Example sentences of "stand out [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 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 | This micro-colony , set at 16,700ft , was supplied by air-drop , constructed entirely from discarded jerry-cans and covered with white parachute cotton so as to stand out like a sore thumb ! |
| 9 | In retrospect Bukharin 's ‘ Notes of An Economist ’ stand out as a clearsighted warning against the headlong rush to industrialisation — without due regard to proportionality — that was embarked upon with the FFYP . |
| 10 | from their first confrontation , when Titania appears wilfully aloof as Oberon tries to exert his authority , to their final reconciliation , they stand out as a true Fairy King and Queen , who are not beyond suffering the moods and emotions of ‘ We mortals here ’ . |
| 11 | Rarely did any Tiller Girl stand out in a glamorous way but stunning was always the word used to describe Violet Bryant nicknamed Ginger because of her glorious red hair , she could not possibly blend in with the others . |
| 12 | It stand out like a sore thumb sometimes when I 'm with them , I find people with handicapped children are real people , are people who are people with their children being , talking to them , instead of things that they can give them , you know . |
| 13 | For these reasons feminist values stand out like a sore thumb . |
| 14 | While a barred fish is inconspicuous against a striped , mottled , or blotched background such as vegetation , stones , roots etc , or areas of light and shade , a white , yellow , or orange fish will stand out as a sitting target for any passing predator . |
| 15 | Len 's mop of unruly fair hair always made him stand out in a crowded goalmouth but , even over 30 years later , he continues to stand out in the memories of Palace fans who saw him play for our club . |
| 16 | Well it may , it may stand out like a sore thumb , yeah . |
| 17 | ‘ He can only drive a specially-adapted car and that would stand out like a sore thumb if he was moving about doing something related to terrorism ’ , Mrs Drumgoole said . |
| 18 | After we had mounted the third hill , we found the country one continued village , tho' mountainous every way , as before ; hardly a house standing out of a speaking distance from another , and … we could see that almost at every house there was a tenter , and almost on every tenter a piece of cloth , or kersie , or shalloon , for they are three articles of that country 's labour ; from which the sun glancing , and , as I may say , shining ( the white reflecting its rays ) to us , I thought it was the most agreeable sight that I ever saw , for the hills , as I say , rising and falling so thick , and the valleys opening sometimes one way , sometimes another , so that sometimes we could see two or three miles this way , sometimes as far another ; sometimes like the streets near St Giles 's , called the Seven Dials ; we could see through the glades almost every way round us , yet look which way we would , high to the tops , and low to the bottoms , it was all the same ; innumerable houses and tenters , and a white piece upon every tenter . |
| 19 | This might have seemed merely the occupational hazard of the self-indulgent restaurateur , but for a manic edge contributed by the tightly-curled crop of hair , the thin cigar drooping from his wide mouth and the garishness of a turquoise tie standing out against a black suit and matching shirt . |
| 20 | No , it was n't this that got on his nerves , but the monotony of his surrounding , the long , long road through the camp , the huts going off here and there , the airfield dotted with little planes , looking like toys , the new hall that was used for entertainments , pictures and the church services , standing out like a sore thumb . |
| 21 | Closer than seemed possible , striking against an almost purple sky , we saw Kanchenjunga with a bright plume of snow standing out like a triumphal flag . |
| 22 | Yet these were islands standing out from a motionless sea : ten thousand individuals at the most . |
| 23 | At first it had amused her , because his Englishness could have stood out like a sore thumb , could have made them , indeed , appear inferior in some subtle way , less smooth , less cultured , provincial . |
| 24 | I believe at Glastonbury he would have blended well with the bill : at Finsbury Park he stood out like a sore thumb . |
| 25 | The absence of South Africa from both the 1987 and this year 's tournaments stood out like a sore thumb . |
| 26 | Even to the clear hearing of childhood Dada 's language was difficult — this time the word " bitch , a forbidden word , stood out like a sore thumb . |
| 27 | He stood out like a sore thumb for Sheff Utd , I think I even remember him from his Palace days . |
| 28 | When they played the song at London 's Borderline recently , it stood out like a radioactive rabbit on a nudist beach , primarily because most of the remainder of the set collapsed like a drunk deck of cards . |
| 29 | The sky was clearer than it had been for a week , and massive , but hardly elegant , Storskarfjell stood out like a white tent . |
| 30 | I am a standard , no-frills Earthling , but Goodney , in his white suit , suntan and sliding blond hair , stood out like a pink elephant among the sin-sick funeral directors lurking and cruising against the blood-coloured walls . |