Example sentences of "[noun] life was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every opportunity to maximise the differences between school and college life was seized . |
| 2 | Nevertheless the idyllic side of undergraduate life was there to be enjoyed — though short on male companions as the pre-war ratio of male and female undergraduates was about reversed . |
| 3 | After all , club life was intended to serve as a practical course in citizenship . |
| 4 | For Williams , home life was an intellectual void . |
| 5 | Overall , she inspired great loyalty , respect and love , but her home life was often fraught and it is impossible to appreciate the extent of her achievement in commercial terms if unaware of the friction in her domestic life . |
| 6 | Soon the strain was showing and his home life was going wrong . |
| 7 | The village life was quite feudal still . |
| 8 | The village was mentioned in the Domesday Book and the entry indicates village life was thriving and there was a population of at least 250 . |
| 9 | Village life was community life where the church , home , and work , were the living and connected cells of a functioning organism . |
| 10 | We used to , we , that 's all the as the village life was , it was it was all very now I know it 's very interesting , my daughter wants me to write a book about it , she says , I said I 'll oh I do n't know mm , write a memoirs mum she said er , you know and I said you know a lot about New Invention , which I do but it 's Willenhall you 're interested in , but it all sort or entails the lot and erm there might be things I 've can I wish I 'd have told you if I can think about them after it 's finished , but it 's erm . |
| 11 | For instance , if the interviewer is carrying out an interview with an old inhabitant of a village to try to find out what the community life was like 50 years ago he will probably have a set of categories for enquiry . |
| 12 | This was founded in 1938 by George MacLeod ( now the 95-year-old Very Reverend Lord MacLeod of Fuinary ) , a Church of Scotland minister who believed that the root of community life was shared work . |
| 13 | Outside school — and maritime mishaps — community life was restricted when compared to modern standards . |
| 14 | We failed to realise that product life was more important than machinery life . |
| 15 | For weeks life was very difficult as they both tried not to upset each other , even slightly . |
| 16 | He understood that monarchs must make a show and his court life was suitably magnificent . |
| 17 | This restrained attitude did , at least , enable farm cats and some town cats to live a tolerable life as unloved pest-controllers , but for certain village cats life was far more unpleasant . |
| 18 | In many ways life was easier for both of them . |
| 19 | What a muddle life was . |
| 20 | In the smaller villages of the Sierras life was isolated and stagnant , a degraded survival , semi-pastoral , semi-agricultural , with timber as an important source of income . |
| 21 | Though I was a student of literature and , I believe , a reasonably good teacher , and loved my work , and though I was , moreover , a serious poet who had gained some small recognition in circles even outside my own University , my writing life was not confined to poems and articles , or even lectures . |
| 22 | We can learn very much from Thoreau most of whose adult life was a kind of retirement . |
| 23 | This was the day when his adult life was going to begin , he told himself . |
| 24 | Her whole adult life was a triumph of determination over a body that could have condemned her to permanent invalidism . |
| 25 | adult life was spent in South Africa , and erm I found a couple of years ago two books written by a remarkable while English-speaking South African called Donald Woods , who was a newspaper editor , who befriended and then championed a remarkable young black South African called Steve Beeko , who was killed in police detention . |
| 26 | You may be familiar with those sorts of stories which say my convent life was hell with the Sisters of Mercy er that kind of story about er church organisations that absolute not to show er Christian qualities in the way that they are organised is quite true that often Christian organisations do find it hard to show forgiveness . |
| 27 | The well-established agricultural divisions of the county were reinforced by medieval practices , but perhaps the greatest contribution to Sussex life was the extension of settlement much deeper into the Weald , the piecemeal annual clearings going much farther than before . |
| 28 | The agricultural base that had offered wealth and apparent stability to Sussex life was steadily weakened in the course of the eighteenth century . |
| 29 | What a tease life was , to be sure ! |
| 30 | The inner coherence of Masai life was destroyed by the implied contempt . |