Example sentences of "[adj] life it " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past the case has been based on the wish to delay in unstimulated life it home or admission to a training centre . |
| 2 | The palazzo was built in the early seventeenth century and after spending a period as one of the centres of Milanese high life it was taken over by a prestigious academy , the Accademia dei Fenici . |
| 3 | But , to the contrary , Singer finds that in much of post-war British life it is applauded and rewarded . |
| 4 | Labour changes from being at a stage where it has not yet become a thing in itself and is merely an aspect of social life , to a stage when although still an aspect of social life it involves exploitation , i.e. slavery and serfdom , to a third stage when labour has become mysteriously represented as a thing and is used for a different kind of exploitation . |
| 5 | For example , advertisements which consistently use businessman as the synonym for people in business seek to remind women that in many areas of commercial life it is still a man 's world . |
| 6 | Hamilton asserted that in ordinary life it was the strong arm of the law and not the strong arm of the husband which protected women from hurt or molestation . |
| 7 | In ordinary life it is rare indeed for people to form their beliefs by a process of logical deduction from facts ascertained by a rigorous search for all available evidence and a judicious assessment of its probative value . |
| 8 | Even if the exact number of rounds in the game is not known for certain , in real life it is often possible to make a statistical guess as to how much longer the game is likely to last . |
| 9 | This sort of behaviour may be cute and quirky when Tom Hanks does it in a feel-good age-swap movie , but in real life it 's pathetic , regressive , and very very sad . |
| 10 | In real life it is really not very likely that six people ( and six is about the right number , pushing upwards to eight and down to a minimum of three , though you have to be skilled to have that few ) will each have good reason for committing the same murder . |
| 11 | ‘ In real life it would take them some time to get this boat ready to go to sea . |
| 12 | In real life it is up to the problem.solver to search around and find the factors that should be taken into consideration and the ones that can safely be left out . |
| 13 | In real life it is not unreasonable to expect that the learner may often hear things of which the meaning escapes him . |
| 14 | Just cos you 've messed up your practical your your personal life it do n't mean you have to take it out on the rest of us . |
| 15 | Alexander appreciated that since most problems start in early life it should be possible to avoid these with the right teaching . |
| 16 | If Ackerley derived any satisfaction from this rough , rackety , frustrated life it was in his work at The Listener , where his enlightened editorial policies make him sound like a reviewer 's dream ( he telephoned contributors at midnight to query the removal of a comma ) . |
| 17 | Liberty for Anselm never meant freedom of individual choice ; in the monastic life it meant only freedom to follow the Rule within a local framework authoritatively laid down . |
| 18 | Since television is now admitted to all other public aspects of our national life it is absurd for the Commons to conceal themselves . |
| 19 | In later life it served as a stable , the 16th century structure being initially restored in 1937 and subsequently converted . |
| 20 | Presumably it saw service for iron working at some time , although in later life it was used for corn grinding , saw milling , as well as being operated for a time as a maltings . |
| 21 | Although mental illness should not be regarded as any different from physical illness , it is not always so viewed by the uninformed and the fact that in later life it might become known that a minor had been treated under the Acts might redound to his or her disadvantage . |
| 22 | Mind you , in any area of domestic life it was more sensible , in budgetary terms anyway , to Do It Yourself . |
| 23 | In the case of suburban-type housing , the view of domestic life it ultimately reflects is a strongly traditional one that has its origins in the early development of industrial capitalism and the ensuing ideological split between ‘ public ’ and ‘ private ’ life developed by the Victorian bourgeoisie . |
| 24 | The norms of domestic life it set forth drew a clear ideological boundary between rational members of society and the feckless . |
| 25 | Once Calder Hall and Chapel Cross , the military reactors , reach the end of their operational life it is conceivable that the military could produce weapons grade plutonium from the civil nuclear programme in one or more ways . |
| 26 | When I was a schoolgirl some friends took me on to a farm and I used to watch the milking and think what a grand life it was , so healthy , not at all like life in the pits and the factories . |
| 27 | If deer have a tough life it is entirely due to human history , so man has a moral obligation to look after their well-being . |
| 28 | I said well what you do in your private life it 's up to you if you want to get drunk and you want to spend money then that 's fine but once you step over that clock tower I said and you start interfering with my work it 's a different thing , I said well I 've and I 've just said nothing because although you ai n't worked right , at least you 've sort of you 've work in this factory sort of in the morning , you 've got over it but |
| 29 | For one who has a strenuous life it is necessary , absolutely necessary in order to keep sane and well . |
| 30 | Cut off from that life it is fair game for the Enemy ( see chapter seven ) . |