Example sentences of "more [adj] [subord] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | More grave than life |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The opportunities offered by the Medau system become daily more valuable as life for so many people demands less and less physical activity . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Bill Shankly was only joking when he said football was more important than life and death . |
| 6 | He mentioned stuff about his family … and how football was nt more important than life or death ( Shankly ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | What can be more precious than life itself and if one is youthful there is more of it . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |