Example sentences of "[noun] stand for [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before his death his wife Senator Madeleine Z. Bordallo had announced her intention to stand for Governor in the November 1990 elections . |
| 2 | AT THE Scottish Labour women 's conference in Perth last year , one delegate caused hoots of laughter when she described her attempt to stand for election to the district council . |
| 3 | Though making no attempt to stand for Parliament in 1841 , he was again appointed storekeeper of the ordnance in Peel 's second ministry . |
| 4 | Of the directors standing for re-election at the Annual General Meeting , Mr J N Sheldrick and Mr I G Thorburn have two year service contracts . |
| 5 | When two Whigs and one Tory stood for Hampshire in 1705 , only 201 out of 3,517 freeholders voting split their votes ( 5.7 per cent ) , whilst 724 plumped for the single Tory candidate . |
| 6 | They were , almost without exception , young scions of old notable families of the towns they now represented , persuaded by their families to stand for election in order to maintain the family interest . |
| 7 | It is suggested that the first unifying theme for 1992 should be ‘ The work of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh ’ , and that work should start on preparing a modular exhibit , parts of which can be convertible to form smaller mobile exhibition stands for erection at other venues . |
| 8 | This had implications both for service delivery and for the recruitment of black staff — not to mention the encouragement of black people to stand for election to the councils . |
| 9 | Another common form of torture at the Compound involves forcing the detainee to stand for hours on one leg , the other being tied to a door handle . |
| 10 | Might this type have been a symbol of the League : Penelope or Electra awaiting their deliverer standing for Hell as ( or Ionia ) in bonds ? |
| 11 | Other requirements are more mundane , and include money in order to provide hymn and song books , instruments and music stands for churches in which such necessities are not taken for granted . |
| 12 | The centre stands for compromise between president and parliament — and compromise no longer seems a solution to their bitter war . |
| 13 | Purified Dcm enzyme ( wild-type or Cys177Ser mutant ) was incubated with various oligonucleotide hybrids as indicated ( asterisks stand for presence of a [ 32 P ] 5'-endlabel ) . |
| 14 | Anthony Wedgwood-Benn renounced his peerage in order to stand for election to the House of Commons . |
| 15 | An ardent but always non-violent feminist , she campaigned vigorously for women 's rights , fought hard to improve rudimentary state education and medical services , and was one of the first women to stand for election to a borough council after the passing of the Qualification of Women Act in 1907 . |
| 16 | CIMA , an original signatory , reports that in the first year it has ‘ set up an informal network to encourage women to stand for office on the Council ’ . |
| 17 | In 1812 he accepted an invitation to stand for Liverpool at the election with his friend Henry Brougham ( later Baron Brougham and Vaux , q.v . ) . |
| 18 | The letters stand for Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults . |
| 19 | When elections were held in Maine to elect the state 's senators in 1978 , Hayes E Gahagan stood for office on a strong right-wing , no nonsense ticket : abortion , women 's rights and similarly liberal measures found little sympathy in his campaign . |
| 20 | The opposition was further alienated by a clause in a government decree law of Aug. 22 governing the eligibility of candidates representing unregistered political parties , independent organizations and alliances to stand for election to the CCD . |
| 21 | Commentators suggested that the attempt had had the support of wealthy former politicians , whose ambitions had been foiled by Babangida 's refusal to allow the " old guard " of politicians to stand for office on the return to party politics . |