Example sentences of "like life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would health insurance be income-related like National Insurance or would it be genuine private insurance like life insurance or house insurance ? |
| 2 | This ensures that customers fully understand what they are saying ‘ Yes ’ to , before taking on long term commitments like life insurance , investments and pensions . ’ |
| 3 | Dramatic playing , therefore , like life , contains elements of the performance mode . |
| 4 | Eva Figes , for example , bases her interpretation of women 's writing until 1850 on the belief that : ‘ Until the eighteenth century marriage , like life , tended to be brutish and short . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , it 's just that life here is exactly like life anywhere else . |
| 6 | Like life itself , the mind is never still . |
| 7 | As my husband says , ‘ Thatching is rather like life : you start at the bottom and work up . ’ |
| 8 | That marriage , rather like life , is not perfect . |
| 9 | Again the wood sounds like life , the ‘ levelled rule ’ from the world outside like Conscience . |
| 10 | Not just in the political sense , but also in the sense of cycles between all opposites — like life and death , good and bad , and ugliness and beauty . |
| 11 | It 's like life itself — the prettiest girls are always on the Up escalator when you 're on the Down . |
| 12 | Mr Large also studied other regulatory failures , such as market-rigging at London 's Futures and Options Exchange and widespread mis-selling of retail products like life insurance . |
| 13 | It 's like life used to be , there 's real community spirit . " |
| 14 | Like life , really . ’ |
| 15 | When I was a schoolgirl some friends took me on to a farm and I used to watch the milking and think what a grand life it was , so healthy , not at all like life in the pits and the factories . |
| 16 | This was that pension funds , like life insurance companies , were too willing to invest in overseas companies , by implication ‘ starving ’ British industry of capital . |
| 17 | ‘ Like life , is it not , Sir John ? ’ |
| 18 | Light and shade cohabit like life and death , the one more vivid for the dread presence of the other . |
| 19 | Sitting in the Beans ' kitchen that sense began to come back to her ; not suddenly but slowly , a slow prickle of pity and curiosity , like life returning to a deadened limb . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , ’ she curled up on the deep sill and wrapped the duvet more tightly around herself , leaving him to find a seat of his own as she knew he was going to , ‘ that sounds like life — so what ? ’ |
| 21 | And I have a passion for acting and the truth of acting which is like life to me . |
| 22 | It 's like life assurance . |
| 23 | I thought it was the tragic comedy like life really . |