Example sentences of "standing for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | None of the sample group were asked to name the candidates standing for the Liberal Democrats , Green Party and British National Party . |
| 3 | Among the candidates is Alessandra Mussolini , granddaughter of Il Duce , standing for the neo-fascist MSI party in Milan . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | No doubt as to where I would be standing for the eight-hour day , two miles out to sea . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |