Example sentences of "in [adj] life [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 The lesson to be derived was one of moderation : " Not only in the exercise of political power should men of prominence be considerate towards those of low estate , but also in private life they should — if they are sensible — treat their slaves gently .
2 Aloof in temperament , in private life he was pious , charitable , and of a simple way of living .
3 In private life he was very generous , and gave a large sum anonymously to St Edmund Hall , the first £10,000 characteristically arriving in a dirty used envelope .
4 In social life we build personal ‘ constructs ’ ( Kelly 1955 ) and use them to create consistent patterns of relating with others .
5 When you 're in public life you have to put up with er cameras and er things going erm around so and we 're going to be er , completely anonymous in er that , so
6 In the past the case has been based on the wish to delay in unstimulated life it home or admission to a training centre .
7 Forster ( 1962 , p.54 ) says : ‘ In daily life we never understand each other … .
8 Alexander appreciated that since most problems start in early life it should be possible to avoid these with the right teaching .
9 In early life he was employed by Mr R S Woulfe , a Methodist merchant in household and Mr Donovan was converted and had to leave home for employment in the North of Ireland .
10 He recalls in On Some of the Mental Affections of Childhood and Youth ( 1887 ) that in early life he had seen that ‘ children who were afflicted by mental alienation or mental incapacity of any kind ’ were categorized as idiots and considered incapable of responding to help .
11 Hamilton asserted that in ordinary life it was the strong arm of the law and not the strong arm of the husband which protected women from hurt or molestation .
12 In ordinary life it is rare indeed for people to form their beliefs by a process of logical deduction from facts ascertained by a rigorous search for all available evidence and a judicious assessment of its probative value .
13 In real life we 're really pretty shite . ’
14 In real life we may solve the problem that seems to confront us only to find that it is not the most important problem .
15 Whatever else we do tonight , we should reject the cruel illusion that the ERM is the great magic system that can give the people the stability they desire — in real life we can promise that to no one .
16 In real life we see the world through our own eyes .
17 Just as in real life they were assimilating a clinical attitude to human functions , many of which are taboo in Western society , their dreaming interpretations of their own sexuality were also in terms of a medical model .
18 Erm what would present problems in real life I think would be developments of a larger kind than that in which a new settlement er might be one strategic site if we had such a policy might be another .
19 In real life I do !
20 In real life I normally do .
21 Even if the exact number of rounds in the game is not known for certain , in real life it is often possible to make a statistical guess as to how much longer the game is likely to last .
22 This sort of behaviour may be cute and quirky when Tom Hanks does it in a feel-good age-swap movie , but in real life it 's pathetic , regressive , and very very sad .
23 In real life it is really not very likely that six people ( and six is about the right number , pushing upwards to eight and down to a minimum of three , though you have to be skilled to have that few ) will each have good reason for committing the same murder .
24 In real life it would take them some time to get this boat ready to go to sea .
25 In real life it is up to the problem.solver to search around and find the factors that should be taken into consideration and the ones that can safely be left out .
26 In real life it is not unreasonable to expect that the learner may often hear things of which the meaning escapes him .
27 I remember on one occasion I dashed out of the television studios to the bookshop in Norwich without a trace of make-up on and these kids fell off their bikes , saying ‘ Ugh , in real life you do n't look at all like you do on TV . ’ ’
28 ‘ Instead of negotiating a child will look at confrontation — but in real life you ca n't just zap people . ’
29 In real life you will not have this limitation , but it will still be important not to ramble and repeat yourself .
30 Mostly in real life you know what people are going to say . ’
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