Example sentences of "life [is] not [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sits there looking like John Knox being unimpressed by Mary Stuart , and just as I think he 'll never let me increase my overdraft he says , ‘ Aye , life 's not easy for a woman alone with no head for business . |
| 2 | Life 's not monotonous — but it 's very much the same . |
| 3 | Life 's not fair . ’ |
| 4 | Life 's not fair , anyway , is it ? |
| 5 | this is n't fair , I mean life 's not fair . |
| 6 | The thing is you do , you go through life and you think life 's not fair . |
| 7 | In the country districts a woman 's life is not easy . |
| 8 | Life is not easy for any of us , and despite what people think can be hard for those of us who have the luck to be well endowed with this world 's goods . |
| 9 | ‘ Life is not all lust , ’ said Jay , swatting him . |
| 10 | There have always been creepy-crawly stories , which are part of learning that life is not all teddy bears and roses . |
| 11 | Life is not all bad for Sugar , though . |
| 12 | And we find that life is not all plain sailing . |
| 13 | As I said , life is not all plain sailing , there are troubles , there are storms and some of them are very fierce and some of them would cause us to , to wonder if there is an escape . |
| 14 | Life is not long enough for a faith without meaning . |
| 15 | F B Meyer said : ‘ The great tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer but unoffered prayer . ’ |
| 16 | A further theme is that death is around , comes in disguise , that life is not infinite . |
| 17 | Book Week sets out every year to persuade children that life is not square and sits in the corner with knobs on . |
| 18 | This puzzles them : they ask why , if they are so rich , life is not easier . |
| 19 | The predominance of the individualistic perspective in our everyday life is not difficult to understand : the birth of modern capitalist society was accompanied by a philosophy of individualism , the belief that individuals were free to choose their rulers , their employers , and their religion . |
| 20 | The way formal religion is incorporated into a way of life is not constant and must relate to the social experience particular to certain groups and even to individuals . |