Example sentences of "have a [adj] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just to go out into the night can give a sense of this ; night is not empty darkness — the night can be warm , or stormy , still or windy , and the darkness is charged by this and has a changing life of its own . |
| 2 | Nigel has a new life with his family in Florida . |
| 3 | Not because he ca n't live without her ( he has a new life , new partner and new home ) but because he has to know what happened . |
| 4 | Not because he ca n't live without her ( he has a new life , new partner and new home ) but because he has to know what happened . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | For one who has a strenuous life it is necessary , absolutely necessary in order to keep sane and well . |
| 8 | Like many cephalopods , it has a curious life cycle : after growing very rapidly , reaching sexual maturity in just four months , it dies after a single breeding session . |
| 9 | If properly fitted to the shaft the boot has a long life . |
| 10 | The nation-state is inevitably becoming weaker as power goes both up to Europe and down to regions and districts , but it has a long life yet , and the British people have many uses for it . |
| 11 | The second must be that he or she has a long life . |
| 12 | The MacDonalds box has a useful life of only several minutes , but languishes for decades in litter or landfill . |
| 13 | Every member of staff has a private life which should be respected ? |
| 14 | Awkwardly he said , ‘ A person has a private life . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The species has a short life under water , and lives up to 6 months in the aquarium . |
| 18 | Suppose a machine which has a known life of only two years is expected to yield £242 each year . |
| 19 | Suppose a machine has a known life of only one year and is expected to yield £450 at the end of that year . |
| 20 | His mission is to assure that everyone he comes across has a happy life . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | On top of that it has a whole life of its own with sports , a nightly disco , live music , and a daily English film . |
| 23 | Catnip is an example ; Nepeta cataria is the true herb and is the catnip that has a hard life if a cat is part of the household , but Nepeta x faassenii , also sometimes called catnip , is the usual species grown in gardens , with little if any attraction for cats , though it is always alive with bees when in flower . |
| 24 | He has a comfortable life in west Los Angeles ; he dates a movie mogul 's ex-wife ; he wants for nothing . |
| 25 | Frances has a comfortable life in many ways . |
| 26 | It has a digenetic life cycle , alternating between a bloodstream stage in the mammalian host and a procyclic stage in the tsetse fly vector ( 4 ) . |
| 27 | On the whole , George Milton is a good , honest man who has a difficult life to lead , looking after Lennie the simple giant . |
| 28 | O. ostertagi has a direct life cycle . |
| 29 | No , I still think Old Red has a tough life . |
| 30 | My mouth 's had a new life since that day . |