Example sentences of "[noun] live a [adj] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for his goodness , the attempt to live a Christian life was so much a part of Irwin 's public persona that the legend became current that , arriving in India on Good Friday , he ignored the official ceremonies of welcome and went straight to church . |
| 2 | The anxiety of the papal reformers to put all clergy under a rule shows that experience suggested to them that celibacy could only be enforced on monks or folk living a quasi-monastic life . |
| 3 | These needs must include the needs to live a natural life and not be used for invasive procedures or be kept in restrictive confinement . |
| 4 | And for two years Pula lived a luxurious life , safe behind a high fence , feeding on imported peanuts , strawberry yoghurt , and fresh vegetables . |
| 5 | If his public life was typical of the Whig grandees of his day , Wharton lived a private life ( at least in his head ) that was bizarre in the extreme . |
| 6 | If I had found the cramped interior of the U-boat at Kiel oppressive , it was nothing to the claustrophobia I felt inside the midget submarine , and I marvelled again at the courage and calm that had enabled Place and his crew to live a daily life in such surroundings , far less undertake and brilliantly accomplish their mission . |
| 7 | This restrained attitude did , at least , enable farm cats and some town cats to live a tolerable life as unloved pest-controllers , but for certain village cats life was far more unpleasant . |
| 8 | Insulin injections allow the majority to live a normal life but the control over blood sugar is not as efficient as the body 's own mechanism . |
| 9 | Of the four brothers who went to war , only Thomas Bradford , who won a Distinguished Service Order , survived and returned to County Durham to live a full life until his death aged 80 in 1966 . |
| 10 | The smaller resident landowners lived a simple life and were , like the Basque nobility , interested in the reform movement of the late eighteenth century and supplied many of its leaders . |
| 11 | More recently , the couple made a brave effort to live a normal life for the children . |
| 12 | Sadie lived a solitary life for about three years without even the company of other dogs . |
| 13 | The Cagots lived a peculiar life outside society , without rights but exempt from taxes , wearing a badge on their clothing to indicate their standing , forbidden to walk barefoot , unable to hear mass with their fellow Christians . |