Example sentences of "standing for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a number of us here did a study of the 1984 Chesterfield by-election , where Tony Benn was standing for the first time , and asked constituents themselves what they felt about the broadcast coverage , they repeatedly used the word ‘ bias ’ to describe it . |
| 2 | Former leader Neil Kinnock is expected to top the NEC poll and Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown , standing for the first time , is also expected to sweep in . |
| 3 | We encountered this view at the beginning of this book , in the dialogues of Plato , where we found talk of ‘ the ascent to see the things in the upper world [ which ] you may take as standing for the upward journey into the region of the intelligible ’ . |
| 4 | No doubt as to where I would be standing for the eight-hour day , two miles out to sea . |
| 5 | The two trees : the phrase " good and evil " may well be a Hebrew idiom standing for the full range of moral knowledge represented by the two extremes . |
| 6 | The party chairman , Godfrey M'Mwereria , an environmentalist and former lecturer at Kenyatta University , said he would contest the forthcoming presidential elections , as well as standing for the parliamentary seat of Tigania in Meru district . |