Example sentences of "[vb -s] a [adj] life [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just to go out into the night can give a sense of this ; night is not empty darkness — the night can be warm , or stormy , still or windy , and the darkness is charged by this and has a changing life of its own . |
| 2 | Nigel has a new life with his family in Florida . |
| 3 | The MacDonalds box has a useful life of only several minutes , but languishes for decades in litter or landfill . |
| 4 | The species has a short life under water , and lives up to 6 months in the aquarium . |
| 5 | Suppose a machine which has a known life of only two years is expected to yield £242 each year . |
| 6 | Suppose a machine has a known life of only one year and is expected to yield £450 at the end of that year . |
| 7 | On top of that it has a whole life of its own with sports , a nightly disco , live music , and a daily English film . |
| 8 | He has a comfortable life in west Los Angeles ; he dates a movie mogul 's ex-wife ; he wants for nothing . |
| 9 | Frances has a comfortable life in many ways . |
| 10 | Despite the glamorous careers she creates for her clients , Sarah herself lives a low-key life in Battersea with her daughters Noelle , 13 , and 13-month-old Genevieve . |
| 11 | He now leads a busy life as an honorary chaplain in York Minster . |
| 12 | Parties refused authorization had a right of appeal before an administrative judge , and the MPS , " which already leads a public life by virtue of being the source and guarantor of the institutions provided for in the National Charter " , was exempted from certain registration formalities . |
| 13 | The invaluable John Bellany produces a Still Life with Lovebird that does much to substantiate his already considerable reputation , and Sylvia von Hartmann is represented by a very beautiful mixed-media creation that fully justifies the remit . |
| 14 | The rebel banner is made by the one Protestant daughter of the Catholic Norton family , who endures a lonely life after the failure of the rising and the death of her brothers and father . |
| 15 | In fact only two pictures a still life by an eighteenth-century Italian Master and an interesting church interior deserved to be on show . |
| 16 | This is an illuminating comment on Smart 's work , which like that of all three of the poets of this period studied here , breaks clean from the worn-out conventions of eighteenth-century poetic tradition , and brings a new life to poetry . |
| 17 | It is to these trusted friends Diana will now turn to as she begins a new life on her own . |