Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the survey , dubbed the Frigid 50 , the magazine blames her turbulent private life for her public failure . |
| 2 | In normal economic life such bartering is made unnecessary by the use of money . |
| 3 | For normal political life to be maintained in Northern Ireland , is it not critical to defeat terrorism , and must not that defeat come before political changes or constitutional arrangements ? |
| 4 | Inland there are lovely areas of tranquil rural life well worth exploring . |
| 5 | ‘ Beautiful soft sand neighbouring inland areas of tranquil rural life . ’ |
| 6 | Not much has been made of this migration , some ethnic tension apart , and even less of the fact that in the years since the second world war it has been essential for western European economic life . |
| 7 | I 'd forgotten what a delicious meal tea could be ; and sitting there I felt invaded by the envy of the man who lives in an institution , and has to put up with institution meals and institution everything else , for the rich private life of the established . |
| 8 | The army was , of course , to play a recurring part in Spanish political life in the twentieth century with the Nationalist insurrection against the second republic , and before that , the dictatorship of General Primo de Rivera from 1923 until 1931 . |
| 9 | After Casaubon Polybius is to be found in many bypaths of European political life . |
| 10 | From the time of the Emperor Charles V ( 1519–56 ) onwards the idea , if not the phrase itself , was part of the common currency of European political life . |
| 11 | In spite of an inauspicious beginning , Laura and Bernard succeeded within a few years in developing an absorbing private life in their adopted country . |
| 12 | ‘ A strange old life . ’ |
| 13 | To be sure , the great apes behave so intelligently and have such a rich social life that it seemed extraordinary to many people that they could not learn to speak . |
| 14 | Even prior to redundancy , many of the women did not have a particularly extensive social life because of the constraints of their working and domestic lives . |
| 15 | Cummings and Henry interpreted this as a ‘ natural ’ process arising from the individual 's loss of skill , energy and determination in coping with the pressures of mainstream social life . |
| 16 | Similarly , a respectable suburban life may well be suppressed by an individual who wants to retain credibility amongst the gang . |
| 17 | As crowds headed back into the West End after a 1,000lb IRA bomb was defused , the Met 's Commissioner-in-waiting Paul Condon said normal daily life must go on . |
| 18 | John Veltri , a Canadian priest , struggling with the idea of a retreat which would reach more people , devised a form of prayer week which would allow people to enjoy the spiritual benefits of a retreat whilst still going about their normal daily lives . |
| 19 | One IRA bomb attack later and what was derided as her paranoia is already assimilated as normal public life . |
| 20 | Lochhead 's script is a joy , depicting through its energetic vernacular dialogue the texture of small-town Scottish life in the period , when girls carried bottles of Evening in Paris in their knickers and were in love with Montgomery Clift ; when the pictures cost 1/9d and the Locarno Ballroom on Sauchiehall Street was the place to be on a Saturday night , while at home fathers sat taciturn in armchairs , not listening to their wives . |
| 21 | Those who would have fallen ill even under moderate sexual restrictions succumb to illness all the earlier and more severely under the demands of our present civilized sexual morality ; for we know no better security against the menace to normal sexual life caused by defective predisposition and disturbances in development than sexual satisfaction itself . |
| 22 | She 's developed a steady business and a strong social life at her church . |
| 23 | It would make a pleasant diversion in a rather low social life , and in the company of other people she would be able to give Luke a wide berth during the evening . |
| 24 | Semi-chosen austerity : a rich cultural life in green pastures with fruit : unchosen semi-hardship . |
| 25 | South Korea , Japan , China and the Soviet Union have agreed to form a regional environmental co-operation committee aimed at limiting waste disposal , preventing accidents , and preserving marine life . |
| 26 | Hidden behind a shrine-like structure are two touch-screen video programmes , designed to introduce visitors to Korean daily life as well as to provide background information on the more important exhibits . |
| 27 | In normal commercial life , no one would dream of doing such a thing . |
| 28 | A few successful trips to restaurants will not only be enjoyable for the patient , but they will boost his confidence and help him to realize that he can take part in normal social life . |
| 29 | If she lives on her own and poor health has robbed her of a normal social life , it is to be expected that her loneliness may have created such a build-up of unexpressed thoughts , feelings and opinions that she may need to talk herself to a standstill before she is ready to converse with you , and interest herself in anything you have to say . |
| 30 | ‘ I think she misses our normal social life more than we do . ’ |