Example sentences of "for a life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brief Ecstasy ( 1937 ) , for example , is a powerful drama centring on a woman who has married her professor and abandoned work for a life ‘ sitting all day knitting jumpers for my husband ’ , who is then thrown into a whirlpool of desire when her one-time lover arrives at the marital home . |
| 2 | I 'm just using ‘ adolescent ’ as a handy signifier for a life of restlessness , impatience and insatiability . |
| 3 | I am eager for new faces , for a life elsewhere . |
| 4 | Early this year I secluded myself up here for a life of quiet , concentrated study and meditation , rediscovering myself in the vastness and solitude of the mountains . |
| 5 | Perhaps he will settle for a life on the back benches , cushioned by his massive majority , but it can not be the most exciting prospect in the world . |
| 6 | David might simply have been overwhelmed by his financial responsibilities towards his mother , and could see no immediate future for a life with you and did n't want to tie you down . |
| 7 | The psychologist worked on the assumption that Dawn should prepare herself for a life of dependency on others , so he did not try to motivate her towards self-sufficiency . |
| 8 | He was taught the trade of a blacksmith but , like so many from that village , elected for a life at sea . |
| 9 | One day she was poor little Hannah from up Birk Hatt , struggling on her own since her folk died , the shy , quiet lass destined for a life of continued obscurity . |
| 10 | And once I realised that I could swap this grievous toil for a life of tropical beaches , sweet-thighed maidens and minimal taxation , well , you can see how the choice became all-too simple . |
| 11 | The model later came to Glasgow to pose for a life painting course . |
| 12 | He said that Lubavitch offered counselling for parents distressed by the prospect of their children throwing up a lucrative career for a life of prayer . |
| 13 | My father 's passion for Tracey Childs prepared me for a life of drama |
| 14 | For if not then ultimately there is no meaning to survival ; for a life whose meaning stands and falls on whether one escapes or not … ultimately would not be worth living at all ’ |
| 15 | At the time this article was written , that company had just launched a bond at 8% for a life of five years . |
| 16 | Consolidated Life , also recommended by Chase de Vere ( 071–404 5766 ) , was offering 8.05% for £2,000 to £4,999 for a life of three , four or seven years . |
| 17 | His background hardly prepared him for a life of elegant luxury as a film star or obedience to the star system . |
| 18 | ‘ You have to look ahead to the time when you leave football , and I wanted to prepare for a life in sport and leisure management , ’ he said . |
| 19 | The model later came to Glasgow to pose for a life painting course . |
| 20 | THE Street 's publican Alec Gilroy is to quit the Rovers Return — for a life on the ocean wave . |
| 21 | Lutyens 's underlying sense of inferiority , the result of an impoverished childhood and lack of public school education , was in part responsible for a life beset with financial and marital despondency . |
| 22 | He had taken a sabbatical that autumn from the family business , opted for a life , or , more accurately , a few weeks , on the ocean wave . |
| 23 | While Diana seemed destined for a life of unskilled , low-paying jobs , she was not that much out of the ordinary for girls of her class and background . |
| 24 | To take a few examples : J. Uvedale asked Thomas Cromwell in 1537 to find him a place with the King or with Prince Edward ; Ralph Sadler asked Cromwell to help him obtain from the Bishop of London the keepership of a park in Essex ; John Varney wanted Cromwell to get the King 's signature approving his petition for a life patent of his stewardship of Berkhamsted and King 's Langley ; Lord Sheffield hinted to Robert Cecil that he would like the vacant position of Lord Chamberlain ; and so on . |
| 25 | Thus informed and protected you are ready — but only if it seems right for you — to embark upon a sexual journey that will last in one way or another for a life time . |
| 26 | It was a frightful time , people were dying and dying — how could one hang on , she asked herself , to one 's private plan for a life ? |
| 27 | The £30,000-a-year worker , making a £5,000 investment under the Business Expansion Scheme , together with relief on a £30,000 mortgage , £1,500 into an approved pension scheme and a £200 annual premium for a life assurance policy , reduced his marginal tax rate from 38.9 per cent to 19 per cent . |
| 28 | The Old Testament ius talionis ( an eye for an eye , a life for a life , etc. ) is one example of such a tariff , but only one : a retributive tariff could be considerably more lenient than this , as long as the proportionate relationship between crimes and punishments was retained . |
| 29 | In the particular case of a minister 's decision fixing the tariff period for a life sentence prisoner , there is not in my opinion a requirement that reasons should always be given . |
| 30 | Otherwise I might trade in my detective work for a life on the boards . ’ |