Example sentences of "who stood [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Controversial priest Fr Pat Buckley was also among the losers , losing his seat to another independent , Robert Lindsay Mason , who stood as a 1990s candidate , advocating more rave parties for young people . |
| 2 | ' Another worker , who stood as a Conservative councillor , said she had encountered Mr Lawson at a reception last year and had been asked by the Chancellor why she had lost . |
| 3 | Mr Clark , who stood as a parliamentary candidate in Motherwell North at the last election , added : ‘ I very much welcome the council group decision to demonstrate its confidence in Alex Salmond . ’ |
| 4 | The resounding election victory of 21-year-old Bernadette Devlin , a student member of PD who stood as an anti-Unionist candidate , in the Mid-Ulster by-election on 17 April , was taken as affirmation of the minority 's support for Civil Rights movement . |
| 5 | He touched the black enamelled visor of his helmet in answer to the salute of the red-coated sentry who stood outside an expensive front door , then cantered on through Brussels ' fashionable streets until he reached a large house on the rue de la Blanchisserie . |
| 6 | Thus Aquinas , who stood in a long tradition which came to him through the teachings of the early canonists summed up in Gratian 's Decretum ( 1140 ) , was clear that every state had both the right and the duty to defend itself , its legitimate existence , and its rights when these could be legally proved ( ‘ It is legitimate to oppose force with force ’ , as Justinian 's Digest put it ) . |
| 7 | Thus I do not for example think that there could be a human person ( which Christians must proclaim ) who stood in a different relationship to God than do all other human beings . |