Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [subord] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | One does n't resent it so much when life does . |
| 2 | ‘ You probably have , only larger than life . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | More grave than life |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The theatre is always larger than life , is n't it ? |
| 12 | The opportunities offered by the Medau system become daily more valuable as life for so many people demands less and less physical activity . |
| 13 | But even though he strives to protect his privacy , Craig 's still larger than life at work , always joking , teasing and larking about . |
| 14 | Robert Maxwell is still larger than life even in death . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Bill Shankly was only joking when he said football was more important than life and death . |
| 17 | He mentioned stuff about his family … and how football was nt more important than life or death ( Shankly ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | What can be more precious than life itself and if one is youthful there is more of it . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Shrimpton was in the mid-forties , overweight , and slightly larger than life , a sociable type . |
| 23 | As much as life and death . |
| 24 | There were the words , as large as life and often twice as sane . |
| 25 | Yet here they were , as large as life — Surkov with his long yellow hair and Rozanov with his attenuated face and his baldness — clearly the living people with whom I had boozed and improvised in Moscow , so long ago . |
| 26 | Oh , Lee , you 're as large as life . |
| 27 | No , there it was , as large as life in capital letters : To MR LUDOVIC KENNEDY , BBC TELEVISION STUDIOS . |
| 28 | Jack Hayden obviously has a very close affinity with William Terris ' ghost because when he made a purposeful visit to Covent Garden Station recently he saw him ‘ as large as life ’ , as if waiting to welcome him back . |
| 29 | As large as life and death , both funny and sad — and not a little dangerous . |
| 30 | His range of interests is as large as life : births , marriages , deaths , quarrels , reconciliations , rhetoric , religion , cultivation , animal husbandry , home-crafts , politics — all claim his attention and are ( or should be ) faithfully reported — warts and all . |