Example sentences of "stands out [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Her education was heavily concentrated on languages , Latin , Spanish and Italian , even probably some Greek ; among her formal Latin letters , written as exercises , one stands out with ironic interest , for it was addressed to John Calvin .
2 By contrast with the calculating prose of the bawd , listing the attractions of his new acquisition , Marina 's verse stands out with greater pathos ( IV.ii.64–6 ) .
3 During the last few years , we have begun to learn something of these mothers ' true feelings from the women who suffered the regime at first hand : what stands out in such accounts is the emotion which is still generated in the mother by her own memories .
4 This stands out in stark contrast to the four-speed 'box in the 500SL we tested last December .
5 Although it is the mood disturbance that stands out in affective psychosis , individuals who meet the criteria for either the ‘ unipolar ’ or the ‘ bipolar ’ form ( as they are sometimes called ) sometimes also show features reminiscent of schizophrenia , as we shall see for several of the subjects evaluated in this book .
6 Surely the way of transgressors is hard , and stands out in striking contrast to the ways of the Lord , which are experienced by those who walk therein to be pleasant and peaceful .
7 The car 's fifteen years old , it stands out in all weathers , and the undercoat 's still intact . ’
8 Prominence is the related psychological notion : Halliday defines it simply as " the general name for the phenomenon of linguistic highlighting , whereby some linguistic feature stands out in some way " . "
9 She almost has a three D effect , I er , you know her face really stands out from that background .
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