Example sentences of "life than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I began to think that you had more lives than a cat . ’ |
| 2 | Even though a patient aged 80 years will usually face a higher operative mortality and a shorter expectation of life than a patient aged 40 years , it does not follow that surgery is not worthwhile for the 80 year old . |
| 3 | ‘ It was much more a celebration of his life than a mourning of his death . |
| 4 | Kolchinsky 's pedantic approach towards the expense accounts had given rise to a joke amongst the field operatives that it would be better to lose a life than a chit . |
| 5 | ‘ She obviously decided there was more to life than a ship 's doctor had to offer . ’ |
| 6 | Hinduism is followed by 85 per cent of India 's population and is more a way of life than a religion . |
| 7 | I mean what what gives you more right to life than an animal does ? |
| 8 | She was doing what all men hated : holding a post-mortem on an event which was no more important in the scheme of life than the enjoyment of a good wine ! |
| 9 | I 've seen more of life than the majority of people my age . |
| 10 | It seemed to have more life than the photograph . ’ |
| 11 | However backward in some respects , its educational level was high , and it was certainly better adapted in 1880 to the demands and discipline of industrial life than the population of any other part of the world except North America . |
| 12 | Calvinists had got no nearer to the truth about life than the Pope . |
| 13 | Few could have been less suited for the military life than the historian Edward Gibbon who , as he admitted in his Autobiography , ‘ never handled a gun … seldom mounted a horse ’ but , living with his father , a country gentleman , at Buriton , near Petersfield , he felt obliged to apply for a commission as a captain in the South battalion of the Hampshire militia , 476 strong , of which his father became major and a local nobleman , ‘ after a prolix and passionate contest ’ with the Lord Lieutenant , lieut. -colonel . |
| 14 | I have n't enjoyed anything more in my whole life than the shooting we 've had here . " |
| 15 | There is more to life than the mind , young woman . ’ |