Example sentences of "life was [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interviewers always stressed the despair , that life was under a cloud , but the comradeship of the campaign and the fun we had along the way was just as real . |
| 2 | The other cause of the present crisis was Ben , a man of few principles , whose only view of life was through the bottom of a tankard , riddled as he was with guilt and arrogance . |
| 3 | Thy life was on the open deck — |
| 4 | Whereby you know going back a bit it was quite the accepted thing to stand and have a chat for ten , twenty minutes and er life was at a slower pace . |
| 5 | He felt , when he woke the next morning , that his life was at an end-a complete disaster . |
| 6 | They tell us that a stonemason 's third marriage at 57 was his happiest ; or that a retired doctor found ‘ life was for a time difficult ’ for lack of ‘ any special hobbies . ’ |
| 7 | Life was for the living and Rich seized it . |
| 8 | One of the ways she visualized life was as a swirling , unpredictable tide of confusion which swept you along helpless , bumping against rocks , trying to snatch at branches , bits of wreckage , anything that might help to keep you afloat for , if you did n't watch out , the waters would suck you down and close over your head . |
| 9 | My father 's involvement in a plot on Hitler 's life was as a German . |
| 10 | IF we want to understand how later life was in the past through direct experience , we have three possible sources . |
| 11 | Kevin was a politician and of course his life was in the States , but had n't he said only the night before , ‘ My heart 's here in Ireland , Rose . ’ |
| 12 | Sally-Anne sometimes thought that her career as a housemaid had been sparked off by that remark as much as by anything else — that and discovering how hard life was in the East End , and her determination to write about it from the inside , rather than as a privileged outsider looking in . |
| 13 | It 's not only in the dialogue that Harper Lee expresses the tension between the blacks and whites , but all through the book in her description of where people live , where they work , the churches they go to and her detailed description of the court room and how the black community sit on the balcony above , away from the whites , she gives us a vivid idea of the way life was in the 1930 's and sets the scene well . |