Example sentences of "a life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps this is because , as a member of the Abingdon Group put it : ‘ In a group there is the fun and companionship … and the awe at saving a life , supporting a prisoner through years of isolation , getting your prisoner free . ’ |
| 2 | Its daring conception , ideal in the highest sense of the word , is based on the purest truth , and wrought out with the concentrated knowledge of a life , its colour is almost perfect , not one false or morbid hue in any part or line , and so modulated that every square inch of canvas is a perfect composition ; its drawing is as accurate as fearless ; the ship buoyant , bending , and full of motion ; its tones as true as they are wonderful ; and the whole picture dedicated to the most sublime of subjects and impressions … the power , majesty and deathfulness of the open , deep , illimitable sea . |
| 3 | In calling his recent book about his own early life by the name of The Facts , Philip Roth is issuing a challenge — expecting his readers to know that there are no bare facts , and obliging them to think hard about what happens in the recounting of the facts of a life . |
| 4 | STUDYING the West Coast of Scotland from the yacht Britannia , the Queen is said to have remarked , not long ago , that the people there did n't seem to have much of a life . |
| 5 | He followed this with Jack Absolute in The Rivals at the National Theatre and David Mamet 's A Life in the Theatre with Freddie Jones at the Open Space . |
| 6 | Four real beginnings , wrote Harsnet , and four real rejections : the rejection of a life without art , the rejection of art , the rejection of any form of making , and the final rejection of all absolutes and the acceptance of compromise . |
| 7 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 8 | After eight months ' work it has acquired a life of its own . |
| 9 | Easy to see what effect sudden nausea at even the thought of the big glass would have on a life lived in this way . |
| 10 | It was the voice of a woman released , in more ways than one , from a life of obedient acquiescence to a stronger personality . |
| 11 | Tavernier , who is a native Lyon , Birmingham 's twin town , has had a life long love affair with cinema . |
| 12 | By this time , I was already leading a life which ten years earlier I would have assured you that I could never have tolerated . |
| 13 | ‘ All my work is the evidence of a life , and not the life itself . ’ |
| 14 | A life in art began to make real sense . |
| 15 | Often the need for help arose from a specific pressure such as damaged or lost equipment or from a life event like moving house or the birth of a child . |
| 16 | Different manufacturers claim widely different life expectancies for both materials , but you can reasonably expect a five-year life from most types ( but as some manufacturers claim a life of only half this , and others double , check before you buy ) . |
| 17 | Beyond this specific instance , fourfoldness has a life of its own in his thought ; it appears in card-games — ‘ le jeu des cartes ’ relates to ‘ le jeu Descartes , — where there are four suits , plus a joker , whom Megill identifies with Derrida himself . |
| 18 | A car and a life left on the other side of the fence |
| 19 | The sentence is commuted to a life within prison walls when she volunteers to hang those due to swing beside her . |
| 20 | She is the widow of a life peer but is referred to throughout as ‘ Lady Julie ’ — the author indulging here in a little Pom-teasing . |
| 21 | Berger sets this story up by saying : ‘ Sometimes to refute a single sentence it is necessary to tell a life story ’ : one villager mistakenly claims that ‘ Boris died like one of his own sheep , neglected and starving ’ , whereas the admittedly ill-tended flock was in fact killed by lightning . |
| 22 | Health : The choice that allowed a life for Sophie : Pregnant at 37 , Belinda Whiting decided against screening . |
| 23 | Now in his eightieth year , Thesiger looked back on a life travelling in the Sudan , Arabia , Afghanistan , Morocco , East Africa and ‘ Eth … |
| 24 | Thousands of families were destined to a life of misery in cramped bed and breakfast accommodation . |
| 25 | He was put on a life support machine , but died four days later . |
| 26 | ‘ I was so inside the lyric , my body had a life of its own . |
| 27 | In July Mr Pettersson was convicted by a the crown court in a split decision where the majority , consisting of lay assessors , unanimously voted in favour of a life sentence . |
| 28 | Olshan brilliantly captures a life in an incident : a broken marriage in a frayed bedspread , a grief or an infidelity in the domestic smells which waft through the book . |
| 29 | BOOK REVIEW / America 's double voice : ‘ Willa Cather : A Life Saved Up ’ — Hermione Lee : Virago 12.99 pounds |
| 30 | Mr F W Lindgren , a Life Vice President of the Association , whose service on Central Council extended o0ver 45 years and who is now permanently living overseas resigned at the end of the year . |