Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [adj] life for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liberal improvers , progressive Conservatives and socialists found themselves sharing some common ground in this assumption that it was the duty of the State to provide a better life for its citizens and which found expression in support for comprehensive social welfare , a national health service and a more humane treatment of those in need . |
| 2 | These are variable , of course , but in many cases there are severe psychological after-effects — trauma , fear , and mistrust — which deeply affect the victim 's ability to lead a normal life for some time to come . |
| 3 | Do your utmost to create a good life for yourself here and now . |
| 4 | Called WIN — Work and Income for the Nineties — it offers a package of reforms to promote a better life for all Canadians . |
| 5 | Rather , we seek an Iraq which uses its great resources … to build a better life for itself and its neighbours . |
| 6 | Instead , it is argued that they must be " impelled towards them not out of fear and guilt but because of a positive desire to build a better life for students , themselves and other members of society . |
| 7 | In an attempt to build a new life for himself and his daughter , Paul Kersey takes a job managing a radio station in Chicago . |
| 8 | As Alicia begins to build a new life for herself she is increasingly drawn towards the brusque yet magnetic charms of the Cornishman who owns Tresco , a remote ranch near the High Sierras . |
| 9 | More recently , the couple made a brave effort to live a normal life for the children . |
| 10 | John , 43 , whose weight has dropped to 8st 12lb , said that he tried to live a normal life for as long as possible . |
| 11 | So for one reason or another , people stay on for years in Special Hospitals , sometimes hundreds of miles from their home area , denied the opportunity to develop a normal life for themselves again . |
| 12 | He is quite ready to use his abrasive manner in an effort to get a better life for the orphans . |
| 13 | No , I assure you of that but , well , for one thing the Elsie I knew made it clear to me that she wished to make a new life for herself , start more or less from scratch . |
| 14 | You can start to make a new life for yourself . |
| 15 | Her surprise stemmed from the fact she had walked out on him two years earlier , sworn her friends to secrecy and moved hundreds of miles to make a new life for herself . |
| 16 | After leaving Devon the family had gone to Lancashire for work in the mills there and later started to make a new life for themselves in South Africa . |
| 17 | She had fought hard to make a new life for herself — and there was absolutely no room in it for her husband . |
| 18 | And if you 're determined to make a new life for yourself , Jessamy , it would be much better for you if you did n't end the old one on a sour note . |
| 19 | Now Bob has been appointed Stoke Mandeville 's Independent Living Advocate … helping others with severe spinal injuries to make a new life for themselves . |
| 20 | This is not to say that there are not many households where there is peace and contentment , when the old person is fortunate enough to keep well in mind and body even when she becomes frail , and where the daughter prefers to remain at home , and is able to make a satisfying life for herself . |
| 21 | Save The Children is helping families to rebuild the ghettos , to make a better life for themselves and the next generation . |
| 22 | If the Community is truly to mean a better life for the people of the United Kingdom and all the people of the Community — women as well as men , ethnic minorities as well as the white majority — then the EC 's future development can not simply be ‘ left to the market ’ . |