Example sentences of "in [adj] life [pron] " 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 political life there is a fierce interest in the poverty , unemployment and poor housing that are a legacy of Britain 's industrial past . |
| 5 | It was not a sudden transformation , but by the late eighties there were precious few figures prominent in political life who were anything other than careerists . |
| 6 | In social life we build personal ‘ constructs ’ ( Kelly 1955 ) and use them to create consistent patterns of relating with others . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ There are a number of bishops in public life who attack bad language . |
| 9 | In public life his guiding principles were Protestantism and protectionism . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | In the past the case has been based on the wish to delay in unstimulated life it home or admission to a training centre . |
| 12 | Yet there was a commonsensical strain in English life which restrained the excesses of ‘ nobs ’ as ‘ mobs ’ . |
| 13 | Forster ( 1962 , p.54 ) says : ‘ In daily life we never understand each other … . |
| 14 | Alexander appreciated that since most problems start in early life it should be possible to avoid these with the right teaching . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Tizard puts a similar , though less emphatic , case in Adoption : A Second Chance , which reports a study that compared children in institutional care in early life who were subsequently adopted , with similar children who were restored to their natural parent . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In real life nothing is ever perfect . |
| 21 | ‘ In real life we 're really pretty shite . ’ |
| 22 | In real life we may solve the problem that seems to confront us only to find that it is not the most important problem . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In real life we see the world through our own eyes . |
| 25 | Mind you , as that would increase the likelihood of seeing in real life what 's on the cover of Jilly Cooper 's Riders , maybe it would be detrimental to showground safety . |
| 26 | He said he does n't look a bit like he in real life what he does in that film does he ? |
| 27 | Obviously it is quite easy to split a subject into relatively free-standing elements , but in real life one has to use knowledge from various ‘ packages ’ to solve problems and some undergraduates do not seem to develop this ability on the modular courses . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In real life I do ! |