Example sentences of "[modal v] stand for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next day I received a visit from Humphrey Atkins , by then our Chief Whip , telling me in enthusiastic and forceful terms that I should stand for the leadership . |
| 2 | Benn joked to Ceauşescu that he should stand for the general-secretaryship of the Labour Party too ! |
| 3 | This had a range of meanings , but was based on the idea that an individual could stand for a race , or prefigure other individuals not yet born . |
| 4 | It was easier for Labour MPs and other party members to move to a new organization than to transfer to another party ; the SDP could stand for the memory of Attlee , Morrison and Gaitskell , and argue that the present-day Labour Party had moved away towards more extreme policies . |
| 5 | Parkin may stand for a seat on the new party executive . |
| 6 | The Panama canal was not opened until after the outbreak of war in 1914 , but may stand for the completion of the world sea communications system . |
| 7 | That 's including Chippingfield if you had seen it as we saw it when we came here you would recognise how much work has gone into building the town because I was on the the council then I was asked if I would stand for the council which was then only a parish council there was no urban district council that was n't formed for four or five years afterwards and of course , we had to fight for lights everything that , er that we needed we had to fight for because there was no lighting on Netteswell Road where our children were going to school , and there were little ones . |
| 8 | She came to me one day and asked me if I would stand for the council , which I did . |
| 9 | At this time Klaus announced that he would stand for the post of Czech ( rather than federal ) Prime Minister , a move described by the Independent of June 19 as the " clearest possible sign that the Czechs have finally given up on the federation which they had fought for " . |
| 10 | — two letters can stand for one sound ( the letter-pair " sh " stands for a single sound ) , and one letter can stand for a sequence of two sounds ( in our dialect , " o " in the word " no " stands for two sounds in sequence , a vowel first , followed by a " w " sound made with the lips ) ; |
| 11 | To hold that one G M B member should have more rights than another , to say that one member can stand for an election , but not another . |
| 12 | Both Mead and Vygotsky proposed that communication between the child and older children or adults provides the essential conditions for emergence of ‘ media-tion ’ , whereby a word or gesture can stand for an aspect of experience . |
| 13 | Oh er , anybody can stand for an M P |