Example sentences of "life [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not know how to tell her that he was very , very sorry for being small , and for snivelling , and for ruining her life so that she could not go to America to be a film-star . |
| 2 | Acceptance , as used here , means that people begin to absorb the experience into their everyday life so that it can be coped with instead of dominating their every thought . |
| 3 | When , for instance , the hero in a book or film sacrifices his life so that someone else may live , this is portrayed as extremely praiseworthy and is the subject-matter of much literature . |
| 4 | ‘ I know what their intentions are , which are to enhance the individual 's life so that collectively we are all enhanced — to try to do stuff out of the mould of the old politics , which the three main parties are dealing with . |
| 5 | The participant makes a choice to enter make-believe play , a game or drama ( all three require an ‘ as if ’ gloss , although in the game form it is rarely explicit — charades might be the exception ) ; he enters the make-believe play , game or drama with the intention of temporarily ‘ bracketing off ’ practical life so that he might experience this specially contrived ‘ present ’ . |
| 6 | A sign of our having grown up is not just that we would n't listen to a Top Twenty single even if by any chance we could , but that we organize life so that we will never have to listen , by chance , to a Top Twenty single . |
| 7 | Men in the West seem to fear this dichotomy , although it is not a separation but more a reorganisation of life so that the spiritual gains the most important part and the rest of life falls into place beneath . |
| 8 | It simplifies life so that the mind can comprehend itself better . |
| 9 | Helping parents in this way is an attempt to provide them with child-management skills for life so that they can generate solutions to many of the problems they face without reference to professionals at all . |
| 10 | The ‘ alimony drone ’ — the leech-woman whose divorce gives her a meal ticket for life so that she can spend her days lolling by a pool peeling grapes while ex-hubby slaves twenty hours a day to earn enough to keep in her in luxury — does not exist here . |
| 11 | Sometimes Julia slept , dreaming of horribly twisted versions of real life so that it was hard to tell when she was awake and worrying and when asleep and tormented . |
| 12 | If there is a good argument for producing your own acted scenes with non-actors , try to give them roles similar to their own in real life so that they can play themselves as far as possible . |
| 13 | Applying the principles of the 12 Steps in all aspects of life so that they become a natural way of life and provide the capacity to live happily and confidently without the need for mood-altering substances or behaviours . |
| 14 | My friends , let's just remember this night that as we 've shared bread and wine together , we 've reaffirmed that Jesus Christ gave his life so that we might live . |
| 15 | It is an effective method especially if the charge affects daily life so that the trained group can be seen to operate differently and can be asked for advice frequently . |
| 16 | A communiqué published on Jan. 23 by the presidency of the European Communities ( EC ) expressed a strong hope that " the Algerian authorities will undertake every possible effort for a return to normal institutional life so that … the democratic process will pursue a stable course " . |
| 17 | A doctor , Alvarez was alleged to have participated in the 1985 torture and murder of DEA agent Enrique Camarena-Salazar by helping to prolong the agent 's life so that the drug-traffickers who had captured him could continue to interrogate him . |
| 18 | This learning will be related to two other areas of the student 's life so that transferability of the process skills involved in the module can be realised and accentuated . |
| 19 | No desire to tidy up his life so that it could be handed over to someone else . |
| 20 | Bloom must accept a particular life so that Joyce need not , and Stephen must be shown in his byronic self-deception so that Joyce need not . |
| 21 | Hi-Tech and more sleekly designed kitchens look good with white tiled floors whether ceramic or vinyl , but again you could use cork and vinyl , or composition tiles or even linoleum which has taken on a new lease of life now that people have realised how well it can look inlaid with other colours . |
| 22 | Maybe Maria Luisa was such a deep part of his life now that there was no hope for their future . |
| 23 | ACTRESS Mia Farrow does not have a new man in her life now that she has split up with film director Woody Allen . |
| 24 | I was so frightened you 'd walk out of my life again that I sank to ignominious depths to keep you close to me . ’ |