Example sentences of "standing [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His penis was standing through the cotton slit , throbbing . |
| 2 | At the next elections to the Council , Wylie continued his protest by standing as a Protestant Unionist and he was elected . |
| 3 | John Browne , who is standing as a rebel Tory candidate against the official Conservative in Winchester , rejected yesterday a plea by five people who had been supporting him that he should stand down . |
| 4 | Holder , despite rave reports from Pakistan after standing as a neutral umpire in the series against India , has n't umpired another England Test since . |
| 5 | They were well placed to exert political pressure , for in 1753 Captain Robert Cunningham was the candidate for the parliamentary seat for this district , avowedly standing as a friend of the Duke of Argyll . |
| 6 | For a while John was active in politics , twice standing as a Liberal . |
| 7 | The lighting of one hundred beacons , from Jersey to the Shetland Isles , the street parties and special events and the climactic procession by the Queen along a processional route lined by one million people waving Union Jacks under a murky grey sky — all of this implied an attempt to reclaim something permanent and enduring a sense of national pride — which had been systematically eroded by Britain 's loss of standing as a world power , and by some dark and mysterious incoming tide which carried with it the flotsam of unemployment , inflation , rising crime and social decay . |
| 8 | In later life he expanded this social interest , even attempting to enter Parliament , standing as a candidate for East Worcestershire in 1874 , but his platform , based on proposals to deal with the health problems of prostitution near garrisons and naval establishments , attracted little support . |
| 9 | Ten minutes later , he was standing as a customer in another shop , the kind of shop that he 'd only previously ever visited in a raid . |
| 10 | The party 's chairperson , Alan Warren , who is standing as a local government candidate in the Castle ward , has hit out at planning restrictions on commercial development in the north of the city . |
| 11 | Regulation four is right to create an offence of standing as a candidate in more than one member state at the same election . |
| 12 | It is also right that there should be in new rule eight five , a declaration on the part of prospective E C candidates that contains details of nationality , address and last constituency in the home member state and evidence that the individual is not standing as a candidate in another member state . |
| 13 | He came to the door , said he was standing as a candidate , but did n't say he was from the BNP . |
| 14 | For what 's is worth , as a motorist , I may tell you I 'm thirty years standing , and I explained to the people when I phoned your office up , I 've had thirty years standing as a driver , I check my oil , I check my water , I lost no compression , no water . |
| 15 | It might seem that the primeval Fall underlies this poem 's events as surely as Venice underlies its epigraph , standing as the reality which underlies various writers ' interpretations . |
| 16 | The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was also standing as the man behind the desk read the slip of paper he had just been handed . |
| 17 | The actions were consolidated , the plaintiff 's action standing as the claim , the defendants ' claim for the commission being the counterclaim . |
| 18 | His final decision was possibly taken at the time of the war with Alaric , when he may have thought that there was propaganda value to be gained by standing as the defender of the catholic Church ; he was subsequently baptised , probably in 508 . |
| 19 | Three sixth formers are fighting the election Cathy Wimpenny is the Republican candidate , Stephen Edwards is the Democrat and Lee Barlow is standing as the Ross Perot-style Independent . |
| 20 | A maze of low stone walls bounded the twisting paths of the front lawn , and one wall of a former next-door cottage had been left standing as an ornament , with glassless windows . |
| 21 | The original Liberal Democrat candidate , Pamela Beasley , 47 , a local councillor , was de-selected following allegations of theft and she is standing as an independent under a People 's Party flag . |
| 22 | Hughes , 66 , alleges ballot-rigging and is defiantly standing as an independent against the Kinnockite Bob Ainsworth , a Jaguar shop steward and local councillor . |
| 23 | Standing as an Independent , Henry Hamilton Beamish came within 1181 votes of winning such a by-election in Clapham in June 1918 . |
| 24 | Occasionally a party is defied , and a rejected and disgruntled postulant insists on standing as an independent . |
| 25 | At the time of Dr. Arthur 's trial , a Mrs. Carr , who had been born without arms , was standing as an independent pro-life candidate in a forthcoming by-election . |
| 26 | Mr McGimpsey , whose brother Chris will be standing as an Ulster Unionist candidate in the Court ward , admitted last night : ‘ It is a bit of a blow . |
| 27 | The Peronist former Minister for Health and Social Action , Avelino Porto , received 31 per cent ; 7.5 per cent went to Fernando Pino Solanas , a film director standing as an " authentic " Peronist ; 6 per cent to Enrique Venturino , a former military officer and candidate of the Movement for Dignity and Independence ( Modin — led by a former lieutenant-colonel , Aldo Rico , who had staged abortive military rebellions in 1987 and 1988 — see pp. 35560-61 ; 36203 ) ; and 3 per cent to Héctor Polino of Socialist Unity ( US ) . |
| 28 | The Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) with 10.1 per cent secured one seat and an MPRP candidate , standing as an independent , won the remaining seat . |
| 29 | The incumbent President and former leader of the Slovene League of Communists , Milan Kucan , standing as an independent , was re-elected as President for a five-year term with 64 per cent of the vote . |
| 30 | ‘ As Scotland is little known to the greater part of those who may read these observations , it is not superfluous to relate that under the name Aberdeen are comprised two towns standing about a mile distant from each other , but governed , I think , by the same magistrates . ’ |