Example sentences of "life was [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leavis 's reputation as a crabbed stylist and boldly innovative thinker who had been rejected by a university where he spent his entire life was largely a figment of his own mind , and so much of his post-war life was devoted to mythologising his own career that it is difficult , by now , to recognise what a conventional figure in his place and day he always was . |
| 2 | The worst single loss of civilian life was when the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force bombed McGurks bar in North Belfast , killing 15 Catholics on December 4 , 1969 . |
| 3 | This early form of life was probably a large molecule . |
| 4 | He began to see that God was not a tyrant but a loving Father ; he began to see that the Christian life was not a series of impossible demands to satisfy the whims of an unreasonable employer ; he began to see that he was welcome because of who he was , and not on the basis of what he could achieve . |
| 5 | Human surgery and medicine would always be superior to a profession where the education was less expensive , the difficulties of the courses of instruction were fewer , emoluments were smaller , and the sanctity of life was not a determinant of treatment . |
| 6 | However , her private life was not a happy one and her early marriage ended in annulment . |
| 7 | Curiously , the last sensation of his own life was not the pain of the terrible wounds inflicted by the horns of the seladang . |
| 8 | The progressive appearance of ever-higher forms of life was not the result of blindly operating natural laws , but the step-by-step unfolding of a preordained pattern that the Creator had built into the universe . |
| 9 | She must not forget the other reason why she had wished to find work here , and exile from her old life was not the main one for her presence in Vetch Street . |
| 10 | It was also generally believed that , while good works could never of themselves merit salvation , the leading of a saintly life was both a consequence and a sign of one 's elect status . |
| 11 | This new part of my life was n't a woman who would seem attractive straight-on in a passport photograph . |
| 12 | He told me that Pyke 's private life was n't a desert of austere and puritanical practices . |
| 13 | Young men still came up to the colleges , but they reminded Lewis of his own position in 1917 , when his glimpse of Oxford life was just a prelude to the horrors of battle . |
| 14 | Life was just a little too sweet . |
| 15 | WHEN LIFE WAS JUST A CABARET FOR POISON IVY |
| 16 | ‘ To the Indians , death was a very simple thing , for life was just an appetiser . |
| 17 | Even at this distance , Sarella felt her spirits lift — to be pitched back into the hurly-burly of her previous life was just the tonic she needed . |
| 18 | For many years her life was almost a caricature of the daily round of the Victorian upper-class spinster . |
| 19 | In a way , the pattern of her life was much the same as during the years following her mother 's death : she ate alone and as soon as she heard her father 's key in the door she went upstairs to her room . |
| 20 | And life was quite a struggle for everyone , it seems . |
| 21 | Suppose that the origin of life was quite a probable event , but the subsequent evolution of intelligence was exceedingly improbable , demanding a huge stroke of luck . |
| 22 | Real life was then a male preserve but Helen had no interest in the usual option of the women 's pages . |
| 23 | The absence of joy in his religious life was only the inevitable effect of his conception of God 's method of saving man ; in parting with the Lutheran truth concerning justification he parted with the springs of gladness . |