Example sentences of "stand [adv] against the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Complicated interwoven crosses from Ethiopia vie with the elaborate dowry jewellery of the Turkomans of Afghanistan while the simple bold brasswork of West Africa stands coolly against the dense beadwork of Burma . |
| 2 | Man stands over against the awful otherness of God , by which his own existence is challenged , questioned and judged ; but in faith he finds the power nonetheless to live in that encounter with God by which each present moment becomes a meeting with eternity . |
| 3 | What is worse is that the caravans are painted white so that they stand out against the green landscape . |
| 4 | She standing up against the racial stereotype with purple hair . |
| 5 | It was a large split-level home , with unexpected staircases going , it seemed , in all directions , their wrought-iron banisters standing out against the pale-yellow broadloom which covered both stairs and floors throughout the house . |
| 6 | He was a fiery character of immense stubbornness who stood out against the new plans to merge his land into a co-operative pool that would benefit everyone . |
| 7 | The grass was shrivelled and blackened and the leafless branches stood out against the grey morning and seemed to reach skeletal fingers towards them . |
| 8 | Robert Walker , a soldier in uniform , was fighting his way through the crowd , a bunch of flowers and a marriage licence in his hand , wading against the human tide to the shining spot under the clock where Judy Garland stood , dressed in angelic white that stood out against the drab extras , waiting anxiously . |
| 9 | Several old barges , beached deliberately years before in an attempt to slow down the river bank erosion , stood out against the moonlit water like defiant skeletons . |
| 10 | There was a pathetic dignity about the old animal as she stood there against the mouldering timber of the partition , her eyes patient and undemanding . |