Example sentences of "[noun sg] for life " in BNC.
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| 1 | His annuity was first raised to 100 marks ( £66 13s. 4d. ) , assigned on the lordship of Haverford , and then on 20 August 1385 replaced by a grant for life to him of that lordship . |
| 2 | THE LAW COURTS in the Strand pronounce a terrible judgment on the visitor as soon as he enters : school , they say , really was a preparation for life . |
| 3 | Among the many reasons for this are , first , a belief that the spread of the secondary comprehensive school has led to a fall in standards or has failed to lead to the heralded improvement in quality ; and secondly , a raising of expectations , among politicians , parents , employers and young people , about what young people , in the light of growing youth unemployment , should be expected to achieve by the end of the period of compulsory education , especially in preparation for life , work and further/higher education . |
| 4 | They are part of preparation for life and , provided they do not get out of hand , do no harm whatever . |
| 5 | Four elements of the specification are of particular importance here : a statement of aims relating to the education of individual pupils , and to the preparation for life after school ; a statement of objectives in terms of skills , attitudes , concepts and knowledge ; a balanced allocation of time for the eight areas of experience ; and methods of teaching and learning which will achieve the objectives . |
| 6 | The French , very wisely , make a distinction between ‘ instruction ’ , the acquisition of knowledge and ‘ education ’ , which produces well rounded human beings the much wider preparation for life . |
| 7 | Now , after almost fifty years we look back and the rich variety of our doings in the years between fulfills the concept of university as a preparation for life rather than training for a specific walk of life . |
| 8 | Despite Karajan 's meteoric ascent to positions of power and influence after Furtwängler 's death in 1954 and Böhm 's dismission from Vienna some months later , it is clear that Karajan 's ultimate aim was not power but independence : hence the contract for life with the Berlin Philharmonic , hence the founding in 1967 of the Salzburg Easter Festival , brilliantly engineered and financed by Karajan after his return to influence in Salzburg and his eight-year reign at the Vienna State Opera . |
| 9 | Graham , offered a contract for life at Highbury , added : ‘ I 'm very happy at Arsenal . |
| 10 | NASA 's budget for life sciences is less than $138 million a year , out of the agency 's total annual spending of $14 billion . |
| 11 | Lyons was made chairman for life . |
| 12 | It is found in a basic legal passage on the necessity for exact justice , in the phrase " life for life " ( Deuteronomy 19:21 ) , i.e. " life in payment for life " . |
| 13 | His productivity and avidity for life could not obliterate an inner malaise . |
| 14 | The survival of the fittest meant that the struggle for life condemned millions of living creatures to starvation or violent death from many causes , not by any means the least important of which was the provision of food for other species . |
| 15 | ’ He sees the struggle for definition as ‘ veritably the struggle for life itself ’ , and that to perceive oneself for oneself is a matter of life and death : ‘ In short , he who first seizes the word imposes reality on the other : he who defines thus dominates and lives ; and he who is defined is subjugated and may be killed . ’ |
| 16 | In a glowing vision of The ascent of man ( 1894 ) , Drummond acknowledged the Darwinian struggle for life , but he also referred to a struggle for the life of others . |
| 17 | He called the book in which he set out his theory in detail , The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life . |
| 18 | Paintings from the 19th and early 20th centuries show us a countryside where humans are not dominant but co-exist with Nature in the struggle for life ; where cultivated fields are everywhere bounded by the wilderness which constantly threatens to encroach and claim back its own . |
| 19 | As regards the calculated appeal to the frightened little man trying to make sense of his everyday struggle for life in his market town or small village , Hitler continually stressed the nation : |
| 20 | You come out of the little world of your daily struggle for life , and of your struggle for Germany and for our nation , to experience this feeling for once . |
| 21 | They have found a new enthusiasm for life , a new determination to be the people they are and behave as they will . |
| 22 | Such gaiety she had had , such an enthusiasm for life . |
| 23 | Her energy and enthusiasm for life returned , her sleep pattern became normal once more and she was able again to cope with life . |
| 24 | Before you could say ‘ blimey , look at that stagecoach turning into a pumpkin ’ , Setanta Records had booked The Frank & Walters into Wimbledon YMCA and Camden Underworld , where a support slot in front of a dozen punters showcased their spiky pop instincts and a subtly hysterical enthusiasm for life . |
| 25 | Most puppies have a rather limited attention span , such is their enthusiasm for life . |
| 26 | She felt like a convalescent after a long and dangerous illness , her strength returning , her enthusiasm for life rekindled . |
| 27 | I slowly began to understand its sophistication and culture and the Parmigiani 's enthusiasm for life and good food . |
| 28 | One person at least had emerged from the unhappy events at Easterness with a renewed enthusiasm for life . |
| 29 | He must now , by my reckoning , be nearly a hundred years old , but in no way does his enthusiasm for life appear diminished . |
| 30 | Nothing could restore the bull 's heart for life . |