Example sentences of "to life " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cost of the war was not confined to lives , however , for it became necessary , in 1916 , for the Bank of England to issue , for the first time . |
| 2 | 999 sell-off ‘ threat to lives ’ |
| 3 | In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries this reforming enthusiasm was channelled into the foundation of Orders more oriented towards service of the whole community — the mendicant Dominicans and Franciscans were travelling preachers and the Augustinian Canons ( known as Austin Friars ) were committed to lives of pastoral service . |
| 4 | And yet , people were gradually torn from their moorings , grew used to lives in which they saw things their fathers had never done and even they had hardly expected to do . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm looking for meaning to life … ’ |
| 6 | They were tried , convicted of treason and sentenced to death , later commuted to life imprisonment . |
| 7 | A thumbnail sketch by a friend brings Fénéon to life : ‘ He did not thrust himself upon you . |
| 8 | Poor Charles brings him to life again , however , for some further plagiarisms : a nest of antique-dealers , of antic disposition , in Chatterton 's native Bristol , have passed to Charles a cache of papers which , together with the discovery of what seems to be the portrait of an adult Chatterton , persuades him that the poet lived on . |
| 9 | Dummies can come to life in books , as it seems they can do for their masters on the stage : and this miracle depends , not only on the author , but also on the people he knows , who may indeed be thought to participate in what he is , and who are likely to participate in his ventriloquism . |
| 10 | Levi 's paints actually manage to come to life as human beings in The Wrench , a less fanciful book which nevertheless claims that ‘ paints resemble us more than they do bricks . |
| 11 | The State acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and , with due regard to the equal right of life of the mother , guarantees in its laws to respect , and , as far as practicable , by its laws , defend and vindicate that right . |
| 12 | Sat waiting for it to come back to life . |
| 13 | And then everyone raised their glasses in a spontaneous salute to the happy couple , to the perfect English village , to exotic foreign ladies , to the belle cuisine , to love , to life and above all , of course , to great detectives and their creator . |
| 14 | I mean , I 'm not saying I want us to be living at the top of a tower block on some vandalized estate but there 's more to life than this , I know there is . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You 've got the right attitude to life , Dorothy . |
| 16 | Some , like chickweed and poppies , have seeds that lie dormant in the soil for long periods until the right conditions trigger them to life . |
| 17 | It was , Harry says , something of a shock to life a flowerpot and be confronted by the toad 's baleful stare . |
| 18 | Love lit her from within and the light dancing from Lucy 's radiant being brought her dancing to life . |
| 19 | Can it ever come to life again , not as a bait and hook for politicians to use , not as a shouting for soccer fans ? |
| 20 | The cartoon brings to life the humour of these famous characters . |
| 21 | If it had been carved to life all the detail would have disappeared in a dense and unreadable thicket of vegetation . |
| 22 | Alternatively , the choreographer may be inspired by a piece of music and wish to bring it to life in dance ( see page 41 ) . |
| 23 | This is an excellent example where both the overall and shorter phrase rhythms are explicitly brought to life by the dance design ( see page 68 ) . |
| 24 | Thus in his own way Ashton has reflected the composer 's own imaginative flight of fancy , firstly by following the academic structure of the score and secondly by using his choreographic imagination to bring to life Shakespeare 's mortals and immortals for ‘ of such stuff dreams are made ’ . |
| 25 | In fact nothing binds him to life . |
| 26 | It 's no accident that Svidrigailov is the only one in the novel to handle yellow paper money , just as it 's no accident that children are frightened of him and run away ‘ in indescribable terror ’ because ( so we understand in our bones ) they smell death on him , or rather the unattachment to life which defeats even Sonya Marmeladov . |
| 27 | This thought combines the antihero wanting to want and Svidrigailov trying sex , balloon-travel , good works even , in his struggle to latch on to life . |
| 28 | Profoundly yet lightly and yet again oh so generously imagined , he turns the novel 's transpersonal unsteadiness to joy for us and sheer astonishment , and its cancer-growth of rumour to life 's health through art 's freedom . |
| 29 | His attitude both to life and art , charming enough in him , when taken up by others as a general cultural ideal becomes something deadly , especially for the English , an intelligent but very lazy people , far too easily bored , and persuaded beyond argument that they are the Herrenvolk . |
| 30 | Tixier-Vignancour 's success in retricting General Salan 's punishment to life imprisonment in 1968 so angered President de Gaulle that he considered resignation . |