standing behind the main street . |
| 29 | Inside was a photograph of Samantha , standing against a whitewashed wall , wearing a baggy tee-shirt and jeans , holding up a copy of the International Herald Tribune so the date on the front page was clearly visible : Friday 4 September . |
| 30 | You can still signal using your arms , provided you 're standing against a suitable background . |