Example sentences of "[adj] life have " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Clive felt that their sexual life had deteriorated severely since marriage and that it was now well below par . |
| 2 | Produced by Ugine , the world 's largest stainless steel producer , since 1970 , its attractive lead-like weathered appearance and long maintenance free life have made it very successful , and since then over 5 million square metres have been used in roofing and cladding applications . |
| 3 | Once the ‘ ordinary ’ needs of daily life have been successfully provided , mentally disordered people living in the community need regular skilled review of their mental state to ensure that medical , nursing and psychological expertise is used to best effect to minimize the impact of the disorder . |
| 4 | The increased importance of computers in daily life has led to an improvement in corpora . |
| 5 | As child-care is easily available and children are integrated into daily life having a child does not automatically exclude a woman from her previous lifestyle as is so often the case in Britain . |
| 6 | The familiar and approved accounts of Scottish life have long favoured a country of hills and fields and firesides , where braw lads and bonny lasses dance reels and go on , after early struggles , to better things ; where the best thing of all is the kind landed family that comes up from London to visit them , famous for its stables , castles and ceremonies . |
| 7 | They will last longest where tribal life has always been urban , for instance amongst the Asante in Kumasi , or the Yoruba in Ibadan . |
| 8 | He was bearing the cold and damp better than he had in the previous year , but these winter months were a time when proper life had to give way to the struggle merely to exist . |
| 9 | During the past three days of the voyage her first contact for many years with French life had begun to stir long-forgotten feelings in her . |
| 10 | Over the last two decades , then , the place of the university in German life has become most sharply focused on the teaching rather than the research role of the university , and the academics . |
| 11 | In an editorial on 2 November 1985 , headlined ‘ Unfinished Business ’ , it asked ‘ whether the structures and institutions of British life have been so shaken by six years of Mrs Thatcher that they can no longer fall back into their old ways — or whether more shaking is needed ? ’ |
| 12 | It is encouraging that an exhibition on Polish-Jewish life has opened in Krakow . |
| 13 | West Bank political , economic and social life had been notable throughout the period since 1920 for its localism . |
| 14 | When seen for their final treatment session , 7 weeks after the overdose , the couple 's improved social life had been maintained . |
| 15 | In Abyssinia the limited social life had not mattered to her , since she had her husband . |
| 16 | For over a century the control of certain aspects of British social life has rested in the hands of the police forces of England and Wales . |
| 17 | Street-fighting and village brawls at football matches were so much a part of ‘ traditional ’ society that we tend to forget how relatively civilized modern social life has become . |
| 18 | Where social life has been jettisoned altogether in order to give adequate care , life without the dependent parent may seem empty and lonely . |
| 19 | One of the most notable and significant aspects of the more complex societies which emerged in the course of modern history has been the extent to which social life has been moulded by associations of private persons concerned with promoting a wide range of activities from local government , education , the professions , the arts and sports to a widening area of hobbies and pursuits . |
| 20 | Hall is philosophical about the sacrifices which a musical career demands , and feels that she had a ‘ fairly normal childhood ’ , and only felt deprived in her late teenage years , when ‘ the social life has to go , and you tend to form passing acquaintances rather than real friendships . ’ |
| 21 | As fundamental aspects of social life have changed , so have the perceptions of the nature of life , its problems , pleasures , responsibilities and duties . |
| 22 | it denies that the regularities detectable in social life have the character of the immutable regularities of the physical world . |
| 23 | Reasons are not clear-cut , but various aspects of rural social life have been suggested . |
| 24 | Of course , aspects of social life have been measured for almost as long as history . |
| 25 | His judicial appointments were much criticized on the ground in effect that ‘ Halsbury appointed to the High Court , and to a lesser extent to the county court , men of little or no legal learning whose previous career in public life had been largely in the service of the Conservative Party or else were relations of his own ’ . |
| 26 | Andrewes ' qualities and weaknesses in public life have been commented upon by his later biographers . |
| 27 | The hon. Gentleman has clearly forgotten that , for example , Lady Callaghan was an excellent chairman of Great Ormond Street hospital and a number of other wives of eminent people in public life have held that position . |
| 28 | FEW men in public life have so successfully concealed their activities and provoked such controversy and mystery as Roland ‘ Tiny ’ Rowland . |
| 29 | We have lost our sense of how extraordinarily abnormal public life has become . |
| 30 | But old habits die hard , especially those fashioned in the Pontypool front row , and the easy life has been postponed for yet another season . |