Example sentences of "[verb] out as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can remember willing him to jump out as a child . |
| 2 | Like an imprisoned animal , her vibrant coppery hair bounced out as if alive , tumbling in a glowing red river over her slender shoulders . |
| 3 | In a genre noted for its shoddiness and sensationalism , this playing memoir of a season with Millwall in the mid-1970s stands out as a truthful and often painful account of the player 's lot . |
| 4 | Rosalind Belben 's ‘ My sole feeling of happiness lies in the fact that no one knows where I am ’ stands out as a brilliant piece of writing , but the stories by Alison Fell , Tom Wakefield , Ian Breakwell , and Elizabeth Cook are also noteworthy , particularly the last about two women who send each other erotic messages by leaving little bite-marks on their mutual man 's body . |
| 5 | Through Santa Cruz and on towards San Francisco , whose sky-scraper-stacked skyline stands out as a silent rebuke to the Manhattanisation of the city , for which many residents blame ex-mayor and gubernatorial candidate Dianne Feinstein . |
| 6 | Goodhart-Rendel writing from the viewpoint of having altered his first plate-glass windowed house , Idsworth ( 1848–52 ) , Hampshire , found his elevations conventional and even perfunctory and in our own time even Howard Colvin found that ‘ not a single building stands out as a masterpiece ’ . |
| 7 | They ease gently , throbbingly through ‘ Kinky Afro ’ , but ‘ Loose Fit ’ stands out as the song that suits their current mood exactly ; slinky , elastic , swaying with a sexy guitar , it 's effortlessly groovy . |
| 8 | One man stands out as the architect of the Midland 's golden era : Sir Edward Holden . |
| 9 | In the US there have been extensive experiments with new forms of reporting and in Europe , Germany stands out as the leader in environmental reporting . |
| 10 | In Taylor 's reign , only Trevor Steven 's effort in Russia earlier this year from a Nigel Clough pass stands out as an example . |
| 11 | Star stayer Rahan Arc ( 9.15 ) showed a glimpse of his old form at Walthamstow on Thursday and stands out as the banker bet of the seven open races on an attractive Ramsgate card . |
| 12 | Nonetheless he stands out as a prophetic beacon , a fresh and radical thinker whose radicalism did not lie in attempting a consciously ‘ modern reinterpretation ’ of Christian faith , but in struggling afresh with the heart of the matter , and charting out a very different course from those being recommended on all sides around him . |
| 13 | Even so , the Bosnian Serbs ' rejection of the Vance-Owen peace plan on May 6th stands out as a spectacular triumph of greed and folly over common sense . |
| 14 | In Central America it stands out as a model of high quality provision drawn from a small resource base . |
| 15 | In a continent notorious for appalling prison conditions , where brutality and corruption are the norm , Nicaragua 's penal system stands out as a genuine effort to find a more humane yet affordable alternative . |
| 16 | Among the various mid-price CD versions of Smetana 's cycle of patriotic symphonic poems , Má vlast , Kubelík 's 1971 Boston/ DG disc ( 4/90 ) stands out as a performance , but the remastered sound is too brightly lit and not very opulent . |
| 17 | Of our three countries , Kenya stands out as the only one which has tried to manage economic development and contain inflation by selective price controls on individual items . |
| 18 | It was a tremendous privilege , and compared to lining up with hundreds of others in order to receive some trivial award like a knighthood , the conferment of the CH stands out as something of special quality and considerable pleasure . |
| 19 | Thus the very vibrancy of Impressionist or Pointillist paintings may well result from the discrimination of thousands of similar bits of colour data , all emerging as dots of similar hue , brightness , size or shape so that each momentarily stands out as a mini-figure against all the rest . |
| 20 | Although in that same table value for money stands out as the biggest area of dissatisfaction , only a minority of 16 per cent rated it negatively . |
| 21 | In the social history of twentieth-century Britain the Second World War stands out as a watershed ; the sheer scale and magnitude of the events that took place during those crucial six years seems to lend indisputable credibility to the view that modern wars are a major force behind progressive social change . |
| 22 | As we shall see more clearly after studying Chaucer 's other fabliaux and uses of fabliau , the Shipman 's Tale stands out as the particular instance when Chaucer uses a fabliau to place fabliau in a critical light , examining fabliau as an extant genre rather than exploiting it for some other purpose . |
| 23 | Having lacked the opportunity to create a new constitutional framework afresh from first principles , Britain now stands out as one of the few nations lacking such a document . |
| 24 | Mr Graham Crowley says the North-East stands out as an area that is creating opportunities for artists and many craft people encouraged to move to the region in readiness for Arts ‘ 96 . |
| 25 | That day still stands out as the greatest day in my football life . ’ |
| 26 | So if there 's one draw , for example , or one match which looks as though it stands out as an absolutely surefire score draw , and everybody puts it down , and it comes up as a score draw , then nobody gains anything . |
| 27 | Stuart Webb , who has been secretary , chairman and managing director during 21 years at Derby was unanimously voted out as associate director after constant conflict with the board . |
| 28 | The blunt-talking Yorkshireman has been voted out as chairman of the Umpires ' Association by his fellow pros . |
| 29 | ( Though in fact by this time , " tramping " was dying out as a practice and craft mobility with it . ) |
| 30 | A group of Irrawaddy dolphins , which appeared for the first time in Laos last year , are in danger of dying out as a result of the increasing use of gill nets by local fishermen . |