Example sentences of "[prep] life was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only sign of life was a man , wearing what looked like a woollen dressing gown with a hood , riding past on a camel . |
| 2 | Vincent had grasped early on that his deep-seated , recurring fearfulness in the face of life was a condition he shared with many nineteenth-century artists . |
| 3 | The only sign of life was a goat chewing on a rag at the corner of a house . |
| 4 | But I could appreciate a countervailing vision of tolerant scepticism in which the surface texture of life was a source of amiability and pleasure . |
| 5 | Cos Jung had this idea that the whole the whole of life was a journey towards the discovery of what he called the real self . |
| 6 | — The origin of the world and of life was no accident . |
| 7 | Ramsey ended the week with a conviction that Temple 's quiet explanation of a Christian philosophy of life was the right way to expound Christianity in modern society and that the emotional popular mission was the wrong way because it appealed to the wrong emotions . |
| 8 | Tracking nature 's pathways to the pigments of life was the title of a stimulating lecture by Prof A. R. Battersby ( Cambridge ) at Minnesota 3M Research , Harlow , on 11 December 1991 . |
| 9 | This contrast with the previous medieval/religious paradigm where the purpose of life was the salvation of the soul and man had no need to understand the physical universe , only to celebrate it as God 's creation . |
| 10 | The only sign of life was the horse tethered outside , and it was n't Twoflower 's horse . |
| 11 | One aspect of her present way of life was the customary silence of the phone . |
| 12 | The beginning of life was an ‘ event ’ which produced a living cell and every change involving that cell that occurred thereafter was a further ‘ event ’ in the evolutionary process . |
| 13 | Living meant constant activity to obtain food , shelter and clothing , and the way of life was an integrated one in which work was not distinguished from leisure , and every activity contributed towards the survival of the individual and the community . |
| 14 | He now realized that specialization for a particular way of life was an advantage even in a stable environment , because it allowed a species to escape from the pressure of rivals seeking to exploit the same resource . |
| 15 | This sort of inquisition had n't happened to him since his schooldays , since he had been the playground bully whose only fear in life was a particularly sharp-eyed and sharp-tongued headmaster . |
| 16 | Although their main purpose in life was the Opus Dei , the nine hours or more a day spent in the choir of the great church , the abbey was the centre of a complex industrial and social organisation . |