Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] to life [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He announced at the beginning of that year that ‘ if Hitler had worn a dhoti he could have mistaken his mystical approach to life for that of Mr Gandhi ’ . |
| 2 | To bring our participants ' social world to life in the kind of detail that is likely to carry conviction we must not just plunge into descriptions of the world of school and football ground , since without the concepts to see it no alternative to the official picture is likely to emerge . |
| 3 | I wonder if it is because the prevailing attitude to life in the Eighties in Britain seems to be to look after number one , to get on , to make money , and not to bother about anyone else ? |
| 4 | What seems to have been forgotten is the role played by my relation , Meg Meade-Fetherstonhaugh in bringing this Sleeping Beauty to life for our generation to enjoy until its tragic destruction . |
| 5 | They might pause to reflect that there are those already born who have an equally strong right to life as an unborn child , and for whom embryo experimentation may give some hope of cure or relief . |
| 6 | She says that the lighting conditions in the mine and the great contrast to life above ground contributed to his artistic fascination for the subject . |
| 7 | To be able to ‘ identify what their interests and ideas might be ’ is to take up a political stance to life at work . |
| 8 | Writing almost a century after Kingston , he fulfilled the expectations of his readers with less melodrama in his plots and a more responsible attitude to life in his young hero , but Quinn is a very obvious descendant of Marryat 's Peter Simple and Kingston 's Jack Rogers in his lively opportunism and his youthful capacity for living in the present . |
| 9 | We can use affirmations to bring a positive , joyful attitude to life in general — either using them as needed during the day , or putting aside a few minutes every day to affirm our beliefs . |
| 10 | The moon causes another rhythm , which has little influence on us but is of profound importance to life along the shore , and that is the rhythm of the tides . |
| 11 | Most parents are aware of the very severe risk to life in using such drugs and of the increased danger , to those who inject and share needles , of contracting AIDS or hepatitis B. |
| 12 | They are drawn in a pictorial style which not only does away with the need to use abstract symbols , but seems to bring each incident to life in a most convincing way , especially when studied alongside the text ( see two examples form the book accompanying this article ) . |
| 13 | If there is one drawback to life at Belle Vue Cottage , it is the lack of land around the place . |
| 14 | Charles was fiercely proud of his wife and son , and felt that if there was any point to life at all , this was it . |
| 15 | He gave £50 million , which of course made an immense difference to life at the National Gallery , not only in the 1980s but for the future . |
| 16 | Would it make any difference to life in this community if there no primary school in Village ? |
| 17 | It is magnificent , but it is not the kind of historical writing that brings a dead world to life for late twentieth-century students . |