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 stories appear along the lines that in another life you were a peasant girl who starved to death during Ireland 's potato famine you know you 've arrived . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | In the past the case has been based on the wish to delay in unstimulated life it home or admission to a training centre . |
| 8 | Forster ( 1962 , p.54 ) says : ‘ In daily life we never understand each other … . |
| 9 | Alexander appreciated that since most problems start in early life it should be possible to avoid these with the right teaching . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ In real life we 're really pretty shite . ’ |
| 15 | In real life we may solve the problem that seems to confront us only to find that it is not the most important problem . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In real life we see the world through our own eyes . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In real life I do ! |
| 21 | In real life I normally do . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ In real life it would take them some time to get this boat ready to go to sea . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In real life it is not unreasonable to expect that the learner may often hear things of which the meaning escapes him . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Instead of negotiating a child will look at confrontation — but in real life you ca n't just zap people . ’ |
| 30 | In real life you will not have this limitation , but it will still be important not to ramble and repeat yourself . |