Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [subord] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Normally when you walk on to that stage , you fill it with your presence — you 're larger than life , riding the crest of a wave . |
| 2 | Believe everything you hear about Texans : they are larger than life : noisy , and inexhaustibly friendly . |
| 3 | One explanation for all this brilliant caricaturing of college teachers might be that they really are larger than life , as portrayed . |
| 4 | Indeed , they are larger than life . |
| 5 | Like everything else in the States the helpings are larger than life and you very soon learn to resist the temptation to start the meal with an appetiser . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Hello , duckie , so here we are large as life and twice as handsome . |
| 8 | When the stumps only come up to your knees you have to be larger than life . |
| 9 | YOU may consider Les Dawson to be larger than life … but try his teddy bear George for size ! |
| 10 | One of the differences between life and writing is that writing always has to be believable whereas life is n't ! |
| 11 | The Smiths have never really conformed to the pop ideal , being larger than life but twice as monotonous , although some would disagree . |
| 12 | They were large as life recreations from the EA Hockey game I 'd been playing all week . |
| 13 | Some of the notable protagonists in the debate are John and Nuala Scarisbrook , of the ‘ Life ’ organisation , who believe that all abortion is wrong because life begins at conception . |
| 14 | It 's larger than life in every way . |
| 15 | 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 : |
| 16 | Yes , the stage is larger than life and it is about emotions that are big enough to wrap round you . |
| 17 | It is larger than life , more real than truth , dramatic and daring , perceptive and flowing , and , significantly , full of paradox and ambiguity . |
| 18 | In all but height ( five-foot-five ) Mr Niachos is larger than life . |
| 19 | Whether we are talking of the families portrayed in reading schemes and modern languages material , the heroes of novels chosen in English literature , or the personages selected as worthy of interest in history , the picture may be of a male who is larger than life , dominant and personality-projecting . |
| 20 | Pete Waterman is larger than life . |
| 21 | Pupils ' paper art show is large as life |
| 22 | The idea that life in the community is better than life in a hospital has , for decades , been an article of faith for mental health workers . |
| 23 | Iona is older than life itself . |
| 24 | ‘ Your race is less than life , ’ Jinkwa snarled . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The set-up was fine when life expectancy was barely thirty years , but with modern advances in medtech ensuring that all solvent citizens can enjoy a full and active life well into their 100s , one set of milk teeth and one set of adult teeth just is n't enough . |