Example sentences of "life is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are distinctive , ‘ because they must choose ; responsibility for structuring their lives is uniquely their own ’ . |
| 2 | The point is rather that , even though knowingly taking risks with other people 's lives is usually unjustifiable , taking a slight risk is less serious than intentionally causing death . |
| 3 | Sixty years on Sheriff 's honest and compassionate play about the last 48 hours of their lives is still compelling and gripping with a relevance for today 's audience . |
| 4 | This has the further consequence that a woman 's life is largely confined to private spaces — the home — while men dominate the public spaces outside the home . |
| 5 | ‘ [ O ] ur style of life is largely determined by the activities and style of business ; and the style of business is largely determined by the activities and style of our companies ’ . |
| 6 | I puzzled over this one for some time and came to the conclusion that my children 's concept of life is largely derived from fairy stories in which anybody with power is always male . |
| 7 | Their school life is largely dedicated to preventing themselves being educated . |
| 8 | Except that it 's four in the morning and Dr Serafin 's home life is largely inside my head . |
| 9 | But then life is invariably ultimately hard on someone with pretensions beyond their talents and a style best encapsulated in the story told about the boy in his Taunton constituency who asked him what the time was . |
| 10 | Life is slowly becoming a little easier . |
| 11 | Social life is increasingly centralised and concentrated ; national and multinational organisations and governments having increasingly dramatic impacts on people 's lives . |
| 12 | Indeed , the recent decline in spatial mobility means that daily life is increasingly limited to relatively small regions . |
| 13 | Freshwater life is also at risk from what is known as ‘ acid pulse ’ . |
| 14 | The animal life is also very rich . |
| 15 | THIS area of life is also subject to the slings and arrows of Pluto , although his transformative influence is ultimately for the good . |
| 16 | Cultural life is also benefiting from this new governmental radicalism . |
| 17 | The governor 's life is also complicated by his past dealings with the tribes . |
| 18 | But my life is also my private culture that 's what I 'm showing you , after all , that 's what I 'm letting you into , my private culture . |
| 19 | Finally I had to reconcile myself — I really believe this , but it 's not a thing you can say without emotion and maybe regret — that , yes , life is sacred , but the quality of life is also important , and it has to be the determining thing in this particular case . |
| 20 | This sensibility for integrating aspects of contemplative with active life is also manifest in the Livre de Seyntz Medecines written by Henry Duke of Lancaster ; in it he writes about his own sense of that mortal sin for which Christ the healer supplies remedies , having beaten death in that tournament where he " turned our sorrow into joy and overcame death with death " . |
| 21 | ‘ One 's whole life is just a perpetual traffic between the grimness of reality and one 's fleeting dream of happiness , ’ Tchaikovsky had said , who had perished by being shopped by a forgotten grey jurist , who considered him a disgrace to the Legal Profession ( because he was gay ) , Tchaikovsky having made a false start in law . |
| 22 | Looking at your list , decide whether your life is just as you want it to be . |
| 23 | Former taxi driver John , 55 , of Manchester , said : ‘ Life is just one big hell at the moment . |
| 24 | Life is just great . |
| 25 | Life is just a pretext . |
| 26 | Now though , life is just great . |
| 27 | Well , it was a choice between asking whether life is just one long , or short , colossal fiasco , or whether you still wank . |
| 28 | I think , I think when your reading it , I mean the , the female always gets her man and he 's always perfect and er , I mean real life is just is n't like that , so its nice to see that it works out for someone . |
| 29 | It can not be explained on the grounds that ordinary life is just as tragic ( art is not merely imitation of life ) or by reference to moral feelings or pity and fear . |
| 30 | In assessing the value of treatment , the impact on quality of life is just as important as duration of survival . |