Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] life [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It turns on to its side and as I cling on for dear life I hear a startled cry from Nathan . |
| 2 | Another thing that seriously disappoints me about this life I 'm living through : the reading . |
| 3 | Wordsworth 's poetic fluency had never been greater , and the landscape near Tintern Abbey , revisited after an absence of five years , released from him a stream of meditative blank verse quite different in style from the humble poems of rural life he had been writing for the Lyrical Ballads . |
| 4 | I do n't want her to end up with the sort of empty life I 've got to look forward to . |
| 5 | For example , advertisements which consistently use businessman as the synonym for people in business seek to remind women that in many areas of commercial life it is still a man 's world . |
| 6 | Labour changes from being at a stage where it has not yet become a thing in itself and is merely an aspect of social life , to a stage when although still an aspect of social life it involves exploitation , i.e. slavery and serfdom , to a third stage when labour has become mysteriously represented as a thing and is used for a different kind of exploitation . |
| 7 | ‘ Come on in and help me make sense of this life I live . ’ |
| 8 | It 's the actors of real life you want to watch — yeah , and the actresses . |
| 9 | Mind you , in any area of domestic life it was more sensible , in budgetary terms anyway , to Do It Yourself . |
| 10 | In the case of suburban-type housing , the view of domestic life it ultimately reflects is a strongly traditional one that has its origins in the early development of industrial capitalism and the ensuing ideological split between ‘ public ’ and ‘ private ’ life developed by the Victorian bourgeoisie . |
| 11 | The norms of domestic life it set forth drew a clear ideological boundary between rational members of society and the feckless . |
| 12 | It was only fit for crocodiles , not even for the abysmal species of human life she found there . |
| 13 | On a more phenomenological level , if we wanted some visual analogue to the associationist view of mental life we could not do much better than think of one of those ‘ psychedelic ’ slide-shows popular in the late 1960s , in which lights were projected through oil , producing coloured globs which met , merged and repelled in a series of kaleidoscopic patterns . |
| 14 | Once scientists began to collect the record of past life they soon came across the problem of how to order and arrange the huge variety of fossil forms they recovered . |
| 15 | ‘ With the increasing pressure of everyday life I have come to realise the importance of finding time to exercise on a regular basis , ’ says Fergie , who is also the President of the Sports Aid Foundation . |
| 16 | erm If you take a novel like Dorothy Sayers ' Gaudy Night , which is offered as an example of a classic detective story which really is also a novel about academic life , it 's a love story , I think as a love story and as a novel of academic life it 's in many ways very good indeed , but I think as a detective story it 's completely uninteresting you know because one part has to fade in order that the , the other should come into focus . |
| 17 | Now with new life we can be blessed |
| 18 | From being able to cope just about ) with everyday life they were tipped over the edge into breakdown , from which only a few were able to re-emerge . |
| 19 | The lesson to be derived was one of moderation : " Not only in the exercise of political power should men of prominence be considerate towards those of low estate , but also in private life they should — if they are sensible — treat their slaves gently . |
| 20 | Aloof in temperament , in private life he was pious , charitable , and of a simple way of living . |
| 21 | In private life he was very generous , and gave a large sum anonymously to St Edmund Hall , the first £10,000 characteristically arriving in a dirty used envelope . |
| 22 | Cut off from that life it is fair game for the Enemy ( see chapter seven ) . |
| 23 | In social life we build personal ‘ constructs ’ ( Kelly 1955 ) and use them to create consistent patterns of relating with others . |
| 24 | When stories appear along the lines that in another life you were a peasant girl who starved to death during Ireland 's potato famine you know you 've arrived . |
| 25 | When you 're in public life you have to put up with er cameras and er things going erm around so and we 're going to be er , completely anonymous in er that , so |
| 26 | In the past the case has been based on the wish to delay in unstimulated life it home or admission to a training centre . |
| 27 | Forster ( 1962 , p.54 ) says : ‘ In daily life we never understand each other … . |
| 28 | Alexander appreciated that since most problems start in early life it should be possible to avoid these with the right teaching . |
| 29 | In early life he was employed by Mr R S Woulfe , a Methodist merchant in household and Mr Donovan was converted and had to leave home for employment in the North of Ireland . |
| 30 | He recalls in On Some of the Mental Affections of Childhood and Youth ( 1887 ) that in early life he had seen that ‘ children who were afflicted by mental alienation or mental incapacity of any kind ’ were categorized as idiots and considered incapable of responding to help . |