Example sentences of "stand [adv prt] against [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | What is worse is that the caravans are painted white so that they stand out against the green landscape . |
| 3 | But we do respect her bravery in standing up against a dreadful regime . |
| 4 | She standing up against the racial stereotype with purple hair . |
| 5 | This might have seemed merely the occupational hazard of the self-indulgent restaurateur , but for a manic edge contributed by the tightly-curled crop of hair , the thin cigar drooping from his wide mouth and the garishness of a turquoise tie standing out against a black suit and matching shirt . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The grass was shrivelled and blackened and the leafless branches stood out against the grey morning and seemed to reach skeletal fingers towards them . |
| 9 | The Irish colony of Knokvergence at Cable Street stood out against the newer buildings of Pennington . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |