Example sentences of "life [pers pn] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I can now reveal that in a previous life I was the iceberg that sunk the Titanic . |
| 2 | Throughout their married life she was a tremendous support , managing their everyday affairs , helping to organise his exhibitions on both sides of the Atlantic and allowing him the freedom — one might say the luxury — to paint without interruption . |
| 3 | Throughout her life she was a regular worshipper at Llanfwrog Parish Church , even though in recent years she was largely confined to her home . |
| 4 | During the last years of her life she was the leader of a group — concerned to reform sexual behaviour and discard gender stereotyping — that published the journal Urania from 1916 . |
| 5 | Hamilton asserted that in ordinary life it was the strong arm of the law and not the strong arm of the husband which protected women from hurt or molestation . |
| 6 | As Thurlow sums him up , ‘ in everyday life he was a small insignificant man in an ordinary suit … but take off the uniform of the city solicitor and put on the running singlet and the track shoes and the transformation was amazing ’ . |
| 7 | My father worked on the railway and in my conscious life he was a supervisor , he was called an inspector , Inspector . |
| 8 | In his early life he was a keen explorer and traveller , and his photographs of life in Meiji Japan are of historical interest . |
| 9 | Throughout his life he was a committed member of the Church of Ireland , giving generously to local charities . |
| 10 | All his life he was a staunch supporter of the Bible as the ultimate truth and proclaimed this at the famous Oxford debate on evolution . |
| 11 | For most of his working life he was a maintenance engineer at Courtaulds ‘ Main Works ’ , retiring in 1962 . |
| 12 | Quite apart from his business acumen ( by the end of his commercial life he was the head of the largest clothing manufacturers — which his father had acquired earlier , originally named Freedmans — in the British dominions , as well as chairman or president of the most important trade bodies related to that industry ) he held very senior positions in such organisations as the Baron de Hirsch Institute , the Montreal Reform Club , the Montefiore Club , the Montreal Insurance Co , the Jewish Public Library , the Hebrew Educational Institute , the Canadian Jewish Committee for the Relief of War Sufferers in Europe , the Executive of the Canadian Jewish Congress , the Canadian Colonisation Committee , the Zion Athletic Club , the Zionist Organisation of Canada , and many , many more . |
| 13 | In later life he was an invalid . |
| 14 | Towards the end of his life he was an enthusiastic supporter of British involvement in the war of 1914–18 , for which he made recruiting speeches . |