Example sentences of "large than [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which incidentally makes it larger than agriculture . |
| 2 | Cartridge circuit fuses are larger than plug fuses , and are marked ‘ Made to BS1361 ’ . |
| 3 | Clara did not understand this story , but it seemed to her to tell of an emotion a size larger than pathos . |
| 4 | Its 100-watt power supply is larger than Sun 's . |
| 5 | Of course she feels strongly that as 65 per cent of women in Britain are actually larger than size 14 , clothing manufacturers ignore them at their peril . |
| 6 | Because the data were easily convertible into numerical form , it was a straightforward exercise to seek correlations and larger than chance differences in perception between first and third year students , and student and employer samples . |
| 7 | We found that the RAP74 C-terminal deletions larger than r74(1–136) and the N-terminal deletions larger than r74(205–517) were consistently contaminated with two major NH 2 -terminal fragments of sizes around 20 and 30kDa . |
| 8 | The theatre is ‘ larger than life ’ , not in terms of physical scale , but because movements and speech are comparatively emphatic and intense , even when a play simulates everyday natural surroundings . |
| 9 | The theatre is always larger than life , is n't it ? |
| 10 | Yes , the stage is larger than life and it is about emotions that are big enough to wrap round you . |
| 11 | It is larger than life , more real than truth , dramatic and daring , perceptive and flowing , and , significantly , full of paradox and ambiguity . |
| 12 | It 's larger than life in every way . |
| 13 | She was larger than life , she had seen the world , she was game for anything , she was jolly and vibrant , spoke her mind ; all in all , she was fun to be with . |
| 14 | Pop is un-natural , larger than life and insistent enough to make of itself an inevitable pad of the landscape , like a motorway , or pollution . |
| 15 | Almost six feet eight inches ( 2 metres ) tall , he seemed larger than life in most of his actions , blond , handsome , with great charisma that was much better suited to the Test arena than to the county grind ; a Test batting average of 40 compared to a career average of 31 shows this perfectly . |
| 16 | When the stumps only come up to your knees you have to be larger than life . |
| 17 | He was an ebullient , larger than life denial of all that was Right : he chain-smoked and drank too much . |
| 18 | Then , larger than life , so vivid she might almost have reached out and touched herself , there she was , transformed , hardly recognizable : teeth bared in a grin of manic glee , her eyes white-hot and blazing like a berserk android in a film she had seen once . |
| 19 | Believe everything you hear about Texans : they are larger than life : noisy , and inexhaustibly friendly . |
| 20 | The simple story of a mentally handicapped child or adult growing up would not be considered dramatic enough for fictional representation ; the drama must focus on a series of events which create a larger than life situation , which will play on the emotions of the viewers . |
| 21 | The Smiths have never really conformed to the pop ideal , being larger than life but twice as monotonous , although some would disagree . |
| 22 | In the cameos of street life , certain characters appeared larger than life , as the source of ritualized conflict . |
| 23 | He was , of course , released , not at all diminished on this occasion but as ever , larger than life Nature ( BBC2 , 27 January ) , in the third of its 10 programmes and already looking well established and aware of its duty as a news programme , intercepted him at 2 am at Bahrein on his flight home . |
| 24 | Worrying about your problems , which seem larger than life at that time of night , is hard to resist . |
| 25 | ‘ Like the man , the house and its contents are bold and larger than life , ’ said Sotheby 's director James Miller . |
| 26 | ‘ He was a huge man , a larger than life character , ’ Ufton added . |
| 27 | And their larger than life goalkeeper Joe Paladino , born in St Helens of Scilian parents , admitted : ‘ Altrincham 's Cup tradition is always at the back of our minds . |
| 28 | But if the pairing still seems unlikely , bear in mind that both are extrovert , larger than life and indefatigably self-confident , with two of the hardest-working mouths in the media . |
| 29 | And people going on seaside holidays would have forgotten how stations had once been larger than life , almost ; places of meeting and parting , from which dusty , crowded trains had borne servicemen and women to who knew where . |
| 30 | ‘ He 's a larger than life person with the character to put it all behind him . ’ |