Example sentences of "[adj] than life [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who had this kind of machine behind them must be important , so it had the effect of presenting him to the public as this bigger than life pop star which , if you look at his record sales at the time , he was n't , but he was becoming a media myth , some of this due to his own talent and some of it due to the MainMan hype machine . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's a larger than life person with the character to put it all behind him . ’ |
| 4 | She was like a larger than life fantasy that had just come true . |
| 5 | At COSMOS we feel that , to do it justice , this sensational larger than life attraction truly deserves one 's total and undivided attention . |
| 6 | The 64-year-old actor is probably best known for playing larger than life council labourer Selwyn Froggit on TV in the 1970s . |
| 7 | ‘ He was a huge man , a larger than life character , ’ Ufton added . |
| 8 | 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 : |
| 9 | Gregg was a larger than life character on and off the field — but he 's not about to put any pressure on his son . |
| 10 | , 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ( My great grandfather lived here and he was a larger than life character . |
| 13 | VAUX chairman Paul Nicholson has always had a larger than life attitude to the manner in which he conducts his business . |
| 14 | He was an ebullient , larger than life denial of all that was Right : he chain-smoked and drank too much . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Margi 's stage persona is still a larger than life version of the Kirkby girl and strikes obvious chords with some of her audience . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 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 show , organised by Thames Valley Police , has all the elements of a Christmas pantomime with larger than life characters and lots of audience participation . |
| 22 | Yes , my Aladdin 's cave in Finchley road was certainly a treasure chest full of wonderful lessons , and larger than life characters . |
| 23 | Human figures vary in size from more than life size down to only 3 or 4 centimetres in the so-called Miniature Frescoes . |