Example sentences of "life be [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life is just a pretext . |
| 2 | ‘ Life is n't a race , ’ he stated , ‘ and because it is not a race I do n't consider myself in competition with my fellow actors for awards or recognition . ’ |
| 3 | Cancer has taught me that life is n't a dress rehearsal , this is it and you only get the one chance . |
| 4 | Enjoy today — life is not a dress rehearsal . |
| 5 | John later wrote , ‘ I gather from your letters that army life is not a bed of roses ? |
| 6 | This gender imbalance in later life is not a trend which is unique to Great Britain . |
| 7 | Life is not a rehearsal . |
| 8 | Here the dissatisfactions of the twenties seem to give way to a realization that life is not a rehearsal ; careers are for real . |
| 9 | Instead he learned that life is not a choice between murdering your way to the throne or slopping back in a sty ; that there are swinish kings and regal hogs ; that the king may envy the pig ; and that the possibilities of the not-life will always change tormentingly to fit the particular embarrassments of the lived life . |
| 10 | Perhaps they just find it comforting to think that this one earthly life is not the beginning and end of it all . |
| 11 | The central idea of ethnomethodology is that the orderliness of social life is not the result of people obeying social norms or giving way to social pressures , but rather that orderliness is attained by all those involved working to achieve it . |
| 12 | Shorthouse described his book as ‘ a philosophic romance , written as a protest on behalf of culture of every kind against fanaticism and superstition in every form , including the fanaticism of work … to exalt the unpopular notion that the end of one 's life is not the good of one 's neighbour but one 's own culture . ’ |
| 13 | The yield to average life is simply the yield to maturity under the assumption that the entire bond matures on the date corresponding to the average life at the average redemption price . |
| 14 | Cast out by his flock , who fail to persuade him that life is merely a question of survival , Jonathan continues to pursue excellence in flight , and eventually discovers the unlimited potential of being . |
| 15 | It 's sensible , Harry says , not to put them too deep inside since their shelf life is only a couple of weeks . |
| 16 | First , we suggested that the occurrence of disability as a significant event in an individual 's life is only a starting-point for understanding the practical and personal consequences of living with a disability . |
| 17 | On the contrary ; determination by — i.e. agreement with — the social basis of life is manifestly a factor making for realism and truth . |
| 18 | The argument based on the sanctity of life is essentially a matter of religious dogma . |
| 19 | I do not mean to imply , he wrote , that nothing existed before that moment , no plans , no designs , no sketches and no notes , of course there were plans and designs , sketches and notes , how could there not be , he wrote , when my whole life has been nothing but a preparation for this beginning , not only in the sense that everyone 's life is always a preparation for every beginning in that life but in the quite specific sense that my own life has always been a preparation for this beginning , nothing but a preparation for this beginning , both consciously and unconsciously , with everything I have done as well as everything I have thought , everything I have felt as well as everything I have suffered . |
| 20 | Leavis 's reputation as a crabbed stylist and boldly innovative thinker who had been rejected by a university where he spent his entire life was largely a figment of his own mind , and so much of his post-war life was devoted to mythologising his own career that it is difficult , by now , to recognise what a conventional figure in his place and day he always was . |
| 21 | Human surgery and medicine would always be superior to a profession where the education was less expensive , the difficulties of the courses of instruction were fewer , emoluments were smaller , and the sanctity of life was not a determinant of treatment . |
| 22 | He began to see that God was not a tyrant but a loving Father ; he began to see that the Christian life was not a series of impossible demands to satisfy the whims of an unreasonable employer ; he began to see that he was welcome because of who he was , and not on the basis of what he could achieve . |
| 23 | The progressive appearance of ever-higher forms of life was not the result of blindly operating natural laws , but the step-by-step unfolding of a preordained pattern that the Creator had built into the universe . |
| 24 | Curiously , the last sensation of his own life was not the pain of the terrible wounds inflicted by the horns of the seladang . |
| 25 | It was also generally believed that , while good works could never of themselves merit salvation , the leading of a saintly life was both a consequence and a sign of one 's elect status . |
| 26 | He told me that Pyke 's private life was n't a desert of austere and puritanical practices . |
| 27 | This new part of my life was n't a woman who would seem attractive straight-on in a passport photograph . |
| 28 | Young men still came up to the colleges , but they reminded Lewis of his own position in 1917 , when his glimpse of Oxford life was just a prelude to the horrors of battle . |
| 29 | WHEN LIFE WAS JUST A CABARET FOR POISON IVY |
| 30 | ‘ To the Indians , death was a very simple thing , for life was just an appetiser . |