Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members experience less work-related stress and are better adjusted to life in the organization . |
| 2 | It was as though the carved angel by the lectern had suddenly come to life . |
| 3 | It is as if the words had suddenly come to life inside my head . |
| 4 | He only came to life when she began unbuttoning his trousers , for as she touched his fly buttons , so he grabbed at his belt . |
| 5 | I put on the dress and it suddenly came to life . |
| 6 | Walsh , chugging along on two cylinders for most of the match , suddenly sparked to life , making the ball cut both ways and always liable to produce one that scuttled through . |
| 7 | Animals are not only more ingenious and better suited to life , they also have weird sex and commit weird murders . |
| 8 | The bullet avoids in this , well very briefly , erm about for half a dozen of them , first of all erm , I 'd like members to be aware of the increasing interest being taken by the Department of Transport in the Ipswich transportation strategy and the Ipswich traffic study before that , the predictions we have from our consultants for the year two thousand and six and particularly their interest in their own trunk road system around Ipswich and the capacity of the Orwell Bridge , so that Department of Transport in Bedford are suddenly come to life to see what 's happening and have requested access to the information we have required from previous investment and consultancy work and the panel of members , the joint panel of members Ipswich , Suffolk recently gave approval to expose for being their findings of our work to the Department of Transport , which I think is a very good move and , and only be of some valuable to us ultimately . |
| 9 | Some of us are more mentally productive before midday ; others only come to life in the second half of the day . |
| 10 | He 's been sat there all day like a stuffed dummy , then he suddenly comes to life , grabs the dinner and runs off with it trailing between his legs , tripping and stumbling over it in his anxiety to have it all to himself . |
| 11 | As he speaks , the line suddenly comes to life again , and flashes over to the starboard side , and then cuts in front of the boat . |
| 12 | This is partly because surgery and drugs have not succeeded in banishing the ‘ diseases of civilisation ’ ( such as cancer , degenerative diseases of the cardiovascular , respiratory and other systems , and allergies ) and there is growing realisation that many of these diseases are intimately related to life styles and attitudes . |
| 13 | Among the parties that are soon to come to life the Socialists , National Democrats and the Christian Democrats will figure strongly . |
| 14 | He claimed that they soon adapted to life in captivity and became useful pest-controllers . |
| 15 | The introduction and subsequent evolution of restorative proctocolectomy over the past 14 years has meant that most patients who require surgical treatment for chronic ulcerative colitis are no longer condemned to life with a permanent ileostomy . |
| 16 | Even so , that mixture of emotion and social need , of personal pride and territorial inspiration , which we call honour , is not easily brought to life for young readers . |
| 17 | These tiny helpless little things that just come to life day by day , until they 're people . |
| 18 | Charlie could hear rifles being cocked up and down the trenches as sleepy men quickly came to life . |
| 19 | A New Zealand man was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of an English tourist , Monica Cantwell . |
| 20 | A CROWN Prosecution Service solicitor was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment after he was found guilty of murdering his student nurse wife . |
| 21 | Still cling to life and transport of delight . |
| 22 | Catherine Moore , 19 , of Daniels Court , Middlesbrough , was still clinging to life in hospital last night . |
| 23 | Owen had seen it done during his time in Alexandria , where hysterical prostitutes were quickly restored to life and reason by an experienced old Austrian police officer of the Labban Red Light quarter . |
| 24 | But in an increasingly urbanized society it took new forms more apparent to political opinion and more threatening to life and industry ; and there were very many more large populous areas devoid of the most elementary arrangements for disposing of waste or supplying pure water . |
| 25 | She was lifted bodily aboard by two sailors and carried down to a panelled cabin where she and Maria Candida were to live during the voyage ; and when she had been helped out of her clothes and into simpler garments that were more suited to life on board ship , she insisted upon going on deck to watch from the aftercastle as the mariners sang at the capstan and the anchors were weighed . |
| 26 | It also contended that he should have £80,000 to buy a house , in which his carers could live upstairs , rather than £150,000 for a bungalow more suited to life in a wheelchair . |
| 27 | But this also means that as the morphology of species matured over great periods of historic time , other forms became more adapted to life on land , while yet others returned to the water to escape the increasing competition . |
| 28 | Can it ever come to life again , not as a bait and hook for politicians to use , not as a shouting for soccer fans ? |
| 29 | The grass is so dry it seems impossible that it can ever come to life again : yet the huge acacia trees along the riverbed are putting out blossom , delicate sprigs of green in anticipation of the rains to come . |
| 30 | This was later commuted to life imprisonment , but Dr Banda has stated since that the Chirwas should be executed . |