Example sentences of "to stand for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was asked to stand for parliament , but declined , having no particular relish for party-politics ; he was too large-hearted a man for that . |
| 2 | principal female character in Shakespeare 's Hamlet ; her distraction comparable with Mrs Veneering 's on hearing that her husband is to stand for Parliament . |
| 3 | She joined the Labour party in 1918 and was asked to stand for Parliament ; she refused , feeling that she could accomplish more through journalism . |
| 4 | Although women over thirty gained the vote in 1918 , there was some doubt as to whether women were eligible to stand for Parliament . |
| 5 | Though making no attempt to stand for Parliament in 1841 , he was again appointed storekeeper of the ordnance in Peel 's second ministry . |
| 6 | Indeed , Eleanor Rathbone condemned what she viewed as the selfishness of middle class women who , having got ‘ all they wanted for themselves out of the women 's movement when it gave them the vote , the right to stand for Parliament and the local authorities , and to enter the learned professions ’ , then sat back . |
| 7 | Compare the supply of aspirants willing to stand for Parliament with the demands of pa when adopting candidates for local constituencies . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , my dear , ’ he said , pressing his knees against Amaranth 's , ‘ so it 's your intention to stand for Parliament ? ’ |
| 9 | Arnold was of Tom Arnold 's circus , and his post as the vice-chairman of the party in charge of candidates made him a target of all those who were eager to stand for Parliament . |
| 10 | ( 8 ) Where the prospective parliamentary candidate has been selected and subsequently intimates his or her intention not to stand for parliament in the constituency as the Labour Party candidate at the next election , the procedure set out in section ( 3 ) of this clause shall ( subject to section ( 4 ) of this clause ) be forthwith set in motion again . |
| 11 | THE only Football Supporters candidate ever to stand for Parliament has issued his touchline manifesto to the North-East 's election candidates . |
| 12 | For , on the one hand , they dispensed valuable resources : opportunities for lamb-barrel politics were an incentive to people to participate in popular democracy , to stand for election to a committee , even if they doubted its suitability for managing a complex hierarchical organization . |
| 13 | By the 1890s it was the established practice for Nonconformist ministers , along with local clergymen , to stand for election to the Boards . |
| 14 | We will propose appropriate Parliamentary reforms to ensure that the House of Commons conducts its business more efficiently and effectively , taking into account the benefits of modern technology , the increasing constituency demands upon Members of Parliament and the need to attract more women to stand for election . |
| 15 | They were , almost without exception , young scions of old notable families of the towns they now represented , persuaded by their families to stand for election in order to maintain the family interest . |
| 16 | Political citizenship rights , notably the right to vote and to stand for election , were won in the nineteenth century and the early twentieth as the Representation of the People Acts extended the franchise by stages until universal adult suffrage had been achieved . |
| 17 | This had implications both for service delivery and for the recruitment of black staff — not to mention the encouragement of black people to stand for election to the councils . |
| 18 | He flatly rejected the pleas of Aung San to stand for election . |
| 19 | Anthony Wedgwood-Benn renounced his peerage in order to stand for election to the House of Commons . |
| 20 | An ardent but always non-violent feminist , she campaigned vigorously for women 's rights , fought hard to improve rudimentary state education and medical services , and was one of the first women to stand for election to a borough council after the passing of the Qualification of Women Act in 1907 . |
| 21 | When in 1861 Louisa Twining proposed to a government Select Committee that women should be allowed to stand for election as Poor Law Guardians , she agreed that they should not interfere in the male province of finance and administration , and should not have any say over the treatment of male paupers . |
| 22 | The right to stand for election still remained restricted to Matai . |
| 23 | Prime Minister Mouloud Hamrouche , who was to stand for election for the first time , said that the ruling National Liberation Front ( FLN ) might consider entering into a coalition with one of the secular opposition parties , either before or after the election . |
| 24 | Of the 20 Cabinet ministers and ministers of state in the outgoing government to stand for election only four were returned . |
| 25 | The Fono is elected by universal suffrage for up to three years , although the right to stand for election remains confined to members of the Matai ( elected clan leaders ) . |
| 26 | The opposition was further alienated by a clause in a government decree law of Aug. 22 governing the eligibility of candidates representing unregistered political parties , independent organizations and alliances to stand for election to the CCD . |
| 27 | His retirement made Rawlings constitutionally eligible to stand for election , and on Sept. 19 , while addressing a large rally in Cape Coast , he announced that he had accepted an invitation by the National Democratic Congress ( NDC ) to stand as the party 's candidate in the presidential elections scheduled for November 1992 . |
| 28 | The exclusion of public servants has an acceptable rationale to reinforce it ; they are free to resign their positions should they wish to stand for election . |
| 29 | Schools in all but a few pockets of the county are expected to find enough people willing to stand for election in September when 1,600 governors are due to be appointed . |
| 30 | AT THE Scottish Labour women 's conference in Perth last year , one delegate caused hoots of laughter when she described her attempt to stand for election to the district council . |