Example sentences of "[adj] life at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | " There are some places in the Adriatic where marine life at the sea bottom has been completely wiped out " , says Civilis. * Ecologists gathered in Nice have called for the creation of an " international reserve of the western Mediterranean " , aimed in particular at protecting marine life from over-fishing , notably by the use of driftnets . |
| 2 | Andrewes used to carry around with him a small manuscript book in which he found his refuge from the intrigues , the coarseness and the immorality of daily life at the Court of King James . |
| 3 | Edward , school apart , was living a much more exciting life at the ramshackle , free-and-easy household of a friend , and exploring the common around his home in ever-increasing circles in the company of a few youths of similar tastes . |
| 4 | An enjoyable social life at the beginning of June may make you think twice about getting married now , Aquarius ! |
| 5 | Erm moving on a l a little bit , what was your social life at the time ? |
| 6 | The general regulation of economic and social life at the national level , and relations with other nation states , require a complex apparatus of government and administration , parties with broadly formulated aims and policies , and competition between parties ; but there is also a need for more direct and immediate means of political action , which would allow the effective expression of particular grievances and interests , counter some of the consequences of centralization and bureaucratic administration and make possible a more continuous practical participation by large numbers of citizens in determining the quality of their lives . |
| 7 | Mr Douglas recalled the Spartan , but nourishing life at the Friends ' School . |
| 8 | What was perhaps most crucial to the success of Impressionism in financial terms was its modern stance , as closely identified with contemporary life at the turn of the century as Romanticism had been fifty years before . |
| 9 | The yield to average life is simply the yield to maturity under the assumption that the entire bond matures on the date corresponding to the average life at the average redemption price . |
| 10 | In the last year of a brief life at the heart of a kind of doting celebrity that knew the value of success , he fell into notoriety of the sort that is just as American as his life . |
| 11 | She hoped her face had n't betrayed those inner feelings that had leapt into unwelcome life at the sight of him . |
| 12 | Mrs Markus increasingly took refuge from her unhappy domestic life at the Vienna Bridge Club . |
| 13 | Some variety was brought into the humdrum life at the gallery by the arrival of the Italian carabinieri , who found the works from the Tretyakov which were stolen in Genoa last year . |
| 14 | To be alone seemed a continuation of his drugged life at the lathe . |
| 15 | Thirdly , some elders may demonstrate little verbal consciousness , but from using functional assessment instruments it seems likely that they are capable of sustaining a largely independent life at the level of practical consciousness . |
| 16 | ‘ Dying Young ’ is fully deserving of its short life at the box office . |
| 17 | It 's an issue at the centre of political life at the moment . |
| 18 | As a rule , those who can afford it seem increasingly to temper the urban living of the weekday with a touch of rural life at the weekend . |
| 19 | Niceness and Lily 's cruel life at the moment hardly seemed to go . |
| 20 | The tuition in the conducting class may have been poor but Vienna had a very rich concert and operatic life at the time . |
| 21 | Handel had been dead for five years , but his music was still enormously popular ; J C Bach ( whose concert series run by himself and his compatriot Carl Friedrich Abel was one of the highlights of musical life at the time ) was also music master to the queen and a member of her private chamber band : as such he was responsible for organizing elaborate concerts at court . |
| 22 | NEWCASTLE 'S Steve Howey will face the toughest examination of his new life at the back tomorrow . |
| 23 | By calling on his fellow socialists to perform the equivalent of a collective hara-kiri , he paradoxically appears to have given them back hope of a new life at the moment of their deepest despair . |
| 24 | By calling on his fellow party members to perform the equivalent of a collective hara-kiri , he paradoxically appears to have given them back hope of a new life at the moment of their deepest despair . |
| 25 | Soccer Comment : Dark and deadly side of intense life at the top |
| 26 | ( One suspects that some head teachers regard such librarians as potential trouble-makers , but is it wise to buy a quiet life at the expense of quality of service ? ) |
| 27 | After 1860 Prince led a quiet life at the Agapemone until his death , writing and publishing religious works , including The Man Christ Jesus ( 1886 ) and The Counsel of God in Judgement ( 1887 ) , which proclaims the withdrawal of the Holy Ghost from the church and the world into Prince and the Agapemone . |
| 28 | Mozart is my whole life at the moment , ’ says soprano Joan Rodgers . |
| 29 | To this need the underclass responds , and it makes urban life at the comfortable levels of well-being not only pleasant but possible . |