Example sentences of "life [is] very " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Life 's very short , Christina , and I do n't have to tell you again how I feel about you . |
| 2 | The student life is very important — in perspective . |
| 3 | The problem in Poland is that life is very difficult for most people . |
| 4 | These appear to be parts of the Lord 's Prayer , but are confused by the addition of the complaint in the same typographical form , ‘ Life is very long' , appropriately enough from the more primitive world of An Outcast of the Islands . |
| 5 | Shockingly juxtaposed with an apparently childish survival of a primitive chant , the Lord 's Prayer grows increasingly fragmented , corruptly incorporating the complaint , ‘ Life is very long ’ , while being broken up and having its utterance prevented by ‘ the Shadow ’ in the long passages which are partly like a new ritual , usurping the old , and partly like a long gloss which dominates the original text of the prayer . |
| 6 | Not only is it a move into a realm where the distinction between life and death seems , as in ‘ The Hollow Men ’ , to have broken down , it is also a crossing to the world of the ‘ cannibal isle ’ which is revealed as only another version of the life left behind , and where the realization that ‘ Life is very long ’ is not escaped from , but reinforced . |
| 7 | ’ At the same time as this Conrad work was in his head , Eliot received anthropological proof that ‘ Life is very long ’ for ‘ civilized ’ people and for ‘ savages ’ alike in an age of degeneration , and that if the savage revealed a level of horror hidden in city life , then similarly civilized man might corrupt the savage . |
| 8 | Like everything else on Barbados , life is very relaxed for the pair of them and they are never on a lead , but perhaps one of them should be tethered ! |
| 9 | Let us remember that life is very short . |
| 10 | Life is very crude , and bonnie Princes Street a dream , but we soldier on with a good grace . |
| 11 | Life is very cheap and food excellent . |
| 12 | Her life is very busy , full of incident and visitors . |
| 13 | The way she 's had to deal with her life is very different to the way us three suburban-born white guys have dealt with ours , and we 're learning something every day — it 's a cool band . ’ |
| 14 | When hearing loss in adult life is very severe or total , there is more sensitivity to vibration . |
| 15 | The number of people in this country whose hearing has become impaired in adult life is very large indeed . |
| 16 | Family life is very different from today . |
| 17 | The latter possibility is , to be polite , unlikely ; the other two imply that life is very widespread throughout the Universe . |
| 18 | With the average age of the population increasing every year , you can appreciate that the assistance given by the D.G.A.A. to improve the quality of life is very much in tune with today 's needs . |
| 19 | Parents can not expect their children to get on with each other but family life is very difficult if there is continuous bickering and jealousy between children . |
| 20 | Typical of Amerindian groups of the Guianas ( see Rivière 1984 ) , Piaroa social life is very unformalized . |
| 21 | Social life is very far from being governed by shrewd logic and sweet reason . |
| 22 | Above : Liz 's life is very sociable — meeting fellow students , David 's colleagues and village friends — and occasionally there is a formal event , such as a party at the University . |
| 23 | For those who remain in the country , life is very arduous : |
| 24 | The likelihood of an inhabitant having neighbours who are strangers , or whose way of life is very different from his own has , until recently , been very slight . |
| 25 | Having a direction in life is very important . |
| 26 | is that because real life is very disappointing ? |
| 27 | You have enemies , as I 'm sure you know , and your life is very important to … |
| 28 | Colonial life is very predictable . |
| 29 | So I went laden out , I 'd never flown before , and I went to Kenya and life is very very different from hospitals in this country . |
| 30 | Provincial life is very demanding , do n't you find ? |