Example sentences of "life into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The author 's job is not merely to offer an illustrated Who 's Who entry , but to turn elements of a man 's life into a dramatic entity . |
| 2 | Heath 's revived corporatism in the early 1970s crumpled with the miners ' strikes and the OPEC price explosion , while the Labour government of the late 1970s was able only to breathe intermittent life into a system of corporate direction which powerful producer-groups and multinational companies in the so-called ‘ meso-economy ’ were both undermining . |
| 3 | On page 215 he does , however , to put some distance between himself and the racist overtones of this tradition : ‘ But what was the mysterious magic by which the Germans breathed new life into a dying Europe ? |
| 4 | I do n't think he conceived ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ as a concept album , but the songs slotted together in a way that it became a concept , and the way he presented it on stage , how he wanted to look , how the boy 's costumes looked ( facsimiles of his — though his were patterned and theirs were simple ) meant that he 'd breathe life into a concept hero . |
| 5 | And now director Oliver Stone is making his life into a film |
| 6 | A well converted market building can inject new life into a whole area : Covent Garden is the classic example , where all the former premises of fruit and vegetable wholesalers around the market have been taken over as shops , wine bars and restaurants . |
| 7 | Chapter 35 of Bede 's De temporum ratione is the locus classicus of the concept of the ‘ ages of man ’ , the medieval division of human life into a number of distinct periods best known to us today through the speech on the ‘ seven ages of man ’ by Jaques in Shakespeare 's As You Like It ( Act II , scene 7 ) . |
| 8 | The first is a humble spirit of inquiry , trying to fit the observed facts and experiences of life into a pattern of theory known as doctrine . |
| 9 | All in all , the juvenile labour exchange legislation served to institutionalize the transition from school to full-time employment , and in so doing provided it with priests and rituals ; the transition became a rite de passage and , therefore , brought this aspect of the adolescent 's life into a formal arena where it was subject to critical scrutiny . |
| 10 | Not tranquillisers — no one benefits from making their life into a cotton wool ball . |
| 11 | She was so full of self-hatred that she made life into a torture chamber . |
| 12 | It was not a conscious choice to retreat from public life into a private world . |
| 13 | An allegory may depart from everyday life into a make-believe world . |
| 14 | I , on the other hand , was free as I had never been before : free of the boring business of examinations to be got through and jobs to be found , I was forming my life into a growing , organic design , normal and beautiful . |
| 15 | As they put it , they feel that they have ‘ put back the life into a very contented house ’ . |
| 16 | Using painting , using art , to create a modus vivendi , a way of understanding life ; that is , for the time being , of trying to make my life into a work of art itself , instead of spending my life creating works of art in the form of paintings or sculptures . |
| 17 | In a biting attack on what he acidly calls ‘ a micro climate of organised euphoria ’ , Fumaroli argues that Jacques Lang and François Mitterrand have transformed Paris from a living centre of artistic life into a cultural Disneyland . |
| 18 | None of this criticism is aimed directly at Kylie , who does , in all fairness , endeavour to instill some life into a bunch of staid , production-line work outs that could never be anything more than pointless . |
| 19 | She had struggled to shape the messiness of life into a whole , like an artist . |
| 20 | I knew that I could put life into a body that was not alive . |
| 21 | A fresh bloom of new vigour and vitality perks up your professional prospects or puts renewed life into a personal plan . |
| 22 | Ballycastle weathered the early pressure from the home side during which Lynas hit the post before Kilmore introduced their two subs who immediately brought more life into a listless home side . |
| 23 | Fortunately , there always seemed to be a hard core of people who were determined to breathe new life into a tradition that had started with phenomenal success in 1892 under its first president , Billy Hutchinson , of Redcar . |
| 24 | Drink and drugs were threatening to turn her life into a repeat performance of that of her mother , Judy Garland . |
| 25 | PLANS to breathe new life into a derelict brickworks by building a new village on it have been rejected by Darlington councillors . |