Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] to life " in BNC.

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1 Their UK representative is Arvids Natzins of Corby , Northants , and he is appealing to aero clubs worldwide to ‘ twin ’ with LAK and to exchange information as the Latvians urgently need western experience to bring their club back to life and to use western practices .
2 But behind the scenes the 86-year-old reformer is believed to be working to bring his economic programme back to life .
3 Ford makes the Joad family spring vividly to life .
4 His attitude both to life and art , charming enough in him , when taken up by others as a general cultural ideal becomes something deadly , especially for the English , an intelligent but very lazy people , far too easily bored , and persuaded beyond argument that they are the Herrenvolk .
5 The project would " bring forestry exploitation back to life " by helping " to free up " transport links and timber marketing operations .
6 Nothing , of course , can compare with the haunting experience of visiting Pompeii itself , where the work of bringing the town back to life continues .
7 In a bizarre leadership contest had dug up a dead Davidian and challenged his rival Vernon to bring the body back to life .
8 Michael White of the Guardian likened Amaranth to Venus rising from the foam , Bruce Anderson to the spirit of enterprise , while Lord Wyatt of Weeford , who had been sent to Brighton for the Telegraph , wrote that he had been ‘ captivated ’ by a performance which by its daring and originality had brought an otherwise dull Tory conference startlingly to life .
9 Polishing with a soft cloth will bring the surface back to life .
10 I should say at once I was not harbouring any weirdo Lawrentian notion that the lightning had zapped the little cow back to life the moment I left the turret ; for one thing there was the matter of missing parts .
11 I 'll offer them a pathway back to life .
12 Scientists in France have found a new way to bring the past back to life .
13 There 's still unfortunately a great deal of history which is pegged to dates , and dates are very important to historians , but fortunately now there 's a lot of history which tries to bring the past back to life in some kind of way .
14 Whereas before I 'd be home for perhaps two hours and then away for five months , now I appreciate that there 's a lot more to life .
15 There 's a lot more to life than that . ’
16 Some people are realising that there 's a lot more to life than paying your rent and having your American Express card , ’ says Margo , conveniently forgetting about the discreet stickers near the cash desk encouraging clients to pay by American Express and Mastercharge .
17 He wrote it down in his ledger which he used as a kind of diary-cum-commonplace book : and by the vigour of his writing he has brought the encounter vividly to life :
18 There was a rumble across the workshop floor as the motors of the machinery sluggishly-coughed back to life .
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