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 .
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