Example sentences of "[adj] marriage be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , I 'm a long way from being young enough to imagine , as you do , that marriage is the answer to all life 's little problems . |
| 2 | But one thing he was sure he had learnt was that Marriage was no part of any conspiracy , had indeed no useful friends left . |
| 3 | But from when she had been sixteen and had left the Dame School and stepped right into the home life above the shop , it had been borne into her that marriage was a humdrum affair : two people lived together , apparently happy , yet went their own ways , as shown by her parents ; they did n't think alike , yet they did n't argue ; they never laughed at the same things , nor did local or national events affect them in the same way . |
| 4 | On another occasion he declared that marriage was a partnership where his wife was not simply marrying the man but a way of life . |
| 5 | She felt no particular guilt : merely that marriage was a kind of old-fashioned scale : a tray on either side in which the fors and againsts had somehow to be kept in balance , and that extramarital sex had sometimes to be heaped on one side just to keep it steady because indefinable things were piling on the other . |
| 6 | Herbert Spencer ( 1820–1903 ) protested that marriage was an unequal institution , and that women should have equal rights of competition with men , but in his later writing he reversed this opinion and declared that ‘ if women comprehended all that is contained in the domestic sphere , they would ask no other ’ . |
| 7 | All marriages are special occasions but a second marriage is a doubly precious time because you do not take everything for granted . |
| 8 | His second marriage is a marriage of conformity . |
| 9 | COUPLES who are both on their second marriage are a lot more likley to get divorced , with figures having increased 100 per cent from 6,300 in 1980 to 12,848 in 1990 . |
| 10 | The seven years of his second marriage were a stable and satisfying period for Howard and the time when he largely established himself as a country gentleman . |
| 11 | It certainly might have helped Diana to listen and learn from counselling sessions , where other couples ' problems are aired and discussed ; but there is no doubt that by taking on the role of patron at a time when the world was prophesying doom for her own marriage was an exceptionally brave thing for her to do . |
| 12 | Also a minor marriage was a much cheaper option for the parents than a major marriage and was , therefore , considered to be socially disgraceful . |
| 13 | For this reason , a Christian marriage is a like an opened door , through which we see new visions , and walk out into a vast panorama we never knew existed . |
| 14 | Christian marriage is no less than the unity of two people , living out the reality of Christ 's coming , death and resurrection in their lives together . |