Example sentences of "in life [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father taught me that there is only one thing more boring in life than listening to other people 's dreams and that is listening to stories about their operations ; and I only tell mine now because those I had during the early 1980s are as good an example as any of how modern medicine has helped to prolong life ; without them it is unlikely that I would be sitting here writing this . |
| 2 | I feel there are a lot more important things in life than looking good , and in countries where life is harder you do n't have time to worry about such things , you 're too busy working or preparing the next meal . |
| 3 | By definition , you can not do well all the time , you can only try to — your attitude is that you could be a hell of a lot worse off in life than getting out for 30 as opposed to 75 . |
| 4 | It really is not there 's nothing worse in life than getting to old age , or getting anywhere with no money . |
| 5 | His smile , as I recounted my terrifying encounter — I am an arachnophobe — implied that there were worse things in life than having a spider wandering over one 's hair . |
| 6 | There 's nothing worse in life than having no choice , I think . |
| 7 | Regression therapy is based on the belief that re-living a traumatic event , experienced earlier in life but hidden deep in one 's subconscious , can repair the emotional damage . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , it is his questions , his ways of telling and , for want of a better phrase , his search in life that make Lepage the avant-garde artist he is . |
| 9 | The big thing there is there 's no rule in life that says you know if someone says Five them you must draw five centimetres . |
| 10 | ‘ Every now and then things happen to you in life that put everything else in perspective , ’ he explains . |
| 11 | I think more than anything I enjoy the freedom and there are two things in life that give you freedom . |
| 12 | Ben … is a brilliant merchant banker , whose childhood in occupied Europe has scarred him with the legacy of an ‘ existential tardiness ’ ; he recoils from everything in life that demands a heady recklessness , and is doomed to live ‘ without hope in desire ’ . ’ |
| 13 | This organ has received much attention from surgeons , who are confronted with the problems which arise when the prostate enlarges late in life and obstructs the urinary channel which passes through it . |
| 14 | His wife returned to Methodism later in life and died in Chapel-en-le-Frith 23 February 1803 . |
| 15 | I think that drama school stops you playing safe too early on in life and encourages you to take risks . |
| 16 | Indeed Vatn and others have demonstrated that proximal adenomas develop later in life and increase in prevalence and multiplicity at older age . |
| 17 | It seems that all the things that we met with in life and thought of as advantages in the beginning , are found to be grave disadvantages ; and all those things that in our youth we thought of as severe disadvantages , at last come to be seen as benefits . |
| 18 | In these extreme situations the ultimate question was to find a meaning in life and to account for the meaning of death … |
| 19 | It was the price for my more materialist attitude , my seeking to occupy the middle ground , between absorption in life and soaring above the cares of the earth . |
| 20 | The aim of all parents is to teach their child to become an independent , self-reliant adult , able to participate in life and gain satisfaction . |
| 21 | His father 's father was a Congregational minister who came from Ireland early in life and ministered in various English chapels . |
| 22 | Central beliefs are primitive beliefs acquired early in life and confirmed by our daily experiences . |
| 23 | He abandoned Methodism early in life and became an extreme High Churchman . |
| 24 | I want a wife , the sole helpmeet I can influence efficiently in life and retain absolutely till death . |
| 25 | The owner of Hummingbird House might be a surprisingly artistic , cultured hedonist , but here was a man , she decided , who liked the good things in life and did n't care how he made the money to acquire them … |
| 26 | It is a question of changing the system so you can start from anywhere in life and represent people democratically . |
| 27 | The skill in midlife is to discover the beauty that belongs to that stage in life and to accept it willingly . |
| 28 | An armoured glove filled with a sadist 's hand had reached into his heart and torn out his joy in life and put in its place a seemingly permanent sense of loss and despair . |
| 29 | If there is an address , it is often given by a layman , who commends what we did in life and skims discreetly over the question of survival , if any . |
| 30 | ‘ We need to try and help them progress in life as opposed to literally shutting the door in their faces . |