Example sentences of "of life [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A herd of cattle may seem an odd place to look for the meaning of life but it fits neatly with current American pop- psychology : no doubt these urban liberals have packed copies of Robert Bly 's ‘ Iron Jack ’ in their saddlebags . |
| 2 | It is when the physical phenomenon of soil erosion affects people so that they have to respond and adapt their mode of life that it becomes also a social phenomenon . |
| 3 | It 's also a fact of life that it hurts and if anybody says it does n't , I do n't believe them . |
| 4 | As religion is the whole way of life so it affects individual social relationships across the ethnic boundaries thereby leading to Pakistanis ’ encapsulation' ( pp. 168–9 ) . |
| 5 | It was hard not to think of life as it had been back in 1986 , or in Terry 's and Tom 's case , 1985 . |
| 6 | To this end he set out to give a ‘ factual picture of life as it comes at a boy in the Merchant Service ’ , offering details of the kind of people he would meet and ‘ some of the problems and emotional conflicts he would have to face … ’ |
| 7 | That is a fact of life and it influences unemployment . |
| 8 | At all events , when the innovative literary theory derived from structuralism began to arrive about twenty years ago it found actual or potential fissures in the form of life and it sought to enlarge and penetrate them . |
| 9 | Work is ‘ split off ’ very often from the rest of life and it has been so since the beginnings of industrialisation . |