Example sentences of "[verb] life [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can you predict life expectancy from such an input health indicator ? |
| 2 | Patients are anxious that the diagnosis may jeopardise their chance of acquiring life insurance , mortgages , and employment . |
| 3 | Now building societies are the preferred choice of many customers for purchasing life insurance . |
| 4 | Dr Ken Jones , of Affinity Chromatography , Isle of Man , said biotech drugs promise to increase life expectancy by 20 years . |
| 5 | You want life assurance |
| 6 | However , PEPs do not include life assurance cover and those with dependants should take out a separate policy , at additional cost . |
| 7 | Two conferences are to be held in London , Understanding the benefits of adopting a cradle-to-grave approach on the 31 April 1992 , and The practicalities of conducting and applying life cycle analysis on 1 May 1992 . |
| 8 | They can buy life assurance companies , run unit trusts and take over or start stockbroking firms . |
| 9 | Following an amendment to the Constitution , the current head of state , Hastings Kamuzu Banda , was proclaimed Life President in July 1971 , having ruled Malawi since independence . |
| 10 | Hastings Kamuzu Banda , Malawi 's ruler since independence , was proclaimed Life President in 1971 following a constitutional amendment . |
| 11 | Dr Remondino attacked the ‘ debateable appendage ’ in his History of Circumcision ( 1891 ) , and compared circumcision to ‘ a well secured life annuity ’ , ‘ a better saving investment ’ , making for a greater capacity for labour , a longer life , less nervousness , fewer doctors ' bills . |
| 12 | He was expected to receive life imprisonment in accordance with the government 's new law on terrorism [ see p. 38909 ] . |
| 13 | Plot life expectancy cubed versus number of people per doctor as transformed in ( a ) . |
| 14 | One of the country 's biggest banks recently hired a European consulting firm to advise it on how best to sell life insurance . |
| 15 | Someone employed on the Census in April was forced to resign after trying to sell life insurance as he called at homes in London to collect people 's forms ! |
| 16 | Lord King will remain non-executive chairman for a year and will then become life president . |
| 17 | His senior salesman on the other hand , suggested other pitches , and , probably trying to be helpful , advised me : ‘ Selling life insurance is easy ! ’ he said , ‘ Find a young guy , just married , see . |
| 18 | Her curriculum vitae reads like Raymond Chandler 's : ‘ My jobs have included post-doctoral research , school-teaching , Head of Information at the British Antarctic Survey , and selling life insurance ’ . |
| 19 | How many adverts have you seen recently selling life assurance and pensions , for example ? |
| 20 | Exactly the same example for selling life assurance to the wife . |
| 21 | During waking life primary process thinking is displaced during the child 's development by secondary process thinking , and in the adult it remains as a neurotic symptom , most clearly during dreaming , but also operating at a subconscious level to influence waking behaviour . |
| 22 | The showery activity and strong winds eased during the 12th-14th as the offending depression drifted away northwards and a slight thaw was sufficient to help life return to normal on low ground . |
| 23 | Consider life expectancy , a measure indicating the number of years a newborn infant could typically be expected to live if patterns of mortality prevailing for all people in the year of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've got life insurance . |
| 25 | Japan has experienced a recent and rapid fall in fertility combined with more gradually lengthening life expectancy . |
| 26 | They faced life imprisonment if convicted . |
| 27 | The choice is between a repayment mortgage which is a straightforward loan , an endowment mortgage which includes life assurance , and a pension mortgage . |
| 28 | In it , 1,500 individuals were asked : ‘ If you were to buy life assurance , which of the following methods , if any , would you choose — from a salesman in your own home , from a broker in his office , by post ( either from a newspaper advertisement or from a mailshot ) , from a bank , or from a building society . ’ |
| 29 | That 's what she 's got to spend to buy life assurance . |
| 30 | ought to be said really , since Alan is not here and is erm is resigning , well perhaps that could come a little later on because I think both Joan and Alan er there should be some record other than this about the work they have put in for the Society er I mean the only idea I have , I do n't know how much of a a precedent this is , whether , whether anybody should be offered life membership of the the society or is that only for do you have to reach a certain age |