Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here is an opportunity to see day-to-day activities relating to life on the estate — working farm with dairy cattle , sheep and arable crops — all set in attractive parkland . |
| 2 | His pictures bring to life the Grecian-style mansions with their over-plush interiors , the seated ladies with their black female servants standing decorously behind them , the elegant members of the town 's prosperous , post-civil-war black middle class . |
| 3 | Tait twitched , as though at the end of an invisible wire , and his dead eyes flickered into life for a moment . |
| 4 | For just an instant Julius 's own eyes flickered into life . |
| 5 | Maggie 's legs came to life , although shakily , and she sprang away . |
| 6 | three days ' leave , and a chance for the first time in many months to reflect on life . |
| 7 | His solution was to come up with the first table of annual premiums based on life expectancy . |
| 8 | As he peered through the binoculars he felt a tremor of excitement course through him at the prospect of seeing the printed images come to life . |
| 9 | Premiums paid for life insurance and funds under management have risen more than five-fold to £14.5 billion and £224 billion respectively , despite there being only a 2m rise in the number of life insurance policies to 106m . |
| 10 | It has for long been the task of the Secretary of State for the Home Department either in the exercise of the prerogative of mercy or more recently on a statutory basis to determine in the case of prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment , how much of that sentence should be served . |
| 11 | After the abolition of the death penalty in 1965 there was plainly some anxiety by the legislature as to how prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment for murder should be dealt with . |
| 12 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will make a statement on the guidelines for the period of imprisonment to be served before prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment will be released on licence . |
| 13 | Limbs caught and held stiffly in awkward attitudes jerked into life as if an electric current had been applied to them . |
| 14 | At once the kneeling statues came to life . |
| 15 | We are talking here not specifically about DNA , but about the basic ingredients needed for life to arise anywhere in the universe . |
| 16 | Some emigres take to life in the West better than others ; Mullova appears to have adapted almost completely , and says she has no regrets about having left Russia . |
| 17 | Window boxes , tubs and hanging baskets come to life in summer , bringing rich colour to buildings and gardens throughout the country . |
| 18 | Tombs vary greatly in size and elaboration , from a nobleman 's tomb with several chambers , richly decorated and furnished by household objects used in life , to simple , single-cell designs for an ordinary family . |
| 19 | There are often wall recesses holding utensils and objects used in life such as helmets , swords , knives , kitchen pots and pans etc . |
| 20 | Later , over a cup of coffee backstage , Kylie talks frankly about homesickness and how it had taken her two years to adjust to life in England . |
| 21 | She had lived her twenty-two years surrounded by life 's little luxuries , all the wonderful comforts that money could buy , and she did n't see herself as the sort of healthy , hardy girl who could endure too many minor inconveniences with a cheery smile . |
| 22 | This study provided us with an opportunity to identify some of the myths that predominantly unskilled workers hold about life in their work environment . |
| 23 | Immediately the rocket motors roared into life , drowning the sound of Dick 's complaints . |
| 24 | James R. Silke was to refer to how Warners offered ‘ heroes made from life ’ and Janet Graves has explained how the rigid financial limits imposed at the studio placed a premium on good dialogue and good acting . |
| 25 | The four huge black mastiffs came to life , smashing their great muscular bodies against the grille , lips curled , white teeth flashing , jaws slavering . |
| 26 | The bulldozer which had stood dormant for the past two days coughed into life and rumbled towards the prison gates . |
| 27 | The rules set for life insurance firms , and proposed for general insurers , strongly favour insurers investing in low-risk assets , such as bonds , rather than higher-risk ones like equities . |
| 28 | Her misgivings sprang to life again . |
| 29 | In effect , for all practical purposes , modern western man assumes that the human race is thrown upon its own resources to cope with life and discover what meaning , if any , it may have . |
| 30 | and one woman said that the year , nineteen twenty one she was a bride of eighteen years old and she took Good Housekeeping and she 's got the whole lot although she 's now a very old lady , and she said my first lot of housekeeping was done in a house in Wales where we had water from the well we had to build the fires up by hand we could get Welsh coal cheaply but they had to you know use paper and kindle and we swept with brooms and my life has never been easier she said I had three children in four years and my life has never been easier she said and all these modern things came in life has got more and more complicated and difficult ! |