Example sentences of "[adj] as life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of what we know has been taught to us as children , and , as children , we have adopted ignorance and prejudices which have become more and more fixed as life goes on . |
| 2 | He had wasted no time , the body was almost warm as life , only no breath in him , so we let all alone until morning . |
| 3 | When the bass cuts in we 're in dirty funk horizons , and even if you ca n't make out what 's being said , it sounds as urgent as life . |
| 4 | He moved on to the dome , which you must imagine like the magic covers you have seen in your drawing-room under which dwell all sorts of brilliant little birds , as natural as life on their branches , or flights of mysterious moths and butterflies . |
| 5 | There were the words , as large as life and often twice as sane . |
| 6 | Hazlitt : large as life , twice as saneENGRAVING : THOMAS BEWICK |
| 7 | Sir Christopher Wren sits behind his desk , large as life and at least as natural , until a cloth is draped over the leather bound book concealing the projector , and his head is revealed as a white splodge which takes 80 hours of modelling . |
| 8 | Large as life and twice as natural . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Hello , duckie , so here we are large as life and twice as handsome . |
| 10 | Yet here they were , as large as life — Surkov with his long yellow hair and Rozanov with his attenuated face and his baldness — clearly the living people with whom I had boozed and improvised in Moscow , so long ago . |
| 11 | Oh , Lee , you 're as large as life . |
| 12 | They were large as life recreations from the EA Hockey game I 'd been playing all week . |
| 13 | No , there it was , as large as life in capital letters : To MR LUDOVIC KENNEDY , BBC TELEVISION STUDIOS . |
| 14 | Jack Hayden obviously has a very close affinity with William Terris ' ghost because when he made a purposeful visit to Covent Garden Station recently he saw him ‘ as large as life ’ , as if waiting to welcome him back . |
| 15 | As large as life and death , both funny and sad — and not a little dangerous . |
| 16 | His range of interests is as large as life : births , marriages , deaths , quarrels , reconciliations , rhetoric , religion , cultivation , animal husbandry , home-crafts , politics — all claim his attention and are ( or should be ) faithfully reported — warts and all . |
| 17 | Pupils ' paper art show is large as life |
| 18 | I looked up — he was standing nearby , large as life . |
| 19 | He had been standing large as life beside Lady Usk , and it was plain that he knew her identity . |
| 20 | as large as life . |
| 21 | Andrew come , just come out as large as life . |
| 22 | The opportunities offered by the Medau system become daily more valuable as life for so many people demands less and less physical activity . |
| 23 | Life under the bamboo is just as trite as life in the city where Doris , Klipstein , and Krumpacker exchange their polite , meaningless words . |
| 24 | In exactly the same way , the image of the lover can be preserved unchanged as long as life endures ; rather , the image can be enhanced and made more perfect . |
| 25 | The effect of that correlation between the production of each unit of living matter and the corresponding production of a unit of ‘ goodness ’ , each ‘ event ’ contributing to the ultimate goal of a happy humanity , will operate as long as life persists . |
| 26 | If it is improbable that any further major developments will come from this stock , it is also unlikely , on the evidence of the last six hundred million years , that the group will disappear as long as life remains possible at all in the seas of the world . |
| 27 | Such a differentiation could be as fundamental as life 's ability to reproduce . |
| 28 | There was more than the selection of the team to the boycott of a Test match by a people to whom the game has always been almost as precious as life itself but it again highlighted the fragile nature of West Indies cricket . |
| 29 | This is because our movements slowly become stereotyped as life goes on and we tend to move in a way that feels ‘ right ’ to us . |
| 30 | Richard says he started ski-ing on the coast and then one day went out with skies and that 's how he started barefoot … he says three years ago he stopped competing as life or death and just goes out to enjoy himself |