Example sentences of "[noun] life was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Williams , home life was an intellectual void . |
| 2 | We can learn very much from Thoreau most of whose adult life was a kind of retirement . |
| 3 | Her whole adult life was a triumph of determination over a body that could have condemned her to permanent invalidism . |
| 4 | The well-established agricultural divisions of the county were reinforced by medieval practices , but perhaps the greatest contribution to Sussex life was the extension of settlement much deeper into the Weald , the piecemeal annual clearings going much farther than before . |
| 5 | The old man believed , with simple patriotism , that the Service to which lie had given the whole of his working life was the best in the world . |
| 6 | Much of the early commentary argued that improving the quality of working life was an appropriate social goal for modern industrial economies , where levels of education and affluence had increased living standards and aspiration levels . |
| 7 | Far removed from the practicalities of army life was the entry from the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh . |
| 8 | After the separation from her husband , Blanche 's love life was a Russian roulette of the emotions : taking men to her heart , and sometimes to her bed , with the fateful enthusiasm of a suicide pulling the trigger of a gun . |
| 9 | One of his proudest moments in his BIE life was the appointment of his son , Jeffrey , as National President in 1990/91 . |
| 10 | The studied plainness of diction in these poems of country life was an important part of their experimental character , but became the object of much ridicule . |
| 11 | Ceauşescu himself insisted that a pregnant woman was ‘ everybody 's concern ’ because family life was a ‘ socialized private problem ’ . |