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 | This early form of life was probably a large molecule . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Life was just a little too sweet . |
| 6 | WHEN LIFE WAS JUST A CABARET FOR POISON IVY |
| 7 | ‘ To the Indians , death was a very simple thing , for life was just an appetiser . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For many years her life was almost a caricature of the daily round of the Victorian upper-class spinster . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And life was quite a struggle for everyone , it seems . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Real life was then a male preserve but Helen had no interest in the usual option of the women 's pages . |
| 14 | 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 . |