Example sentences of "end [prep] a [adj] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overall , it could by the end of the transitional phase claim that it had changed the basis of economic competition by removing many restrictive practices and that it had eased some of the pain of economic decline by its policies towards those aging coal and steel plants that were coming to the end of a useful life . |
| 2 | She pointed out that the piebald donkey in leather boots that had for years pulled the mowing machine which cut the acres of grass at Deer Forest , was at the end of a useful life , and , in any case , the whole performance took up two working days of the farm labourer who drove her in long reins — reins thin as thread and cracked with age : there was nothing economical about that . |
| 3 | It 's not much to ask for , at the end of a long life . ’ |
| 4 | Even Archibald earl of Argyll , nearing the end of a long life noted mainly for a remarkable inability to make decisions , now found ‘ boldness ’ in him ; he ‘ reformed many things ’ , we are told , and , despite the strictures of archbishop Hamilton , he maintained the Protestant preacher John Douglas in his household . |
| 5 | ‘ A Winter Too Many ’ was the elegiac end of a besieged life … the enthralling thing about Hannah , when Barry Cockcroft made that first documentary , ‘ Too Long A Winter ’ , was not the things she managed without : warmth , water , company , money . |
| 6 | For some , the first grey hairs , facial lines and signs of gravity taking over may herald the end of a meaningful life . |
| 7 | He noticed too that for the first time since he had arrived at the Cages there was a total silence , as if all the eagles , and all the imprisoned creatures thereabout had instinctively understood that this old eagle 's troubled painful words marked an end to a terrible life ; and perhaps in some strange way the beginning of something none dared hope might come to pass . |