Example sentences of "[adv] to [adj] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's a Russian émigré — came out just after the Revolution , although he had been part of it himself , and I do n't think he 's ever really settled down to ordinary life . |
| 2 | We could settle down to real life ; they were out to get us , and we were out to stop them . |
| 3 | Diana had felt unwell for much of the early part of her pregnancy , and was not quite herself , which made the process of settling down to married life all the more difficult . |
| 4 | He would never be able to settle down to married life like a suburban husband . |
| 5 | Charles would never be able to settle down to married life like a suburban husband . |
| 6 | Meanwhile Keith and Mae are settling down to married life , making up for lost time . |
| 7 | ‘ My role is not to spare life but to protect my own . |
| 8 | We are applying it not to everyday life , but to that aspect of the performance mode that is , at least incipiently , present in dramatic playing . |
| 9 | I really felt I 'd given myself totally to African life . " |
| 10 | Admittedly they were only nineteen , but surely , he reasoned , there must be more to married life than this ? |
| 11 | It is important to see in this last point a clear distinction between the term ‘ source of an instinct ’ , which would be studied by physical scientists , and the Freudian concept of instinct , which is one belonging more to mental life , for it gives rise to inner stimuli in the experience of a person . |
| 12 | This subsection applies both to mandatory life sentences for murder and to discretionary life sentences for other offences for which such a sentence may lawfully be imposed . |
| 13 | Winnicott traces out how from infancy onwards individuals learn to make a space between themselves and others , and yet avoid total separation by ‘ the filling in of the potential space with creative living , with the use of symbols , and with all that adds up to cultural life ’ ( Winnicott , 1971 ) . |
| 14 | He did not marry again until much later , when he was coming back to political life after the economic changes of 1962 , which made the shipping more important . |
| 15 | Back to ordinary life . |
| 16 | It seems impossible to me that she can not be brought back to life , that such a person can not be brought back to normal life . |
| 17 | As people go back to normal life , we 're left with the consequences . |
| 18 | Although they make a go of the cinema for a while , by showing desert pictures and pushing up the heat so that they can sell cool refreshments , their only aim is to get back to middle-class life , but with enough money to avoid any more ‘ petty , stupid problems . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You wo n't be going back to civilian life for the time being . ’ |
| 20 | We felt we were halfway back to civilian life , being off the camp and in the middle of an interesting town . |
| 21 | After I got back to civilian life , I fell back into the habit of admiring the Masai , but regarding them as insubstantial . |
| 22 | But while we were there they had several meetings because of course we were going to be demobbed anyway , and the Colonel er of the regiment he had us together and so did the officers , and warned us that when we got back to civilian life we must er beware of these agitators who tried to er create suspicion amongst the troops who were coming back , and telling them that they ought to join er these revolutionary parties . |
| 23 | But his family says he never adjusted back to civilian life . |
| 24 | I have known a derelict country house collection rescued with it and have seen ancient college and cathedral libraries brought back to serene life after decades of neglect . |
| 25 | It 's a difficult decision but I knew if I married out there , well , there is a certain loneliness , yet going back to English life is unsatisfactory . |
| 26 | Old bushes can be brought back to vigorous life by cutting them down to a foot from the ground at the end of winter . |
| 27 | ‘ It will bring you back to furious life . ’ |
| 28 | If we were bound by the decision in Handscomb , I would see force in the argument that this principle should apply equally to mandatory life sentences . |
| 29 | And it was probably because of his desire to ‘ touch ’ space that he began to abandon landscape painting and to devote himself increasingly to still life , in which the depth was naturally more restricted and could be more easily controlled . |
| 30 | It is through the prompting of the Holy Spirit that the Bible reader gains the mind of Christ , which enables him to apply teaching given centuries ago to contemporary life . |