Example sentences of "life [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's affecting lives tremendously . |
| 2 | She said she did n't think money ought to stop people living , actually living : making their lives little when they could be big . |
| 3 | Since polite elements represented a small segment of the population , the group of poets here being identified is those whose lives most represent the experiences of the great majority of people in eighteenth century England . |
| 4 | Shakespeare called the islands ‘ the still vex 'd Bermoothes ’ and the sinister legend of the islands at the edge of the world where ships disappeared lives on . |
| 5 | Taras dies but his prophesy lives on in a resplendent welter of organ ( now assertively prominent ) , chiming timpani and bells . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's always a chance , but not one I 'd want to bank our lives on . ’ |
| 7 | Yet even peasants , bounded through their lives mostly by their immediate vicinity , could sometimes travel further afield , whether pursuing a legal claim , like the Mitry group , or about their lords ' business , like the men of St-Germain-des- Prés who owned transport-services between Anjou and the Paris neighbourhood . |
| 8 | Mr Clarke knows how serious this dispute is but he is prepared to risk people 's lives rather than talk . ’ |
| 9 | An explanation for this negative attitude towards the union lies in the way the women identified themselves in terms of their domestic lives rather than as paid workers . |
| 10 | In making these statements the church is not standing aloof from the unconverted instructing them on how they ought to live their lives rather the church is speaking to itself , holding before all its members the id the ideal of what we believe God has taught in his word about the way in which people ought to live . |
| 11 | Local villagers are prepared to sacrifice their lives rather than move to the inadequate , drought-prone resettlement areas ; many who moved to the resettlement areas in past years are now returning to their threatened villages . |
| 12 | When we are young , we assume that if only we can get the circumstances of our lives right , then we will automatically be happy . |
| 13 | Now they find themselves alone in later years and often have to rebuild their lives right from scratch . |
| 14 | It means that we bring our disordered lives right into marriage more than we do in any other kind of relationship . |
| 15 | You ca n't run two lives properly . |
| 16 | No wonder women are treated so badly in the world when even an organisation such as Amnesty judges them in terms of their lives only meaning something if they can ‘ belong ’ to a man . |
| 17 | According to this book , contributions of goodness have been made to the Created God , albeit unknowingly , by the countless thousands of individuals who , through many centuries have deliberately lived their lives constantly expanding , supporting and practising those human traits universally acknowledged as virtues . |
| 18 | In one sense you could say that we begin our lives in the wheelchair of the womb ; we begin our lives literally by being carried around . |
| 19 | ‘ I was glad to hear that the children are well and happy — and having the time of their lives down here in Devon . |
| 20 | However , their positions are threatened and the impermanence and insecurity of their lives suddenly revealed when the ‘ hinds ’ and farmers begin to demand reform of the bondager system . |
| 21 | Are their lives less precious ? — |
| 22 | Does the fact that they are serving sentences made their lives less valuable ? |
| 23 | It is these basic measures which can make a difference to saving lives all over the world . |
| 24 | ‘ He was going to introduce changes to the club which would have made your lives much less comfortable . ’ |
| 25 | As I said God did n't leave it like that , because God did in Jesus Christ what we could never do for ourselves , you see you and I at times we felt that I , I want to be different from that and we , and we pushed against one of these pressures and so that we pushed it out a wee bit , but as we 've pushed there it 's come back in somewhere else and as we 've stopped pushing and we 've gone to another bit so that first that has become , has come back as it was and we spend our lives perhaps running around trying to get the circle back again , it 's an impossible task , we ca n't do it , we spend our whole lives in the frustration things and we , and we start blaming on things , if only that situation was different , if only those circumstances were different , but it 's far , far , far more fundamental than that and we 've got ta come to the place where we say well I ca n't do any thing about it , I 've tried my hardest , but I ca n't do it , and that 's where God comes and says hang on a minute I 'll do it for you and that 's what he did in Jesus Christ , he did for us what we could n't do for ourselves , the bible tells us that Christ is the perfect image of God , it 's in Colossians one fifteen and just er full verses further on in verse nineteen it says in him all the fullness of God , in Jesus , all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell and so in Christ God 's son , God dealt with the problem of sin which had caused that twisting and that warping and that distortion , your life and in my life , that which spoiled his image in us he created us in his image , but you 've only got to look at people today , you 've only got to look at ourselves , see , where is the image of God , is that what God is like , jealous , filled with anger , bitterness , envy , is that what God is like , unclean thinking , is that what God is like that 's not his image , but he created us in his image perfect and what Jesus Christ did on the cross , is to restore that image , that original image in you and me , to recreate us in the image of God , so in |
| 26 | During the rest hours and at night , he had turned his face to the wall and cried over their shared youth and all the bonds of sun and blowing grass and long evenings full of the sound of tumbling rooks that tied their lives together . |
| 27 | But in spite of the bumps in the beginning he kept coming back to my little home studio and that 's how the second half of our lives together began . |
| 28 | Christian marriage is no less than the unity of two people , living out the reality of Christ 's coming , death and resurrection in their lives together . |
| 29 | ‘ The Nightingale ’ provides a record of one of the evening walks shared by Coleridge and the Wordsworths which had been so much a part of their lives together . |
| 30 | You love him , he 's kind to animals , and is never more than half an hour late , but is that a good basis on which to plan your lives together ? |