Example sentences of "of life [was/were] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only sign of life was a man , wearing what looked like a woollen dressing gown with a hood , riding past on a camel . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The only sign of life was a goat chewing on a rag at the corner of a house . |
| 4 | But I could appreciate a countervailing vision of tolerant scepticism in which the surface texture of life was a source of amiability and pleasure . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This in part reflected the conviction of nineteenth-century experts that the later years of life were a stage of general physical and mental deterioration . |
| 7 | Until comparatively recently there was a general belief or tacit agreement within the community that the later years of life were a time of " all passion spent " — that sex stopped or should stop with the menopause in women and that it continued into later years only in old men who were awarded the epithet " dirty " . |
| 8 | If the origin of life were a much more probable event than is suggested by the Solar System Number we should expect , by now , to have encountered extraterrestrial life , if not in ( whatever passes for ) the flesh , at least by radio . |
| 9 | If the origin of life were a probable event by ordinary human standards , then a substantial number of planets within radio range should have developed a radio technology long enough ago ( bearing in mind that radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second ) for us to have picked up at least one transmission during the decades that we have been equipped to do so . |