Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such an analysis is so extensive that life moves on before the implementation is complete . |
| 2 | One does n't resent it so much when life does . |
| 3 | But , despite her comfort , she never forgets that other people do n't always have it so easy that life can be hard . |
| 4 | ‘ You probably have , only larger than life . |
| 5 | Just ordinary furniture like anyone would have I 'm surprised it is n't more glamorous somehow , only larger than life which is what you 'd expect I suppose |
| 6 | The legs are flailing wildly — tiny stretches of insect flesh — no thicker than a hair to my naked eye , but obviously larger than life to this poor , wretched creature , who had the misfortune to interrupt my writing of the BBC WILDLIFE Nature Essay 1991 to ( or not to be ) . |
| 7 | Until , as he had always known they would , the horsemen appeared , giant figures in steel armour , much larger than life , with great crested helmets dark against the sky . |
| 8 | Abu Sueir , was a pleasant station , well-established and well-run by one of the oldest group captains in the RAF , and the adjutant was none other than " Happy " Day or " Wings " Day perhaps one of the best known officers of the pre and postwar RAF , " Happy " was indeed a character much larger than life , and even today when I meet a fellow student from my course in the RAF Club , he related with tears streaming down his cheeks an incident when " Happy " was taking the course on rifle drill . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Politicians , however , were quite capable of making any assistance look somewhat larger than life and thus attempt to reap the last ounce of voter gratitude for their services . |
| 11 | They were so unhappy that life lost its perspective for them . ’ |
| 12 | It does seem that the best strategy for sufferers is to come to terms with their complaint : it is not crippling or life threatening , but is a chronic condition , like arthritis . |
| 13 | Elba remains largely unspoilt and life goes on in a traditional vein |
| 14 | More grave than life |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The theatre is always larger than life , is n't it ? |
| 17 | The opportunities offered by the Medau system become daily more valuable as life for so many people demands less and less physical activity . |
| 18 | But even though he strives to protect his privacy , Craig 's still larger than life at work , always joking , teasing and larking about . |
| 19 | Robert Maxwell is still larger than life even in death . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , it 's true that one is n't always sure that life can continue under its present auspices , but I am at the moment , ’ he said , ‘ and especially today . |
| 21 | She had no idea how long she stayed there , simply gazing into the beautiful sea-blue eyes which had become more important than life itself to her , but everything she saw there somehow made all of her doubts , all of her fears just slide away , leaving her lighter of heart than she could ever remember being . |
| 22 | Bill Shankly was only joking when he said football was more important than life and death . |
| 23 | He mentioned stuff about his family … and how football was nt more important than life or death ( Shankly ) . |
| 24 | What these contradictions add up to is the paradoxical point that the ‘ frozen moment of loveliness is more dynamic than the fluid world of reality only because it is frozen ’ , that art is more vivid than life only because it is not alive . |
| 25 | There 's a quotation here from one of the ladies ' magazines at the time : ‘ woman was given to man to be his better angel , to dissuade him from vice , to stimulate him to virtue , to make home delightful and life joyous , in the exercise of these gentle and holy charities , she fulfils her high vocation ’ — pretty inspiring stuff ! |
| 26 | What can be more precious than life itself and if one is youthful there is more of it . ’ |
| 27 | Then , one day , I had this horrifying realization that life at the office was more satisfying than life in our expensively furnished home in Surrey . |
| 28 | First we can be aware of the unnecessary layers of paper , cardboard and plastic used to make products larger and more glamorous than life , and avoid them . |
| 29 | It is also possible that life developed , and if the rate of evolution was about twice as rapid as on the Earth then intelligent beings may have been among the organisms roasted to death as the Sun 's luminosity rose , the small oceans evaporated , and the CO 2 emerged from the rocks . |
| 30 | Shrimpton was in the mid-forties , overweight , and slightly larger than life , a sociable type . |