Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [subord] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the calm after high tide when life seems to be held suspended , waiting , breathless , for the tide 's turning when everything will be thrown into motion again . |
| 2 | This is because Western religion has come from a Semitic origin where life was serious as befits a desert people . |
| 3 | The hon. Gentleman produced a more entertaining account than life itself — and given that life has been fairly entertaining over the past year , that is quite an achievement . |
| 4 | Benjamin 's allusions in this passage are not just to the dominance of image and sensation and the devaluation of meaning in surrealism , not just to its characteristic patterning by eruptions of the primary process into consciousness , but also and especially to surrealism 's unconditional refusal to consider art as of a different order than life . |
| 5 | Benjamin 's allusions in this passage are , not just to the dominance of the figural and the devaluation of meaning in surrealism , not just to its characteristic patterning by eruptions of the primary process into consciousness , but also and especially to surrealism 's unconditional refusal to consider art as of a different order than life . |
| 6 | If art is no longer to be considered as of a different order than life , then the idea of aesthetic avant-gardes is questioned . |
| 7 | In living and working together , people develop mutual antagonisms which have to be counteracted by sublimated sexual energy if life and work are to continue . |
| 8 | Such intimacy as life with my mother entailed should cease with parturition , and since Syl so resembled her in his attitude to me I could see no end to my continued childhood . |
| 9 | There was no such thing as life within prisons , only day-to-day existence . |
| 10 | He is a gentleman of complete integrity , ‘ disdainful of all littleness and meanness ’ , to whom honour has more importance than life itself . |
| 11 | For if our physical reality is largely linked to the mental and sensory mechanisms we possess , then what was the nature of physical reality before life is supposed to have spontaneously emerged — like mice out of soiled linen , as some Victorians thought — from the primaeval muds of ancient oceans ? |
| 12 | Death , whatever it was , was a reality , a more important reality than life , if one were to judge by its duration . |
| 13 | There is even one corner where life in the year 2000 B.C. is represented : when Alford , or whatever the site would have been known as then , would have consisted of straw huts where its inhabitants might have been weavers and flint tool makers . |
| 14 | Williams has said that the doctor is ‘ probably exempted from that duty if life has become a burden to the patient ’ . |
| 15 | Umbria is a wonderful region where life is simple and the people are unpretentious country folk . |
| 16 | Probability of life on a randomly selected planet if life arose only once in the universe . |