Example sentences of "stands out [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The church tower stands out on the skyline in the middle of the village and the church dates from the 14th century , though extensively restored and to some extent rebuilt in Victorian times . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | One man stands out as the architect of the Midland 's golden era : Sir Edward Holden . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | What stands out about the development of transport in England between 1700 and 1815 is the creation from privately supplied capital of a system which , though not preconceived , was to prove sufficiently complementary in its supply and its operation to accommodate a modernising economy with a growing range of activities . |
| 7 | The list of Scottish footballers who have frequented their local turf accountant is longer than the starting lineup for the Grand National , but when it comes to identifying the ante-post favourite one player stands out above the rest . |
| 8 | The contemporary hero is one who stands out against the crowd to fulfil a personal destiny . |
| 9 | This convention , so standard in the comedies that it escapes notice ( especially in modern theatre-productions , where it is very rare to be able to hear any difference between prose and verse ) , stands out in the tragedies , where the clown 's reduction of the medium imposes an often uneasy mood of relaxation or verbal indulgence , outside the time of the tragic action , frustrating its rhythm . |
| 10 | On the road , however , in regular use , the Corrado VR6 is the one that stands out in the driver 's mind as the quickest , most comfortable , most civilised and most user-friendly of all . |
| 11 | But one line stands out from the rest — a tetrad only 512 cm long ( about 312 km on the ground ) . |
| 12 | Where WinEdit stands out from the rest is for programmers who use Microsoft C and SDK . |
| 13 | Therefore we er we needed to do something that stands out from the crowd if you like to bring this to people 's attention . |
| 14 | Asian women come from many different language groups , practise at least three main religions and have come to Britain in varied patterns of migration but ask them about their family life and the similarity of their experience stands out like the skeleton in an X-ray . |
| 15 | , John ( fl. 1649 ) , radical pamphleteer , stands out among the polemicists of the civil war period as an advanced thinker on constitutional law and theory with a talent for vivid prose . |
| 16 | The fact that no one is given command in the green movements does not mean that no one stands out among the ruck . |