Example sentences of "[be] stand for [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Knight said in a statement he would now be standing for re-election to Essex County Council as a Community Representative . |
| 2 | Nor will he be standing for election as Institute vice president this year . |
| 3 | Michel Noir , the dashing young mayor of Lyons , and Michèle Barzach , an ex-minister of health and a former protégée of Jacques Chirac , the RPR leader , are standing for re-election as independents against official RPR candidates . |
| 4 | In Hereford and Worcestershire , Conservatives control education decisions , but only by the casting vote of the chairman , and HE 'S standing for re-election as an independent in the county elections , because he 's unhappy about |
| 5 | Mr Noir , Mrs Barzach and a third rebel RPR deputy , Jean-Michel Dubernard ( who is standing for re-election against Mr Noir 's son-in-law in Lyons ) , claim they have no desire to form a new party , despite their launch this week of a glossy 35-page ‘ Contract for a New Democracy ’ , which bears all the hallmarks of a party manifesto . |
| 6 | A similar letter ( from the Chairman ) should also be sent to anyone who , in future , is standing for election to the Executive . |
| 7 | Prime Minister Mouloud Hamrouche , who was to stand for election for the first time , said that the ruling National Liberation Front ( FLN ) might consider entering into a coalition with one of the secular opposition parties , either before or after the election . |
| 8 | This comes out well in The Short Guide to Electioneering , a pamphlet Quintus Cicero wrote for his brother , the Cicero , when he was standing for consul in 63 BC . |