Example sentences of "larger than [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Appreciably larger than Sandwich Tern , adult distinguishable from Lesser Crested only by size , heavier and yellower bill and darker grey plumage , but immature apparently lacks black wing-bar. 19 in. ( 48 cm ) |
| 2 | Cartridge circuit fuses are larger than plug fuses , and are marked ‘ Made to BS1361 ’ . |
| 3 | In Hungary , Lake Balaton is larger than Lakes Geneva or Garda and is a well developed and long established holiday region . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The report , The Lost Land , says that Department of the Environment ( DoE ) statistics have failed to record the loss of 690 square miles of countryside , an area larger than Greater London , since the second world war . |
| 6 | At a depth of 16 metres he came across a larger than life size bronze foot sticking out of the sand that proved only to be the tip of a large area of buried statues dating from the fifth century BC to the fourth century AD . |
| 7 | ‘ He 's a larger than life person with the character to put it all behind him . ’ |
| 8 | She was like a larger than life fantasy that had just come true . |
| 9 | At COSMOS we feel that , to do it justice , this sensational larger than life attraction truly deserves one 's total and undivided attention . |
| 10 | The 64-year-old actor is probably best known for playing larger than life council labourer Selwyn Froggit on TV in the 1970s . |
| 11 | ‘ He was a huge man , a larger than life character , ’ Ufton added . |
| 12 | But make sure you pay attention not just to the basic impulses and enthusiasms , which are sound and fine ; not just to the incidental portrait of a consummate mountaineer in the passages about Dave Breashears ; but also to a strange sort of instinctual third dimension which Blessed 's larger than life character seems to entice into play : |
| 13 | Gregg was a larger than life character on and off the field — but he 's not about to put any pressure on his son . |
| 14 | , intake operator , is a larger than life character and is extremely popular around the maltings , which is just as well when you see his size ! usually takes the barley samples and generally attends to the drivers . |
| 15 | He was a very much larger than life character who it is understood , although it may not be strictly true , was sacked three times by his company for which he worked as a salesman . |
| 16 | ( My great grandfather lived here and he was a larger than life character . |
| 17 | VAUX chairman Paul Nicholson has always had a larger than life attitude to the manner in which he conducts his business . |
| 18 | He was an ebullient , larger than life denial of all that was Right : he chain-smoked and drank too much . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But Cooper 's figures also possess a larger than life boldness due not so much to childlike innocence but to the kind of confidence we imagine Eve and Adam had before the Fall , However , she is not confronting us with an easily gained optimism nor do her disembodied heads , upturned women and mild impassive eyes really evoke a vision of dream . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Margi 's stage persona is still a larger than life version of the Kirkby girl and strikes obvious chords with some of her audience . |
| 23 | Above the usual Fraggle style , the leaping around and smiling a lot stage presence , the Northampton four-piece have a frontman with a larger than life aura akin to Perry Farrell and Miles Hunt . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The show , organised by Thames Valley Police , has all the elements of a Christmas pantomime with larger than life characters and lots of audience participation . |
| 26 | Yes , my Aladdin 's cave in Finchley road was certainly a treasure chest full of wonderful lessons , and larger than life characters . |
| 27 | This is more than twice the size of Trevor Pinnock 's English Concert ( Archiv ) , for example , and substantially larger than Sigiswald Kuijken 's Petite Bande ( Deutsche Harmonia Mundi ) . |
| 28 | Larger than Wood Sandpiper , and differing especially in its conspicuous white rump contrasting strongly with dark upperparts and barred tip of tail , but much smaller than Greenshank ( p. 131 ) , which is paler above . |
| 29 | Within the first month of the battle the effect of this non-stop bombardment , by so mighty an assemblage of cannon , their fire concentrated within an area little larger than Richmond Park , had already established an environment common to both sides of the Meuse that characterised the whole battle of Verdun . |
| 30 | The Tanezrouft reg , further south , is larger than Great Britain and Ireland together . |