Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Advanced medical services , quality educational facilities , varies sports activities , top hotels and restaurants , traditional and cultural affairs all provide a rewarding life style for the discriminating resident . |
| 2 | We will encounter here Williams 's emphasis on the city as a ‘ front ’ region : a romantic place representing a better life over the horizon is common . |
| 3 | Never settle for painting a still life with nets and anchor just because you are afraid seascapes are too complex . |
| 4 | It is said that mentally handicapped people do not normally enjoy a happy life . |
| 5 | We can not enjoy a happy life with God unless we are willing to be disciplined — unhappy though that may appear at first . |
| 6 | The important point about this category of moves , is that the ‘ home ’ remains in existence and a person is required to establish a new life elsewhere . |
| 7 | According to his biographer , Henry Bordeaux , even when he landed he remained in a trance ‘ as if electrified by the fluid still passing through his frame ’ Though through so many dogfights he seemed to bear a charmed life , this kind of nervous impulsiveness seemed bound to lead to disaster . |
| 8 | More than 50,000 Vietnamese ‘ boat people ’ waste their lives in squalid , overcrowded prison-like camps in Hong Kong , almost certainly having lost their gamble to secure a new life in the West . |
| 9 | If they want a good quality product , and they want a good life for their oil , they will have to buy good oil . |
| 10 | The Kuptsi , the traditional economic backbone , conservative and self reliant with their roots in agrarian pre-revolutionary Russia ‘ want a better life but a better Russian life ’ , says a study produced by DMB&B , the advertising agency after 18 months of research of the market . |
| 11 | ‘ I want a short life but an intense one . ’ |
| 12 | The health service has its fair share of people who want a quiet life and perhaps more than its fair share of Authority members who , for political reasons , opposed the policy itself . |
| 13 | There are two sides to this , the travellers and the people who quite rightfully want a quiet life |
| 14 | I want a proper life the way other people have it . |
| 15 | But I think a feminist is somebody who knows that she wants a decent life , she wants to be in control of her own destiny , and who thinks she 's entitled to that . |
| 16 | Build a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies , illustrated by Scott Adams , is an amusing and accurate guide to office life . |
| 17 | BUILD A BETTER LIFE WITH BRICK |
| 18 | The South Belfast mother of four is selling her Newtownbreda home , the house contents and her car to follow her ambition and build a better life for her family . |
| 19 | One of my friends said he was a romantic boy who thought he bore a charmed life , but I argued that this was a superficial judgment . |
| 20 | The Modernists had enjoyed a brief life as a London group after Pound settled there for a dozen years in 1908 ; Bloomsbury was already one , first in Cambridge and later in London and Sussex , sharing not just a range of assumptions and convictions but an intimate web of social and amorous relations . |
| 21 | He had also enjoyed a longer life than his father ; his younger brother Benjamin , to whom we now turn , was not to be so lucky . |
| 22 | Liberal improvers , progressive Conservatives and socialists found themselves sharing some common ground in this assumption that it was the duty of the State to provide a better life for its citizens and which found expression in support for comprehensive social welfare , a national health service and a more humane treatment of those in need . |
| 23 | Just to go out into the night can give a sense of this ; night is not empty darkness — the night can be warm , or stormy , still or windy , and the darkness is charged by this and has a changing life of its own . |
| 24 | Nigel has a new life with his family in Florida . |
| 25 | Not because he ca n't live without her ( he has a new life , new partner and new home ) but because he has to know what happened . |
| 26 | Not because he ca n't live without her ( he has a new life , new partner and new home ) but because he has to know what happened . |
| 27 | And archivists like it , because if the medium carrying the recording has a limited life , it is possible to copy the sound to another medium without any degradation taking place . |
| 28 | Pottery has a limited life , determined by the function of the vessels , and thus store jars kept secure in a pantry may remain intact for several generations , while cooking pots , if in constant use , have a very short life . |
| 29 | For one who has a strenuous life it is necessary , absolutely necessary in order to keep sane and well . |
| 30 | Like many cephalopods , it has a curious life cycle : after growing very rapidly , reaching sexual maturity in just four months , it dies after a single breeding session . |