Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [art] life " in BNC.

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1 While the magnificence of the result could justify the fact that The Red Shoes cost twice as much as The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp , there were many cases where the extravagance worked against the final result , and Michael Powell has recalled that he became ‘ impatient at the complacency of my associates about the mounting costs of our films . ’
2 The mixture of incomprehensible lunacy and clear truth was as surreal as the life she was living ; treading a thin line between the sharks in her room and Bryony , waiting for those times of distant peace , when she could watch the moving clouds through her window in simple tranquillity ; descending nightly into drugged black sleep , and carefully , anxiously behaving herself as inconspicuously as possible in front of the inhabitants of the house .
3 Life in a box is better than no life at all .
4 She says that her life now is better than the life she could have spent with someone she had never met before .
5 If that aim failed to materialise , it was no more extraordinary than the life that followed .
6 Nothing could be worse than the life I was leading at present , I thought , where the pressures from being homeless and unemployed were likely to force me into a series of criminal acts which would result in prison , or vagrancy at the least .
7 Under section 1(2) of the Criminal Damage Act 1971 it is an offence — punishable with life imprisonment — to damage property ‘ intending by the destruction or damage to endanger the life of another or being reckless whether the life of another would be thereby endangered ’ .
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