Example sentences of "life [be] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But all Anselm 's actions , both under Rufus and Henry I , suggest that he thought that too much importance was being attached to the disputed ceremonies , and that the real problems of religious life were at the level of personal attitudes and motives known in the last resort only to God . |
| 2 | But , you see , with all this , and , indeed , before all this , the two happiest relationships of my life were with a schoolfriend called Melanie Smith with whom I used to listen to records of Carousel and Oklahoma ! on an old , wind-up gramophone , and with the hockey-ball when I became goalie of the first eleven . |
| 3 | Most of those who wanted to escape city life were in the 15 to 34 age group rather than those planning to retire in the near future . |
| 4 | IT 'S a woof life being on the old dog and bone all day … |
| 5 | ‘ And , of course , there 's the question of your future son-in-law 's life being in the balance , ’ D'Arcy pointed out unkindly . |
| 6 | I 'd never do what I do now if it was n't for Summerhill 's free-wheeling , timeless , non-routine approach to getting through when life 's off the rails . |
| 7 | ‘ Life 's like a patchwork quilt , ’ said Breeze reflectively . |
| 8 | How anything physical — a brain - should be able to support a mental life is beyond the reach not only of our science but of our imagination . |
| 9 | This may be a reasonable philosophical argument when we are thinking in brief human terms , but the stratigraphical record and I both seem to prefer the doctrine of Thomas Osbert Mordaunt : " One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name " . |
| 10 | Like Eliot 's sharply witty version of this paradox : The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part ; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the healer 's art Resolving the enigma of the fever chart , the meditator in the short text exclaims : But the force of this metaphor of healing is lost , together with the lyrical cadences of alliteration , in the long version : This existentially known contrast between the body of death through which is encountered the possibility of life is at the heart of Christian mysticism itself experienced in playing the game of faith which renews the truth of the Incarnation . |
| 11 | ‘ True , ’ the Friar said , ‘ that is certainly possible , but a wise man 's life is to a large extent a commerce in probabilities , if he were to deal in possibilities he would do little trade . |
| 12 | His standard of life is of a minimal nature , ’ said Mr Francis . |
| 13 | " We believe that living in harmony with natural forces of life is of the highest importance , " said Tran Van Hieu gently , waving his hand towards the golden-roofed temples and palaces of the Imperial City inside the Hue citadel . |
| 14 | ‘ The experience to be gathered from books , though often valuable , is but of the nature of learning ; whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom ; and a small store of the latter is worth vastly more than a stock of the former . ’ |
| 15 | A second way in which stress begins to subvert home life is through the displacement of feelings of anger . |
| 16 | It wriggles away , and , with this active response … life is on the royal road to consciousness . |
| 17 | But away at Wellington Docks the only sign of life is on the good ship Sea Satin . |
| 18 | ‘ The intellectual and rational conception of life has given way to a more creative interpretation ’ , wrote the British Surrealist Eileen Agar in 1931 , ‘ and artistic life is under the sway of womb-magic ’ ; and Agar give expression to this ‘ womb-magic ’ in the foetal and embryonic forms which play a central part in paintings such as ‘ Family Trio ’ or ‘ The Autobiography of an Embryo ’ where fluid shapes float across the picture plane to be captured in a net of geometric planes . |
| 19 | You have nothing to lose and everything to gain by being completely honest , even if you feel your devotional life is in a mess . |
| 20 | Michael Bowerman , defending , said : ‘ The prosecution is not in a position to proceed now and that is nothing to do with the defendant at all and yet his life is in a state of limbo . ’ |
| 21 | Their view of Karma as a life-giving force that flows from life to life is in every way like the modern physicist 's view of electrons ( electricity ) which they say is not ‘ matter ’ but a ‘ force ’ . |
| 22 | The new significance of the covenantal blood of circumcision was clearly demonstrated by the later midrashic ( rabbinic ) paraphrase of the biblical ‘ life is in the blood ’ to ‘ life is in the blood of circumcision ’ . |
| 23 | The new significance of the covenantal blood of circumcision was clearly demonstrated by the later midrashic ( rabbinic ) paraphrase of the biblical ‘ life is in the blood ’ to ‘ life is in the blood of circumcision ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ Indeed , Philippe Chaumont 's life is in the balance . |
| 25 | " Since 1914 " , notes Nizan , " the whole of life is in the public domain … nobody can escape from the world any longer . |
| 26 | And it 's , the life is in the , still in the tooth if you can find it , but of course sometimes they 've gone have n't they ? |
| 27 | Tells you how much life is in the battery |
| 28 | You know , they should be pitied , because , there is no way that my life is inside a ring binder . |
| 29 | Another participant was an elderly Orcadian poetess prone to say very , very softly things such as ‘ life is like a glass of pure water ’ . |
| 30 | For Christians who live closely with God , life is like a festival , and with each new believer brought into reality there is joy for all believers . |