Example sentences of "which stand [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus there is a tendency , if we once accept a sharp distinction between good as means and good as end , to see the point of life in those leisure activities , or at least in activities which stand apart from the main work of the world , such as high culture and very private personal relations . |
| 2 | Around the margins of the hill , the termites construct tall , thin-walled chimneys which stand out from the sides like ribs . |
| 3 | Corinth on the other hand had kept its vase-painting on a small scale ; and the tradition of an early Corinthian school of painters is borne out by certain vase-paintings which stand aside from the rest : not in scale ( indeed they are often miniature work ) but in composition and colour . |
| 4 | The urge to succeed and be competitive was stronger in some of us than in others , and although the section was theoretically united there was a faction which stood apart from the rest . |
| 5 | In some cases even those more conservative chapels which stood aside from the changing fashions made notable contributions to their own town 's architecture . |
| 6 | It was the worn-down plug of an old volcano which stood out from the lowland plain . |
| 7 | The village school , now quiet behind its white palings in the morning sunshine , was next in the row , and beside it was a well-built house of Cotswold stone which stood back from the green . |