Example sentences of "[adj] life [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though in a different way , what we have seen to be true of Gide was also true of Wilde : ‘ running foul of the law in his sexual life was a stimulus to thought on every subject … . |
| 2 | A similar threat to marine life is the discharge of toxic waste into the sea . |
| 3 | Even more streamlined for marine life were the ichthyosaurs ( 'fish lizards ' ) , which , as their name implies , include species that look remarkably fish-like , although perhaps the better analogy would be with the porpoises , a group of mammals that ‘ returned to the sea ’ , and may fill a similar role in modern seas to that of the ichthyosaurs in the Jurassic . |
| 4 | It is not common sense , and the fact that for most people it is one of the fundamental taken-forgranted assumptions of daily life is a measure of the tremendous success and power of the capitalist global system project . |
| 5 | A measure of the extent to which évolués were drawn into French life was the fact that President Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast was previously a member of five successive French cabinets during the 1950s . |
| 6 | The hub of the City 's cultural life is the Royal Centre . |
| 7 | JOLLIES The social life is a traditional ingredient of Conservative Party conferences — balls , receptions and parties abound , from a Lancashire hot-pot reception to Stinging Nettle And Fool 's Parsley — an ‘ Organic Revue ’ with sketch by Conservative wit , Hornchurch MP Robin Squire , on winners and losers in the recent Cabinet reshuffle . |
| 8 | Our theory is based on the idea that human social life is a product of an interaction between sequences of actions and talk about those actions . |
| 9 | The social life is an important facet of university education , and Eva had always been a sociable person . |
| 10 | The third defect of this simple form of social life is the inefficiency of the diffuse social pressure by which the rules are maintained . |
| 11 | Furthermore , the idea that nations were indestructible components of social life was an historical fantasy . |
| 12 | Their only rule of religious , moral and social life was the Law of Moses as found in the first five books of the Old Testament ( called the Pentateuch or the Torah ) . |
| 13 | The central feature of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century social life was the tertulia — the group of relations or friends who gathered regularly to talk in the evenings . |
| 14 | The character of Boiotian political and social life was the consequence of these agricultural riches : insularity . |
| 15 | Dali 's public life was an eccentric extension of his surrealist vision . |
| 16 | The women 's long separation from the mainstream means that increasing their participation in ordinary life is an inevitable learning process for everybody involved . |
| 17 | Nor do I want him to become blase about the violence many of these packages feature — he might get the notion that beating up people in real life is no big thing . |
| 18 | A little close to the knuckle , she thought sometimes , this tale of shopgirl turned Duchess … ( real life was the highly moral tale of a Yorkshire chainstore-owner 's daughter , likely , before 1897 was out , to become a Viscountess … ) . |
| 19 | Isabelle says part of the reason for her previous reluctance to speak of their personal life is the rough handling they experienced at the hands of the French press , with their sarcastic digs at Eric 's love of painting and poetry . |
| 20 | ( The only sign of Tory life is an empty corner shop where a huge poster says : ‘ Kinnock for Prime Minister , what a joke . ’ |
| 21 | The monastic life was the subject on which Anselm could speak with widely recognized authority and with the power of deep personal experience . |
| 22 | As we have seen , ardent friendship and commitment to the monastic life were the most frequently intertwining subjects of his years at Bec . |
| 23 | Indeed , the furthest I had ever been in my pre-television life was a day trip to Loch Lomond on a bus . |
| 24 | Thus , the true nature of psychological life is the ‘ refiguring ’ of the world of fact as story and the person as a figure in it . |
| 25 | In Benenson 's words : ‘ The gradual change over the last 30 years in the public perception of the value of human life is a measure of Amnesty 's influence . |
| 26 | The whole of human life is a matter of chance , and we only live once ! |
| 27 | Human life is a series of lessons and opportunities for development and evolvement and to me it seems logical to assume that one spirit continues its learning process throughout many lifetimes . |
| 28 | The only sign of human life was the beacon light at the end of the pier which skirted the entrance to Sharpness docks , a mile or so downstream . |
| 29 | ‘ This fixation with selling off every remaining part of our national life is a catastrophe unfolding before us . ’ |
| 30 | It 's a hard life being a cider apple tree at this time of year … as the mechanical harvesters shake the fruit off the branches . |