Example sentences of "[noun sg] have a [adj] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose a machine has a known life of only one year and is expected to yield £450 at the end of that year . |
| 2 | Patients presenting with metastasis of unknown origin have a mean life expectancy of only four months so most diagnostic methods occupy a large proportion of the patient 's remaining life and identification of the primary site only rarely influences the choice of treatment . |
| 3 | Within the everyday repetition of television — the routines of presentation , the everlasting serials , the standardizations of time-slot — difference has a short life , the unexpected quickly instituted as an expectation . |
| 4 | And she , too , had something of the precision and contrived charm of a doll with an almost round head poised ’ on a long delicate neck , a snub nose with a splatter of freckles , a small mouth with a full upper lip beautifully curved and a bristle of cropped hair , originally fair but with bright orange tips which caught the sun and trembled in the breeze so that the whole head seemed for a moment to have a vivid life separated from the rest of her body and , the image changing , he had seen her as a bright exotic flower . |
| 5 | He says people of the period had a hard life , but when they celebrated they did it in style . |
| 6 | If properly fitted to the shaft the boot has a long life . |
| 7 | Awkwardly he said , ‘ A person has a private life . |
| 8 | No , I still think Old Red has a tough life . |
| 9 | Pottery has a limited life , determined by the function of the vessels , and thus store jars kept secure in a pantry may remain intact for several generations , while cooking pots , if in constant use , have a very short life . |
| 10 | And archivists like it , because if the medium carrying the recording has a limited life , it is possible to copy the sound to another medium without any degradation taking place . |
| 11 | A basic page printer has a rated life ; Canon engines are good for 3,000 pages per month , Ricoh 's can handle 5,000 , and you should expect them to last around three years at the full rated use . |
| 12 | The MacDonalds box has a useful life of only several minutes , but languishes for decades in litter or landfill . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , this peculiar combination had a long life and was destined to reappear in the Middle Ages as the Albigensian heresy that flourished for a while in southern France but was eventually crushed in the first quarter of the thirteenth century by the northern French at the command of the most powerful of the medieval Popes , Innocent III . |
| 14 | He was saying that in order to have a greater life , you have to have a strong awareness of death . |
| 15 | The monarch had a ceremonial life , open to the whole political nation , and a more secluded — though scarcely a private — life out of the general view . |
| 16 | Holiday had a hopeless life . |
| 17 | Katherine had drawn it all with snail-like whorls of her pen , a multitude of curving strokes , so that the landscape had a hectic life of its own , at once like and unlike itself . |
| 18 | Would someone with terminal cancer have a better life expectancy than someone who was publicly known to have ratted on the Maniax ? ’ |
| 19 | At last he said to himself , " Even the birds of the air and the fish of the sea have a better life than I , for at least they have companions . |
| 20 | It is worth emphasizing here that because an option has a finite life and expires it can involve the investor in a 100 per cent loss . |