Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] life can be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Psychological resources must also be taken into account to see if the basic requirements for daily life can be met . |
| 2 | He doubts ‘ whether the significance which the certainty of the law has for the smooth and efficient working of economic life can be exaggerated ’ and suggests that ‘ there is probably no single factor which has contributed to the greater prosperity of the Western world compared with the Orient than the relative certainty of the law which in the West had early been achieved ’ . |
| 3 | The 300 metre trail will include 12 marked ‘ stages ’ where different aspects of marine life can be observed . |
| 4 | From the point of view of explanation , moral and ideological features of social life can be treated as legitimizing devices which may facilitate but do not account for what is really going on . |
| 5 | The division of labour in modern Britain is such that these three major segments of social life can be thought of as distinct and virtually autonomous sub-systems , each with its own set of specialized self-perpetuating roles ministers , " politicians " , civil servants , judges , lawyers , policemen , bishops , clergy — all of which are open , at least in theory , to any individual of appropriate age , sex , and education who chooses to make himself a candidate . |
| 6 | The classroom gives us one example of this , and as we will reveal , one of the places where some form of serious life can be lived is on the football terraces . |
| 7 | In normal circumstances these principles or facts of human life can be defeated by one means only : death . |