Example sentences of "stand [adv prt] from the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it has reached the stage where Group 4 have now ‘ lost ’ Sir Norman ’ — Labour 's Frank Dobson on the announcement that the Tory chairman is to stand down from the board of Group 4 . |
| 2 | This crying , this wailing , this mass of thick air gathered from thousand upon thousand square miles of nothingness , scooped up , pushed and banked against every object which has the temerity to stand up from the surface of the earth ; this was weird , oppressive , invasive . |
| 3 | The Arts : Lenny stands back from the brink of bathos |
| 4 | THE CATHEDRAL at Lyon stands back from the bank of the Saone , and , from the other side of the river , is half hidden by bland blocks of flats . |
| 5 | B Once Fokine had demonstrated that mimed dance and danced mime were the best materials to use in ballets where individual characters had to stand out from the rest of the cast , and particularly when true love did not run smoothly , other choreographers. followed suit . |
| 6 | We had to stand back from the edge of the pavement as their wheels splashed along the teeming gutters . |
| 7 | In practice it is not always easy to stand back from the mass of information and choose a main message and a few submessages . |
| 8 | Here he was able to stand back from the onrush of western man and ask himself the real questions of life and meaning ; get his young life , full and successful as it had been , into perspective . |
| 9 | That demanded constant attention , and yet the Prime Minister must also be able to stand back from the pressure of events and think about the future . |
| 10 | ‘ I think that 's what makes Curve stand out from the rest of the pack , ’ asserts Alex , ‘ because all these other indie bands do n't seem to be interested in guitar music . |
| 11 | And what this section will do is stand back from the particularity of today ( though continuing to use it as an example ) and ask why economies develop such geographical variation and why their geographies are subject to change . |
| 12 | This mill was built of brick instead of stone like the Old Mill in the village , and the original six-storey building survives among the extensions built around it , with Arkwright 's peculiar staircase projection with Venetian and small semi-circular windows standing out from the sea of square-headed windows on either side , and with a cupola above . |
| 13 | At the same time the building of what were to become bastions , towers standing out from the line of the wall , enabled defenders to fire all round , and in particular laterally , against approaching men or machines , as the design for Bodiam Castle in Sussex , which , like Cooling Castle in Kent , was built at the time of the French invasion scares of the 1380s , clearly shows . |
| 14 | He stood out from the rest of the mob with his silver hair and stacked shoes . |
| 15 | A crane , the emblem of long life , stood out from the surface of the quartz , flanked by magpies , signifying good luck ; while encircling the top of the bottle was a spray of peonies , emblematic of spring and wealth . |