Example sentences of "life have [been] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , young lady , I wanted to be good when I was younger , but life has been a struggle for me , and I 've become as hard and tough as a rubber ball . |
| 2 | Most of Emecheta 's life has been a fight to get what she feels is her due . |
| 3 | ‘ So far my whole life has been a comedy . ’ |
| 4 | Now I know that all my life has been a flight |
| 5 | Throughout his career Chaplin took every care to sustain the idea that his life had been a kind of Victorian romance and perhaps if we allow for certain embellishments we can accept this interpretation as legitimate . |
| 6 | He claimed that his life had been a misery since he sold the recording of Di talking to her friend James Gilbey . |
| 7 | He told the paper that his life had been a torment after his arrest and explained that a simple error had led to his misfortune . |
| 8 | My personal life had been a disaster : I had had a lousy relationship with my mother ; been frightened of my father ; from time to time my marriage had been close to the rocks and I had been an uncaring father . |
| 9 | His early academic record was unimpressive , and his private life had been a disaster ; while he worked late hours in the animal house or grudgingly fulfilled occasional lecture commitments , two senior geography students and half the fencing team were back home screwing his wife . |