Example sentences of "[pron] stand for [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the previous election I stood for election to a United Kingdom Parliament , as did the hon. Gentleman . |
| 2 | In nineteen sixty six I stood for election of the national organizer and was successful and joined the head office in Glasgow in May nineteen sixty six . |
| 3 | erm One of the reasons is that , unlike the British situation , you do n't have to resign if you stand for election as a Member of Parliament in France . |
| 4 | IRRESPECTIVE of what political views they hold , those who stand for election in Northern Ireland require a lot of courage and conviction . |
| 5 | She stood for hours behind him , seeing him sketch , then stop and change what he had drawn . |
| 6 | We stand for freedom of the individual . |
| 7 | We stand for solidarity between workers of all races and colours and we are opposed and must stop unscrupulous politicians and racist groups using the race issue to divide working people ! |
| 8 | The and their self-opinionated Premier , Jacques Delores , must be told clearly that we stand for co-operation of Western style democracy , not the old Eastern block style of all encompassing socialist state with the dead hand of Brussels directing policies , as Moscow did with the U S S R. Freedom of the independent nation and people must confer . |
| 9 | We stand for people before property ’ ( Election leaflet 1920 ) . |
| 10 | While we stood for election alongside the men , a decision taken in July by Labour MPs to bring more women into prominent positions in the party ensured that at least three women would be elected . |
| 11 | They also accused Cafiero of seeking to keep himself in office by introducing a clause allowing him to stand for re-election in the 1991 gubernatorial elections . |
| 12 | The move follows the party 's constant refusal to let him stand for re-election as a Labour county councillor for Harwich , a decision which led to Mr Knight 's resignation from public life . |
| 13 | He was famous , people flocked to catch a glimpse of him , they stood for hours in the freezing cold in the hope that he would choose their hand to shake — for no better reason than an accident of birth . |
| 14 | However , " culture " and art " were inherently undemocratic since they stood for processes of feeling , understanding , and evaluation that were considered to have become lost to majority cultures and literacies . |
| 15 | ‘ The four As , sometimes they just put figure 4 and capital A. It stands for Action Against Animal Abuse . ’ |
| 16 | Anyone standing for election at local government level has to have an election agent . |
| 17 | One of the founders so admired the puritan he stood for Parliament in 1968 under the banner of the John Hampden New Freedom Party . |
| 18 | In April 1688 he stood for election to the Camden chair of history , but was beaten by his High Church rival , Henry Dodwell [ q.v. ] , whose canvasser Proast was . |
| 19 | For instance , when he stood for re-election in 1965 , his campaign was run by the " Association Nationale Pour le Soutien de l'Action du Général de Gaulle " , not by the UNR . |
| 20 | He made three attempts to enter Parliament for Tewkesbury before succeeding in 1918 , when he stood for Stroud as a coalition candidate . |