Example sentences of "for [v-ing] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now building societies are the preferred choice of many customers for purchasing life insurance . |
| 2 | McGregor , who was found guilty , has received the Humane Society Award for saving life and the Strathclyde Police Award for bravery , and will now face police disciplinary action . |
| 3 | Exactly the same example for selling life assurance to the wife . |
| 4 | Nobody could blame her for taking life as seriously as she 'd had to , but the way to some kind of peace and personal balance would surely lie in the opportunity to stop running and relax a little . |
| 5 | She represents the responsibility for choosing life or death ; she encompasses the instinctive and physical processes of gestation and birth , our knowledge of these , and our ability to manipulate them . |
| 6 | As to my … period of meditation , there are mental disciplines in which I fear you 're sorely lacking , Grimbo , though I thank you for rubbing life back into my limbs . ’ |
| 7 | Money is for decorating life , Cara — one way or another . |
| 8 | By contrast , the consequences and so competences , and hence the adequacies or inadequacies , of natural selection , especially for long-run effects , were practically impossible to decide , at least for a finite intellect ; although the young Darwin himself could consistently suppose that God in choosing this means for adapting life to a changing earth had foreseen all its consequences . |
| 9 | ‘ That chair was his refuge , his excuse for avoiding life . |
| 10 | ( 1970 ) , working in the Dry Valleys oasis area of McMurdo Sound ( and using techniques that would later be used for detecting life on Mars ) , reported small populations of bacteria in samples taken even from the driest and least promising areas . |
| 11 | Colourists at the Michaeljohn salon apply the renowned Henara Natural Colouring Powders to craftily enhance the natural pigmentation of the hair and replace its sheen , and Henara has now added a Hot Oil Conditioner to this hair-care collection , which is especially useful for injecting life and gloss back into devitalised hair after the stresses of summer . |