Example sentences of "[adv] stand for the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Taylor says he thought long and hard before deciding not to stand for the Conservatives in Cheltenham again . |
| 2 | The Official Secrets Act remains substantially intact , but it now has to be read with the additional defences available under the new legislation , happily with a pendant attached deriving from the Aitken case that juries will not stand for the use of oppressive legislation in cases of mild divulgence , and confidentiality has been confirmed as being available where secret information is breached without official justification . |
| 3 | The Conservative Party has always stood for the protection of the citizen and the defence of the rule of law . |
| 4 | Thus , for example , the Labour Party in Britain supposedly stands for the redistribution of wealth , the maintenance of a national health and social security system , considerable government intervention in the economy and so on . |
| 5 | At the mere mention of a coat , she sits , eyes closed , nose pointing upwards to have it slipped on , then stands for the belt to be fastened . |