Example sentences of "[prep] stand [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were talking about the National Executive Committee and she was thinking of standing for the women 's section . |
| 2 | This might seem artificial to those who have not had the joy of standing on the fells and watching this happen . |
| 3 | Instead of standing on the treads , they ran down . |
| 4 | Aung San Suu Kyi , the most prominent opposition figure in Myanma , was on Jan. 16 banned from taking part in general elections scheduled for May 1990. ln late December 1989 U Nu , a former Prime Minister , had also been banned from standing in the elections [ see p. 37123 ] . |
| 5 | The Leningrad city and regional Communist Party first secretary and leading conservative , Boris Gidaspov , had been the most prominent local party leader to ignore party recommendations and had refrained from standing in the elections to the Russian Supreme Soviet , having apparently anticipated the kind of defeat inflicted at the polls on March 4 and 18 on many other Russian city and regional party secretaries . |
| 6 | Only those convicted of criminal offences and President Ibrahim Babangida himself remain banned from standing in the elections . |
| 7 | Mr Chairman I would like to move the resolution in standing in the Conservatives ' name I would say that I would hope that erm the other side would er join with us in voting that through and certainly have no problem with the relevant resolution that Mr put forward . |
| 8 | They begin with simple movement exercises such as standing with the hands on the hips and very slowly rotating the head from right to left , then reversing the procedure . |
| 9 | But you used to get in trouble for standing on the seats ? |
| 10 | 29 A monkey tries to reach a branch 5½m above the ground by standing on the shoulders of an elephant 4 ¼m high . |
| 11 | I decided to minimize my presence by standing in the shadows much further away from table than I might usually have done . |