Example sentences of "life is not " in BNC.
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| 1 | The quality of our lives is not meant to be static . |
| 2 | Either I work on the big glass , he wrote , or my life is not worth living . |
| 3 | But life is not just work . |
| 4 | ‘ Life is not all lust , ’ said Jay , swatting him . |
| 5 | The representational theory of mind treats the explanation of mental life as a kind of engineering problem ; it starts from the inside , from the representational state , and asks how mental states interact with one another to produce something that we would call ‘ knowledge ’ ; the representational theorist proceeds like a sceptical philosopher who thinks that what figures in our mental life is not reality but our mental representations of it ( recall my saying the Fodor described his position as ‘ methodological solipsism ’ ) . |
| 6 | To theorize about life is not to live . |
| 7 | Not physically , I do n't think they want to hurt me , but your life is not your own . ’ |
| 8 | Its short life is not remembered in Hamnett 's current biography . |
| 9 | ‘ Life is not determined by consciousness but consciousness by life ’ . |
| 10 | Raising £130,000 , setting up the share-holding/debenture scheme , running the shop and his own art gallery in Porlock , has meant that Parnell 's life is not quite what it was pre-September . |
| 11 | A quiet life is not necessarily a rewarding life . |
| 12 | Bringing past legends to life is not that easy but Simon Cadell is astonishingly successful as Coward . |
| 13 | The retailers argue that their life is not all that cushy . |
| 14 | The Christian life is not a tidy , ready-made road which leads directly , simply and painlessly to the gates of heaven . |
| 15 | One life is not enough for somebody with her hormones . |
| 16 | Looking back at your career to , say , the last years of the Great War I am reminded of that poem quoted at the end of Pasternak 's Dr Zhivago , ‘ To live one 's life is not as easy as crossing a ploughed field' ! |
| 17 | Professor Lear believes that individuation and autonomy are the highest goals of Man and he also believes , along with Socrates , that the unexamined life is not worth living . |
| 18 | Here at least is an honourable attempt to deal with a serious theme ; though based on a true story , it still leaves a lingering suspicion that life is not quite so neat . |
| 19 | ( In practice , life is not so simple ) . |
| 20 | Even if that child 's life is not ‘ normal ’ or likely to be comparable with the lives of other people , there can be no arbitrary rule which condemns certain babies to death because they do not conform to some spurious notion of that which constitutes a satisfying or fulfilling life . |
| 21 | As Bashmekov concluded , ‘ perhaps Americans could say that their way of life is not the best in the world , rather than the opposite ’ . |
| 22 | Throughout my life I have been oppressed by society 's expectations , so the man in my life is not to blame for my constant questioning of what life can offer me , and women like me . |
| 23 | John later wrote , ‘ I gather from your letters that army life is not a bed of roses ? |
| 24 | Enjoy today — life is not a dress rehearsal . |
| 25 | Life is not a rehearsal . |
| 26 | ‘ The spiritual director is concerned with the whole person , for the spiritual life is not just the life of the mind , or of the affections , or of the ‘ summit of the soul ’ — it is the life of the whole person ’ . |
| 27 | Socrates said that the unexamined life is not worth living . |
| 28 | There have always been creepy-crawly stories , which are part of learning that life is not all teddy bears and roses . |
| 29 | The Report of the Consultative Committee on Continuation Schools ( no doubt under the influence of Sadler ) quoted him approvingly when he wrote that apprentices should learn ‘ the truth of the maxim that the meaning of life is not to rule but to render service to one 's neighbour , service to one 's calling , service to one 's native country , service to truth and to justice ’ . |
| 30 | Robert Romanyshyn 's central thesis is that psychological life is not part of the material world or of an inner subjectivity separate from that world but exists as a form of mediation between the two . |