Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] life in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members experience less work-related stress and are better adjusted to life in the organization . |
| 2 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 3 | Some of us are more mentally productive before midday ; others only come to life in the second half of the day . |
| 4 | Chandos , as narrator , describes the two who have agreed to remain loving friends with the luscious approval that ‘ suddenly faced with life in the midst of death , two natures so alike and so peerless should have comforted each other ’ ; they have in fact exchanged a kiss . |
| 5 | But although he learnt such skills as writing feasibility studies , he soon tired of life in the grant-aided voluntary sector . |
| 6 | He claimed that they soon adapted to life in captivity and became useful pest-controllers . |
| 7 | With this faint translucent grey the face , pose and clothing were rapidly sketched from life in a free and speculative manner although care had to be exercised around the face where the tint of grey would also shade the flesh . |
| 8 | Was there maybe a sneaking feeling that , if he was n't laughing at her , he was usually laughing at life in general , and that he might be quite fun to be with ? |
| 9 | Catherine Moore , 19 , of Daniels Court , Middlesbrough , was still clinging to life in hospital last night . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Simmering personal animosity between Bush and Perot also flared into life in June as a result of claims that Perot had employed a team of investigators to scrutinize the private lives of numerous public figures , including the President and members of his family . |
| 12 | The rare Himalayan tahr — a distant relative of the mountain goat — has also adapted to life in harsh mountainous conditions . |
| 13 | But another modern man also comes to life in the eighteenth century : the ‘ collective man ’ . |
| 14 | Disney animator , Carl Barks created the ultimate stretch limo for his character ; now brought to life in 3D by Connoisseur , a Ledbury firm that specialises in producing elaborate porcelain sculptures . |
| 15 | All penguins are flightless but are perfectly adapted to life in water and to withstanding cold . |
| 16 | I think my characters could really come to life in a film ’ . |
| 17 | I think my characters could really come to life in a film ’ . |
| 18 | This A4 notebook is really meant for life in the air or on the road . |
| 19 | All parties realize this , and so protectionism acts as a bargaining counter for the rich , and a bluff for the poor , and mainly comes to life in its use as a rhetorical device to satisfy domestic constituencies . |
| 20 | These fish are best bought when young , as the larger wild-caught ones very rarely adapt to life in an aquarium , refusing food no matter what persuasion is used . |
| 21 | The Herdwick is the hardiest of all breeds in the Lake District , and it is particularly suited to life in the fells . |
| 22 | Their long arms are particularly well adapted to life in trees . |
| 23 | Others were convinced that they 'd be well suited to life in combat uniform . |
| 24 | Described as ‘ cold , haughty , melancholy and dull ’ , he at least came to life in the splendour of his books , some eight hundred of which are in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris . |
| 25 | Wise move : Breeders of barn owls will need a licence to release them into the wild from January to stop them being freed into unsuitable areas ill equipped for life in the wild . |
| 26 | THE Kama Sutra , for 2,000 years the Lover 's lexicon , is beautifully brought to life in this new video.It is artistic , tasteful yet powerfully erotic . |
| 27 | The Kama Sutra , for 2,000 years the Lover 's lexicon , is beautifully brought to life in the new video . |
| 28 | Some wrasse are quite unsuitable to be accommodated within the invertebrate , or reef tank , but the genus Cirrhilabrus embraces a ‘ full house ’ of species seemingly eminently suited to life in the reef aquarium . |