Example sentences of "of [pos pn] life [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ The most wonderful experience of my life was the day I went into Spain . |
| 2 | The centre of their life was the abbey church , which still survives almost intact , the view through the east window of the wooded slopes being particularly memorable . |
| 3 | She was an excellent shrewd local politician and a comfort to her at the end of her life was the defeat of the atrocious plans of the Merrell Dow Chemical Company to build a plant near her beloved River Blackwater , the last campaign in which she played an active part . |
| 4 | As they passed the alimentari ( shut , as it might be forever ) and then plunged off the road into the shadows of the bramble-lined single track , Haverford quoted , as he had been waiting to do ever since they left Heathrow : ‘ ‘ In the middle of the journey of our life , I found myself lost in a dark wood , ’ ’ he began to translate for the benefit of the children , but they were all , including the baby , asleep now and Molly thought that for her father to pretend to be in the middle of his life was a bit of a cheek anyway . |
| 5 | The thought that I had crushed something out of his life was a disquieting one . |
| 6 | Hyde in danger of his life was a new experience for me . |
| 7 | The great cause of his life was the Scottish communion office , the eucharistic liturgy deriving from the 1637 Scottish Book of Common Prayer . |
| 8 | Jones-the-milk is all very well , but to be dubbed Murdo-foolish for the rest of your life is a different matter . |
| 9 | Though the three or four years of your student existence will seem in retrospect to have flown by , one of the delights of this period of your life is the way in which the days — and nights — really do expand to let you fit in nearly all the things you want to do — and more ! |
| 10 | When to do something , when to stop , all these things which are in tune with the rhythm of your life are the result of listening within . |
| 11 | By combining these activities , you 'll spend more of your life being a person than being merely a linguist , physicist or economist . |