Example sentences of "stand [adv] as [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Executive members of one of the party 's most active branches , Mossend , confirmed yesterday they had written to Mr Salmond asking him to stand down as a result of the MPs ' decision to strike a deal with the Conservatives in exchange for their votes on the Maastricht bill . |
| 2 | So far , Jansen has declined to stand down as a trustee . |
| 3 | If you can take a member of the family with you to stand in as a practise subject , so much the better . |
| 4 | The Artistic Merit Cup is annually awarded to the piece of marquetry that , presumably , stands best as a piece of interpretive art . |
| 5 | They do n't wish it to happen , but it becomes an impossibility almost for them to stand up to their rights , and Mr talks about rights and no rights is in abstract and we all know how difficult it is then to stand up as a minority when you 're surrounded by that majority , but I 've had personal representations |
| 6 | Train passengers used to stand up as a mark of respect when they passed Mother Volga , but not any more . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | In Central America it stands out as a model of high quality provision drawn from a small resource base . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | One man stands out as the architect of the Midland 's golden era : Sir Edward Holden . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In Taylor 's reign , only Trevor Steven 's effort in Russia earlier this year from a Nigel Clough pass stands out as an example . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The archbishop was too compromised to stand convincingly as a champion of the church against the crown . |
| 19 | It must be recalled that money stands here as the symbol of abstraction in human relations . |
| 20 | The Athena of the west ( fig. 66 ) stands almost as a kore , only her left foot is turned to the side . |
| 21 | They wanted me to stand by as a consultant . |
| 22 | Five Railway Cup medals with Ulster and representing Ireland stand out as the highpoints of Jim Reilly 's marvellous career . |
| 23 | The boundary-maintaining function just does not stand up as a function of crime or deviance . |
| 24 | ‘ It is already now clear that the 1980s will stand out as a decade of impressive improvement in economic performance , reversing a long-term trend of decline relative to other member countries . ’ |
| 25 | If there were to be an image of a woman in that book , that one picture would stand out as the exception . |
| 26 | He scored 218 runs , won the Man of the Match award and caught Imran while standing in as the understudy wicketkeeper for Kiran More . |
| 27 | They pushed on up the Mercery , standing aside as a group of debtors from the Marshalsea , linked by chains , moved through the crowd , begging for alms both for themselves and other inmates . |
| 28 | It is as if the Poet were tackling time face to face , confronting , wrestling with time , with his Friend standing apart as the prize in the competition . |
| 29 | Friends of Dr Owen say that his farewell advice to the nation — he has now stood down as an MP — is intended to avoid damaging the chances for his two remaining SDP colleagues , Rosie Barnes and John Cartwright , who are fighting to hold on to their south-east London seats . |
| 30 | The vote for the neo-Fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano-Destra Nazionale ( MSI-DN ) slipped back from 5.9 per cent in 1987 to 5.4 per cent — giving it 34 seats in the Chamber of Deputies — in spite of the fact that Alessandra Mussolini , the 28-year-old granddaughter of Benito Mussolini , stood successfully as a candidate for the MSI-DN in its Naples stronghold . |