Example sentences of "[verb] life be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report does n't lay blame solely with government , building societies , credit companies or irresponsible borrowers , they say life is n't that simple . |
| 2 | " Did you know life was that simple ? " |
| 3 | " Since when has life been noted for its fairness ? |
| 4 | it might have been permanently grounded , but I 'm sure it found life was n't boring ! |
| 5 | ‘ Really makes you feel life 's worth living . ’ |
| 6 | But we do need more friends and volunteers to help us get out and about so that we do n't feel life 's passing us by . ’ |
| 7 | In the first four lines receding life is seen as the dying season of autumn giving way to bitter and bleak winter . |
| 8 | The ‘ sunbeams ’ endless struggle to create life is the futility of the title and its helplessness when it comes to protecting that life . |
| 9 | Suppose we assume that each regulation is enforced up to the point at which the marginal cost and marginal benefit of saving life are equal for that activity . |
| 10 | And so we 've said life is it 's gon na bring us problems , it 's gon na bring us storms , it 's tempests , and some of them are gon na be very , very fierce ! |
| 11 | But Wilson , 51 , the Liberal Democrats ' election campaign director , may be wishing life was that simple . |
| 12 | Men struggle to paint or take pictures , but the idea that women can create life is the most frustrating thing to men . ’ |
| 13 | Scientists now believe life is based on an infinite variety of polypeptides , with a great potential for unrealized polypeptides that could be used in living systems . |
| 14 | You breed , willy-nilly , and lo and behold ! you find life is n't ever going to be the same again . |
| 15 | ‘ The police will have you believe that on the night of 12 September , after consuming half a tin of pilchards , she decided life was not worth living and hacked off her left leg with a non-existent sharp instrument . |
| 16 | Frequently they give her the exact day they decided life was not worth living , and sometimes even the time of day the decision was made . |
| 17 | A former District Commissioner of Wajir in Kenya said to me , when making a donation , that he had heard that the wells of underground water which had always sustained life was indeed to be our theme , and the Glasgow Gospel version of the Guid Samaritan by our ‘ 92 celebrity , Jamie Stuart , puts it this way : ‘ Wan day an expert lawyer tried tae trick Jesus . |
| 18 | Your folks know me , I get on all right with them , your mum 's real hoot , I always giggle with your mum , she thinks life 's a laugh . |
| 19 | this is n't fair , I mean life 's not fair . |
| 20 | For many of those who did remain life was very hard ; family members frequently had to seek outside employment on a part-time or short-term basis . |
| 21 | The Right to Enjoy Life is Enshrined in Evolution |
| 22 | He said to himself , but I do think life 's like that . |
| 23 | I do think life is complicated ! ’ |
| 24 | I do n't think life is like that . |
| 25 | What worried him was that the man was somehow rejecting the film , announcing that he did n't think life was really like that . |
| 26 | A sacrifice of analytical rigour may not be that important if the concept which has been thereby given life is never used , and it is clear from Lord Greene M.R 's judgment in the Wednesbury case that he conceived of it being utilised only in the extreme ( and hypothetical ) instance of ‘ dismissal for red hair type of case . ’ |
| 27 | Though in theory taking life was contrary to the tenets of Buddhism , it was considered more shocking to kill animals for other persons , or for their hides , than to kill for a meal . |
| 28 | To fear life is to fear the world . |
| 29 | Eluard 's soaring ‘ lyricism ’ helped to perpetuate a tyranny , and is the kind of thing which led Kundera to employ the title The Lyric Age for the work which first came to him in the mid-Fifties , and which his publishers prevailed on him to retitle Life is elsewhere when it was completed in 1969 . |
| 30 | Creating LIFE was not easy . |