Example sentences of "standing for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm not playing it on my past , or standing for the publicity , but it obviously opens doors . ’ |
| 2 | As a proper noun standing for the state of being modern it has never really caught on as a popular word in everyday speech . |
| 3 | We were talking about the National Executive Committee and she was thinking of standing for the women 's section . |
| 4 | Radford is standing for the chairmanship of the British Athletic Federation at its annual meeting of clubs in Birmingham on 20 March . |
| 5 | FOUR people are standing for the chairmanship of the Scottish Liberal Democrats . |
| 6 | On the other hand , their situation is structured , and ( ‘ holism' here standing for the idea that the parts of a whole behave as the whole requires ) we are interested in the social constraints on their actions . |
| 7 | There are several rival Opinion Poll candidates , standing for the principle of opinion polls themselves as the most truly democratic form of government , with the prospect of a permanent general election . |
| 8 | They are standing for the rest of the afternoon . |
| 9 | The opening shots of the campaign were fired when Mr Gould — who is also standing for the deputy leadership along with Mr John Prescott , transport spokesman — implicitly criticised the tax policies which formed the centrepiece of his adversary 's pre-election shadow Budget . |
| 10 | Her intervention — after dismissing reports at the weekend that she would be standing for the deputy leadership — will be seen as an attempt to block Mr Gould 's bid for the post . |
| 11 | Adjusting to middle-age is its other main concern , with Marrakech ( perceived by Walter entirely through the lush vagueness of travel-brochure prose ) standing for the life of exotic , unfettered opportunity that becomes increasingly unattainable . |
| 12 | But these were succeeded by bright little bandboxes of social aspiration ; newly painted doors , carriage lamps , an occasional hanging basket , the front garden paved to provide standing for the car . |
| 13 | Yesterday , two of them told The Northern Dr Clarke had not mentioned he was standing for the BNP , and that they would not have signed had he said so . |
| 14 | For instance ( using the familiar Venn diagrams ) it will be said that the underlined phrase of ( 11 ) ( which is , incidentally , a zoologically correct statement ) owes its restrictive quality to the fact that there is an intersection between circle a , standing for the class of piranhas , and circle b , standing for the class of vegetarian creatures , and this intersection represents the beings denoted by the subject of the sentence : ( 11 ) vegetarian piranhas can be found in the Amazon ( 12 ) However , such implications are incorrect ; it is by no means necessarily true that the property instantiated by a restrictive adjective is to be ascribed to the entity qualified . |
| 15 | For instance ( using the familiar Venn diagrams ) it will be said that the underlined phrase of ( 11 ) ( which is , incidentally , a zoologically correct statement ) owes its restrictive quality to the fact that there is an intersection between circle a , standing for the class of piranhas , and circle b , standing for the class of vegetarian creatures , and this intersection represents the beings denoted by the subject of the sentence : ( 11 ) vegetarian piranhas can be found in the Amazon ( 12 ) However , such implications are incorrect ; it is by no means necessarily true that the property instantiated by a restrictive adjective is to be ascribed to the entity qualified . |
| 16 | The other two Tribunites are Clare Short — who won a strong vote last year — and Harriet Harman , health spokesperson , who is standing for the Shadow Cabinet for the first time . |
| 17 | The sentence had no effect on Barry 's eligibility to complete his current term ( due to expire on Jan. 2 , 1991 ) or to fulfil his stated intention of standing for the city council elections on Nov. 6 . |
| 18 | They perceive it as standing for the interest of society as a whole , and are constrained by this ideological view to tolerate its infringements of their sectarian interests , providing that these are not too severe . |