Example sentences of "[vb -s] out [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | And he admitted : ‘ If keepers make a mistake it stands out like a sore thumb . |
| 7 | It stands out like a sore thumb . |
| 8 | Once they are included in the explanation participation drops out as an inessential part of many consent situations . |
| 9 | This — which several British critics have seen as a post-AIDS film — is postmodernist in its mixture of genres : it starts out as a straightforward melodrama and shifts into a horror or ‘ stalk and slash ’ genre . |
| 10 | It starts out with a familiar idea and then builds on it , making neater analogies and finer distinctions . |
| 11 | He starts out with a full clip of ammo , but watch out ( Beadle 's about ) , it 's limited — make sure you hit 'im first time . |
| 12 | Death Becomes Her is a glitzy , glossy affair which glides through its paces in vapidly enertaining Zemeckis style , but a movie which starts out with a huge talent to amuse loses its impetus . |
| 13 | The serious student of animal behaviour starts out with a basic premise , namely that every spot of colour , every strange posture , every tiny movement that an animal makes , has some special meaning . |
| 14 | This mode of political religious action no longer starts out from a universal centre and figure , such as the papacy , but rather from the national or local church within the state , whose ‘ magistrates ’ — Calvin 's term for lay political leaders — are ideally Christians of moral rectitude , who perform this duty as one ordained by God . |
| 15 | The meticulously clean rooms are of medium size , nicely furnished and decorated with telephone and T.V. The breakfast room is of a good size and looks out onto a small garden . |
| 16 | It is a ground-floor flat , one wall is a window , which keeps the place cold and which looks out onto a bare field , with two scaffolding poles and a tarmac patch . |
| 17 | The dining room has a thirty foot wall of glass which enables guests to view the attractive landscaped garden and which looks out to a small patio for guests to enjoy in the summer . |
| 18 | Appropriately enough , we met in the Hominid Room of the Natural History museum , a light spacious rectangular chamber with a glass wall on one side that looks out on a grassy park . |
| 19 | The cells multiply and the bud grows out in a paddle-like form . |
| 20 | Other public rooms here include a comfortable lounge-bar , with TV , where guests can relax and which leads out onto a pleasant verandah . |
| 21 | The bright bar leads out onto a large terrace at the front of the hotel . |
| 22 | Follow the obvious path leading north along the ridge as the path opens out into a wide track . |
| 23 | The Profitboss only sub-contracts out as a last resort . |
| 24 | ‘ I have a mic on my Vox AC30 and a direct which goes out into a Hi-Watt head , and that goes into a speaker simulator , which goes to the desk out front . ’ |
| 25 | A quarterly newsletter is distributed to several hundred members , and a monthly ‘ Spokesworker ’ goes out to a smaller group of committed activists . |
| 26 | A horse will soon become used to the excitement of a show provided that he goes out on a regular basis from an early age . |
| 27 | Pop concert goes out on a bad note |
| 28 | Mould , though , goes out with a sly nod towards the future . |
| 29 | But as Robins points out in a later paper , a wide variety of anti-social childhood behaviour predicts a wide variety of adult deviant behaviour , rather than , as some have claimed , particular behaviour being predictive of specific offences ( e.g. conduct disorder predicting property but not person offences ) . |
| 30 | The answer is one of two things — a Labour government which he can not influence for the good , or a Labour government which he turns out in a few months , provoking another election . |