Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] for life " in BNC.
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| 1 | The external skeleton inherited from their water-living forebears , needed few modifications for life on land , but the millipedes did have to acquire a different method of breathing . |
| 2 | The book made large , generous claims for life , and for itself : its beguiling charm made people reluctant to point out that what they had read was in fact a factitious marshalling of concerns that did not stand up too well to scrutiny . |
| 3 | The current shareware program is version 4.0 and on registration you receive free updates for life . |
| 4 | Had she got him marked out for her vicious games for life ? |
| 5 | They will be standing against Mrs Thatcher , Mr Heseltine and several right wing multilateralist Labour MPs on a joint Women for Life on Earth/Ecology label . |
| 6 | Parents find it extremely difficult to provide even the basic necessities for life today , and certainly when you begin to think of the sort of things that most children in this country have on a day-to-day basis — an ice cream , a trip to the swimming baths and so on — these families do n't er it 's a major crisis to provide for example sixty pence as entry to a swimming pool . |
| 7 | The Earth , then , provides just the right conditions for life to persist . |
| 8 | The ruthless punishment meted out to senior officials who fell from favour reflected the general lack of legal safeguards for life and property . |
| 9 | Transplants of the whole pancreas have been successful for some severely ill patients , however , they need to take powerful drugs for life to stop rejection of the organ . |
| 10 | Nine-year-old fights for life A NINE-YEAR-OLD girl was yesterday fighting for her life after being knocked unconscious in a road smash . |
| 11 | The acceptance of these gifts would keep the child safe from evil powers for life . |
| 12 | She thought that he had put her off handsome , impudent men for life . |
| 13 | — Plain Clothes for Life , they said goodbye , |
| 14 | Faced with a band of former employees livid that the company is phasing out payment of medical expenses for life for its retired employees , the company said the phase-out , over three years , was essential to the survival of the company , which remains on the fragile edge of recovery . |
| 15 | In Russia itself , parliamentary deputies hinted that they might be open to a spot of bribery when , earlier this year , they discussed a bill to guarantee them various privileges for life — a flat in Moscow , a salary , priority booking on aircraft and trains . |
| 16 | Shocked old-guard MPs , who had imagined they were in cushy seats for life , suddenly found Right-Ons dominating their constituency parties with a potent mixture of brow-beating and attrition . |
| 17 | Even though the old man himself is supposed to have rebuked one of his more imaginative pupils with the phrase : ‘ There are times when a cigar is only a cigar ’ , his disciples have generally been reluctant to embrace the more prosaic and parsimonious explanations for life 's little difficulties . |
| 18 | Hugh Despenser the Elder was re-appointed Justice of the Forests south of Trent in March 1308 , and , shortly after the king went north in September 13 10 to escape the Lords Ordainers , he appointed Piers Gaveston to be Justice of the northern forests for life , with wide powers to enclose and arrent the forest wastes and audit the agisters ' accounts , and unprecedented authority to remove verderers and appoint his own men in their places . |
| 19 | A new relationship has begun , with the most momentous consequences for life , and we are going to look at some of those consequences soon . |
| 20 | New rules for life insurers were announced by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners ( NAIC ) , the body through which state insurance regulators set nationwide standards , in December 1992 . |
| 21 | Polar folk , like other homeotherms , show little evidence of special physiological adaptations for life in cold climates , and the meagre environmental resources have kept their populations small , widely dispersed and nomadic . |
| 22 | The main chemical ingredients for life are derived from combinations of carbon , hydrogen , oxygen and nitrogen , which we can abbreviate to CHON . |
| 23 | FOR LIFE : Jonathan Pugh 's is perhaps the biggest challenge so far reported of all the sponsored Walks For Life . |
| 24 | He , like Lewis , had not yet reached a position of religious faith , but he was dissatisfied with purely materialistic explanations for life 's mysteries , and he found the conversation of Barfield intoxicating . |