Example sentences of "[pron] stand as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stood as the Green Party candidate in May 1988 and 1989 . |
| 2 | She was defeated when she stood as a National Labour candidate in 1931 . |
| 3 | ' Another worker , who stood as a Conservative councillor , said she had encountered Mr Lawson at a reception last year and had been asked by the Chancellor why she had lost . |
| 4 | Mr Clark , who stood as a parliamentary candidate in Motherwell North at the last election , added : ‘ I very much welcome the council group decision to demonstrate its confidence in Alex Salmond . ’ |
| 5 | The resounding election victory of 21-year-old Bernadette Devlin , a student member of PD who stood as an anti-Unionist candidate , in the Mid-Ulster by-election on 17 April , was taken as affirmation of the minority 's support for Civil Rights movement . |
| 6 | They stand as a devastating comment on her view of Scotland , the one kingdom which was actually hers to govern . |
| 7 | They stand as the essential interface between strategy formulation and tactical decisions . |
| 8 | Only the spire of the church could be saved , and today it stands as a stark reminder of that devastating night in August 1989 . |
| 9 | Rather it stands as a nasty addition this winter to the equation which leads to accidents year in , year out . |
| 10 | The ‘ thick description ’ takes on a type of metaphoric quality : it stands as a symbolic indication of some wider social meaning within the culture which is elicited through critical interpretation . |
| 11 | It stands as a sympathetic appraisal by a critic who is trusting largely to his own intuitive sense of quality : |
| 12 | Although it stands as an important account of new anthropological theory and purports to throw a revealing light on the social organisation of Balinese society , its carefully organised narrative is also a good story arranged so the shifts between Geertz 's account of his gradual development as an aficionado of cockfighting and the development of his theory of the social significance of this sport merge . |
| 13 | GERALD ANNESLEY , one of Ulster 's most colourful landowners who has died aged 86 , caused a mild sensation in the general election of 1951 when , although a former chairman of the local Unionist party , he stood as a Protestant Irish Nationalist candidate for South Down . |
| 14 | In 1981 he was chairman of the Computer Retailers ' Association , and he stood as a local government candidate for Rother Valley in the 1987 General Election . |
| 15 | He stood as the Liberal Party candidate in Edinburgh in the 1966 and 1970 elections and joined the BNP two years ago . |
| 16 | In 1941 he stood as an independent candidate in four by-elections ; but although he retained his deposit on each occasion , there was to be no political comeback for this highly cantankerous patriot . |