Example sentences of "life [adv] for the " in BNC.

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1 They hope that marriage will make life better for the woman .
2 Honey had been the only sweetener ; sugar had been as expensive as cinnamon or cloves and it could be taxed as a luxury in the firm belief that this would not make life harder for the working classes who were not thought to be consumers of sugar , though this was clearly changing in the eighteenth century .
3 A TEENAGER , Alexander Sommerville , was detained for life yesterday for the senseless and brutal murder of a middle-aged lawyer .
4 When this latter batch was modernised in 1936 , a centre gangway was cut through the benches to make life easier for the conductor .
5 But in many cases , these chemicals also affected the pest 's natural predators , making life easier for the pest rather than harder !
6 Unlike the First Concerto , which in terms of its piano writing is completely honest , and where only the first movement 's double trills need to be re-arranged to become audible , the Second Concerto requires some adjustments in order to serve Brahms 's purpose , and not merely to make life easier for the pianist !
7 They could not agree if Mr Lamont had made life easier for the motorist — presently snapping up more new cars than last year — or not .
8 But then making life easier for the passenger is what BAA is all about , and to do so successfully takes careful planning .
9 The manufacturers are actively using the techniques to make life easier for the hobbyists and better for the fish themselves .
10 Kruger favours pen-based machines because he says they make life easier for the user — all he needs to do is ring the bit of text he wants to file away for future reference , and his computer will store it away on hard disk .
11 The second thing making life easier for the would-be proliferator is the break-up , and breakdown , of the Soviet Union .
12 This is not a sentimental journey in quest of ways and means of making life easier for the offender , but a realistic attempt to tackle the economic problem of saving the community from the losses and suffering caused by the anti-social activities of criminals .
13 As mentioned earlier , social services departments can and do make adaptations to premises to make life easier for the disabled person .
14 To make life easier for the user a keyboard overlay is supplied which carries the various options .
15 The acquisition of steel knives , guns and patent traps made hunting and everyday life easier for the Inuit , but the price paid in furs for these trade goods represented over-exploitation of a meagre community resource .
16 Rose of Lima herself did not write her memoirs , or anything else , so her subjective understanding of this painful phenomenon is not really known ; what is known is that she offered her life explicitly for the conversion and salvation of those suffering people — one of the reasons , obviously , why she later seemed an appropriate patron for the New World .
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