Example sentences of "stand [adv] for [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Grosz was the only senior politician yesterday with the courage to stand up for Communism in front of a hostile audience . |
| 2 | At the election he stood as the architect 's architect , pledged to stand up for quality of design . |
| 3 | For example , New York 's firemen oppose any attempt at flexible rostering ; they commonly stand by for duty over a 48-hour period each week , and then moonlight on other days . |
| 4 | Ms Hutchison did not boost her case , however , by asserting in a recent televised debate that she is ‘ a fighter ’ who will stand up for Texas in the Senate . |
| 5 | I could stand here for hours on end |
| 6 | Government were to be warmly congratulated for standing up for Britain at Brussels . |
| 7 | I like a bit of dominant , you know standing up for people in my woman . |
| 8 | The Labour party has form in standing up for secrecy in local government , in opposing the publication of school results or of any other kind of league table . |
| 9 | I know , but it 's standing there for ages in the cold is n't it ? |
| 10 | He did not understand my right hon. Friend 's point about how the Government have stood up for consumers by introducing competition and the right kind of legislation . |
| 11 | Certainly he never made any secret of his Conservative past , having twice stood unsuccessfully for parliament among the miners of County Durham , where his air of a slightly lost rural dean can hardly have been an asset . |
| 12 | Stood in for Hereward at matins occasionally . ’ |
| 13 | Engholm , entered the Bundestag in 1970 , was seen as more centrist , northern and closer to the trade union movement than his rival Oskar Lafontaine , who stood unsuccessfully for Chancellor in 1990 and declined the leadership of the party at that time [ ibid . ] . |