Example sentences of "[prep] life was a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos Jung had this idea that the whole the whole of life was a journey towards the discovery of what he called the real self . |
| 2 | The only sign of life was a man , wearing what looked like a woollen dressing gown with a hood , riding past on a camel . |
| 3 | But I could appreciate a countervailing vision of tolerant scepticism in which the surface texture of life was a source of amiability and pleasure . |
| 4 | Vincent had grasped early on that his deep-seated , recurring fearfulness in the face of life was a condition he shared with many nineteenth-century artists . |
| 5 | The only sign of life was a goat chewing on a rag at the corner of a house . |