Example sentences of "a life [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | At that point I knew it was a life choice . ’ |
2 | But was it a life choice that Bob ever regretted ? |
3 | Having children is a life choice that is down to the individual . |
4 | Grandson was rewarded by Edward with extensive land grants in England , especially in Kent , and also in Ireland , and in 1275 with the wardenship of the Channel Islands , later transformed into a life grant . |
5 | So vivid was her imagination that she became adept at having conversations with him in which he was always making her laugh , always being to her the sort of person she longed to have as a life companion . |
6 | Joan Vernikos , a life scientist at Ames , notes that the effects are not quite like osteoporosis on Earth ; microgravity appears to change the levels of calcium in the plasma as well as the way minerals are deposited in the matrix of bone . |
7 | At an upstairs window they present a life size dummy head : firm jaw , aquiline nose , shining complexion . |
8 | The horse is immortalised by a life size bronze statue at Aintree , presented by Seagram . |
9 | But you get small ponies , I mean it could be a life size model of a horse that big . |
10 | Orlando Aravena , the national team coach , has received a life ban from international soccer and a five-year ban at domestic level . |
11 | The team doctor , Daniel Rodriguez , gets a life ban for submitting a fraudulent medical certificate detailing Rojas 's ‘ injury ’ ; and Fernando Astengo , Chile 's vice-captain who led the players off the pitch in the Maracana , has been suspended for five years . |
12 | You suggested heavy fines and a life ban on owing dogs . |
13 | Ironically one of those who could n't make it was the Conservatives ' first Asian Tory MP Nirj Deva , who is serving a life ban at the restaurant for becoming ‘ too exuberant ’ there seven years ago . |
14 | Reynolds now faces a life ban |
15 | A second offence carries a life ban . |
16 | It means a life ban . |
17 | Andrew Saxton and his colleague Andrew Davies faced a life ban after being found to have taken Clenbuterol while training for the games . |
18 | SOCCER hooligan Steven Williamson faces a life ban from watching Leeds United . |
19 | Neville Pearce , mitigating , said Williamson of East Lane Cottage , Shipton , York , was an ardent Leeds supporter who now faced a life ban by the club . |
20 | Recent surveys find 80% of Americans in favour , though the proportion drops when they are offered the alternative of a life imprisonment that genuinely means for life . |
21 | However , she continued to write and then Meehan himself sent the first of many letters , beginning , ‘ Dear Mr Kennedy , I am serving a Life imprisonment for a horrible murder in which I was never involved . ’ |
22 | But being the oldest swinger in a town a hot mile 's walk away was a life Sombro was used to . |
23 | Only a life history approach can allow us to follow these threads to a fuller understanding of each person 's singular present . |
24 | Psychoanalysis as a therapeutic practice consists of two people trying to construct a life history of the unique development , from birth onwards , of one of the participants , the analysand . |
25 | It will use a sample survey and a life history approach . |
26 | Finally , a life history which encourages people to expect to be able to control the sources of suffering and nurturance in their lives should be protective against depression ( Abramson et al. , 1978 ) . |
27 | Both of these important studies describe childhood lack of care as the starting point for a life history of misfortune and a high risk of depression . |
28 | Too many daughters needing dowries or annuities if they remained unmarried could spell disaster , as could an attempt to emulate a life style they could not really afford . |
29 | He was twenty-eight and at the top of the profession in America , a place where he had commitments , a secure job , money coming in , young kids , a home , a life style . |
30 | Yerofeev , it is said , chose this way of life deliberately and was not forced into it by economic circumstances , but inevitably such a life style would induce a sense of infinite weariness and degradation — which Courtenay 's appearance fails to convey . |