Example sentences of "life was [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Diana 's life was taking a new direction , her sister Sarah was in crisis . |
| 2 | More than that : he had himself sprung from the upper working class and naturally despised as unclean the lower working class : his life was made a misery by their proximity , and he longed for them to be evicted or murder each other in one of their not infrequent rows . |
| 3 | The aim of his life was to remain a scholar and a teacher while he was a bishop . |
| 4 | I have always regretted the fact that the unhappiest part of my life was spent a few miles away from Riggindale , and I never visited it . |
| 5 | Tyndale 's main problem for the rest of his life was to find a base on the Continent where there was a printing press , where its use by him would be tolerated by the authorities , and from which his translations and publications could be sent to England , either through sales at the great annual book fair at Frankfurt or by river and sea , hidden among the goods of friendly merchants . |
| 6 | We knew that if Thomas survived the cancer his only chance of a halfway normal life was to find a cure for A-T . |
| 7 | ( A friend of my youth held that his main aim in life was to become a dirty old man : an aim which one can now see was almost enlightened ! ) |
| 8 | ‘ My most important ambition in life was to have a new sports car every year , things like this . ’ |
| 9 | It so happened that the very train that ended Mr Cubbage 's life was carrying the delayed mail and in one of the mail bags was a letter from Coleen agreeing to Mr Cubbage 's proposal of marriage and saying that she was coming home to her lover . |
| 10 | Doctor Who , though , was not going to be a straight children 's serial , since its main aim in life was to capture the family audience between Grandstand and Juke Box Jury . |
| 11 | And finally , it brought on that rich cast of wooden-topped rustics , the Starkadders , with Aunt Ada Doom in the star part , not to speak of the simpleton whose main pleasure in life was doing the washing up , or as he called it , clettering the dishes with his liddle mop . |
| 12 | The traditional and most important essence of life was obtaining a good education , which to the black immigrants was the key to success , a way out of the ruck . |
| 13 | Certainly the Mendoza family 's ambition in life was to beat the O'Briens . |