Example sentences of "[adj] for [adj] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only in a small number , with conditions and parameters like our own universe , will it be possible for intelligent life to develop and to ask the question , ‘ Why is the universe as we observe it ? ’ |
| 2 | The Queen 's Press Secretary , Charles Anson , has apologised to the Queen and the Duchess of York for a row after the announcement of the Yorks ' separation which suggested that the Duchess may have been unsuitable for Royal life . |
| 3 | The social workers say they have a duty to prepare the seventeen year old for independent life as an adult . |
| 4 | The language and rituals of the chapel were , as we have seen , so uncompromisingly masculine that it would have seemed impossible for printing-house life to be the same again once women were admitted to the craft . |
| 5 | Even more streamlined for marine life were the ichthyosaurs ( 'fish lizards ' ) , which , as their name implies , include species that look remarkably fish-like , although perhaps the better analogy would be with the porpoises , a group of mammals that ‘ returned to the sea ’ , and may fill a similar role in modern seas to that of the ichthyosaurs in the Jurassic . |
| 6 | Dear Vicky — larger than life ( too large for little life … ) |
| 7 | He smoked a lot which hit the hard-worked lungs while the boils surged up out of a weakness in nutrition which , together with the ill-starred Jenkins bones , augured ill for long life and clean living . |
| 8 | As his later disastrous interventions in politics would make clear , he was a realist in quite a simple-minded sense , one who was concerned for public life , and believed ( like activists of the Left ) that a poet had the right and the duty to act in and upon that life quite directly ; whereas the oddly distant weariness of Eliot 's political pronouncements , even when he was most engagé as editor of True Criterion , revealed a man for whom the psychological reality of private torments took priority over any reality which announced itself as social and public . |
| 9 | For all of these reasons the mechanisms responsible for apparent life threatening events , particularly those receiving cardiopulmonary resuscitation , must be identified and treated . |
| 10 | Those who persistently complain that the media coverage is at worst treacherous , and at best ‘ an unwitting tool of Saddam Hussein 's propaganda machine ’ would be happy for civilian life to be run according to military rules . |
| 11 | The need to be able to get about is essential for daily life , and also to take advantage of increased leisure time . |
| 12 | She or he is ‘ on automatic ’ , but the ability to perform many such functions is critical for independent life , as functional assessment approaches would recognise . |
| 13 | His account of ideology on the other hand is much more rewarding , locating it as he does in the presuppositions necessary for social life and avoiding the philosophical consequences of attempting to privilege one perspective . |
| 14 | The perspectivalism that the sociology of knowledge proposed requires suspending a trust in reason and rationality that is necessary for everyday life and in particular for generating applied knowledge . |
| 15 | However , a strong thermodynamic arrow is necessary for intelligent life to operate . |
| 16 | RSAs and ISAs continually create the ‘ conditions of existence ’ of the capitalist mode of production , producing docile , disciplined and fragmented ‘ individuals ’ whose viewpoints and behaviour are suitable for capitalist life . |
| 17 | Rather , it is that the no boundary condition causes disorder to increase and the conditions to be suitable for intelligent life only in the expanding phase . |
| 18 | The table is ideal for circular sawing , jig sawing and shaping , and the top and frame are hot-dip galvanised for long life . |
| 19 | The procedure under which the views of the trial judge and the Lord Chief Justice about the requirements of retribution and deterrence are obtained will be the same as that proposed for discretionary life sentence cases , and will be introduced at the same time . |
| 20 | Nothing was ready for new life . |
| 21 | Philip 's visa has finally come through and Kelly has returned to Britain to help him get ready for married life in Australia . |
| 22 | It is possible to point to landmarks — the moment of ‘ quickening ’ when the mother first feels foetal movements within her ; the moment when the foetus first has potential for independent life — deemed by law to be 24 weeks from gestation ; the moment when the baby has been fully expelled or removed from the mother 's body ; the moment when the baby takes its first breath , with the anatomical changes in circulation that accompany this , and subsequent changes as the baby develops after birth which any parent will recognise . |