Example sentences of "[adv prt] in life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Collins only wants a wife because he feels that in the eyes of society it is about time for him to be married and to have settled down in life . |
| 2 | By definition , you can not do well all the time , you can only try to — your attitude is that you could be a hell of a lot worse off in life than getting out for 30 as opposed to 75 . |
| 3 | We have people such as Alan Sugar , who start off in life without any great qualifications . |
| 4 | There have always been fires on Earth , from volcanoes and lightning ; and when a plant is burnt it gives out only the carbon dioxide that it itself has taken up in life , so the net effect of burning biomass , at least on atmospheric CO 2 , is probably zero . |
| 5 | I think that drama school stops you playing safe too early on in life and encourages you to take risks . |
| 6 | I was born a reject , in the gutter ; was bred in the gutter ; and had learnt , very early on in life , to walk close to the gutter . |
| 7 | There are other things going on in life . |
| 8 | This was a handicap which he never found time to remedy later on in life . |
| 9 | For example , a person who early on in life formed the assumption that they had to have everybody 's approval in order to be happy , could become depressed if they did not subsequently secure the approval of someone important to them . |
| 10 | In the case of the couple or family considering the costs and benefits of a future child , the explicit consideration of rates of discount is rather different in that children are perceived to be a positive asset from early on in life but particularly after fifteen years or so when they can work effectively on the farm ( and so replace costly paid labour at times of peak labour demand ) or as a wage labourer . |
| 11 | They should neither remain aloof from what goes on in life , nor should they spend all their time solving industrial problems . |
| 12 | Remember , even if you do not have any specific ailments you will still benefit greatly from a course of lessons , perhaps preventing much pain or discomfort later on in life . |
| 13 | Later on in life those same children may be expected to regard that Bible with such reverence , that the placing of a hand on a copy of it automatically makes their obligation to tell the truth more compelling . |
| 14 | Secure attachments early on in life provide inner resources to manage stressful and threatening situations in later years . |
| 15 | While it is self-evident that childhood experiences must have a profound formative effect upon the beliefs we have about ourselves and upon our expectations of others , most of us fail to take them into account when we run into trouble later on in life . |
| 16 | She began to think of it as he , and wondered if he would make something of himself later on in life . |
| 17 | It usually occurs in the teenage years , but as Bethan 's case proves , it can also persist , or even start , later on in life . |
| 18 | For most people , getting on in life , winning promotion , saving a bit , going on a better holiday , buying a car , purchasing a home , giving the children a better start — all these are natural aims . |
| 19 | The men worked hard and as you got on in life you just thought this was home , although you had n't the luxuries . |
| 20 | Larger families represent an unacceptable burden on the state or , worse still , may become enemies of society : " All intelligent Salvadoreans — men or women — ought to realize that in order to get on in life , it is better to have one well-trained child , than 5 or 10 who are a burden , or enemies of the society in which we live . |
| 21 | For most other jobs that we take on in life , there will be an element of training , but , in the case of achieving or maintaining health through diet , this is not always so . |
| 22 | I think there 's another point around that about erm , the image that 's portrayed by the media and and to be successful in your career you must be a slim , well made up woman erm , and thinness equates with success and an ability to get on in life . |
| 23 | Later on in life I did acquire another bike , a Raleigh , and a good , stout little bike it is . |
| 24 | She said : ‘ They were lovely men , and it was great to see brothers still enjoying their own company late on in life . |
| 25 | And my aunt said , Well I would prefer her to if that 's what she wants to do and she 's gon na learn something that might be a benefit to her later on in life . |
| 26 | but she sold her house in Jersey , her husband retires in July , the school break , and erm and she said I 've got some good , er when I got home from wherever I 'd been , Rudy left me a note to say phone Val good news and I thought it were her back was good news , but she said no me medical problems were not good news , they dare n't operate cos me back 's in such a state and they have n't give her much hope for anything apart from a wheelchair sort of thing , later on in life and erm , but she said that I 've got a bit of good news I 've sold me house so I said ooh lovely , so she said I do n't know any more but I ring you and let you know , the next night she phoned me back , she said yeah me house has gone they got two hundred and twenty thousand for it , they wanted them out a week on Thursday |
| 27 | Well , to me if a child has got a by all means encourage along but you should n't push them into anything cos later on in life they get a bloody complex about everything you know if they |
| 28 | yes and it 's the education that is made children literate early on in life |
| 29 | Erm and this can leave people obviously with a number of traumas and a number of difficulties to deal with later on in life . |
| 30 | ‘ I would never set out in life to assassinate anybody , but some people have made sure that the mud will stick to me . ’ |