Example sentences of "[to-vb] to life [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then , as though it had been waiting there to be born , a plan had begun to come to life in her mind . |
| 2 | The BBC1 blockbuster Civvies — which starts tonight — takes an uncompromising look at ex-Paras as they try to adjust to life outside the Army . |
| 3 | Later , over a cup of coffee backstage , Kylie talks frankly about homesickness and how it had taken her two years to adjust to life in England . |
| 4 | Ian Evans first came to the Palace in September 1974 as The Eagles sought to adjust to life in the 3rd Division , after plummeting straight through Division Two in 1973–74 , and he quickly established himself as a favourite among the fans at Selhurst Park with his wholehearted displays at the centre of our defence . |
| 5 | The important thing , as John Wain was to put it years later in ‘ The Vanishing Critic ’ , looking back wonderingly over a good quarter-century at his own vanished youth , was ‘ to respond to life with one 's emotional priorities in the right order . ’ |
| 6 | Some pay an additional disturbance payment to compensate the expatriate when he has to readjust to life in Britain on his return . |
| 7 | He had been unable to adapt to life at the school , she said . |
| 8 | Intensive pre-operative teaching and preparation will help prepare Mr Reynolds for the process of learning how to adapt to life with a stoma . |
| 9 | However , this is not to say that many forms of life have not been able to adapt to life on slopes up to the 10,000-ft ( 3,050 m ) level , and in some cases higher . |
| 10 | The general or ‘ philosophical ’ curriculum that I advocate would be based on a single principle : that the less narrowly a child 's critical faculties are confined within the bounds of a single set of concepts or procedures , the more easily he will be able to adapt to life after school , whether at work or in higher education , and the more free his imagination will become ; these two targets in fact being one and the same . |
| 11 | Delegates and speakers alike expressed concern about the West 's readiness and ability to adapt to life in a ‘ computer culture ’ . |
| 12 | When combined with the need to acclimatise to life at 3,000m ( at Breckenridge or Copper Mountain , for example ) , the after-effects of a journey like this can eat into precious holiday time . |
| 13 | It was a subconscious form of mourning for a foolish love she 'd allowed to spring to life in her heart , only to kill stone dead — except that her feelings for Dane were far from dead , she acknowledged ruefully . |
| 14 | postman Pat 's lifelike van , and Jess the Cat , all combine to bring to life on stage the world of Greendale which children know so well from their television screens . |